LibrePCB
Create electronics the easy way.
A free, cross-platform EDA suite for drawing schematics and designing printed circuit boards with a strong semantic library system.
About the Project
Why use this?
LibrePCB is designed to make PCB development straightforward without sacrificing professional structure. It provides schematic capture, board layout, 3D preview, fabrication export, and a library system where symbols, footprints, and 3D models are organized semantically rather than as disconnected graphics.
Engineers choose LibrePCB when they value clean project files, version-control-friendly workflows, and simple automation. Its human-readable file format works well with Git, while librepcb-cli enables headless checks and manufacturing-data export in CI pipelines. It is particularly attractive to makers, students, and small engineering teams that want a modern, low-friction EDA tool. [79]
Key Features
- Schematic editor and PCB board editor
- Semantic, reusable part-library management
- Human-readable, version-control-friendly project files
- 3D board preview and PCB fabrication-service integration
- Headless automation with
librepcb-cli - Offline-capable, cross-platform, and available in 15 languages
- Reference / Repo
- https://github.com/LibrePCB/LibrePCB
- Tool / Hosted
- https://librepcb.org/
- Replaces / Alternative to
- Autodesk Eagle, Altium Designer
- Free layer
- open-source