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About
KiCad is a free and open-source electronics design automation (EDA) suite. It features schematic capture, integrated circuit simulation, printed circuit board (PCB) layout, 3D rendering, and plotting/data export to numerous formats. KiCad also includes a high-quality component library featuring thousands of symbols, footprints, and 3D models. KiCad has minimal system requirements and runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Required configuration
Recommends: a screen with its shortest side at least 1920 px, at least 2048 MiB of memory. Supports: offline use only.
Additional information
Project
- Developer
- The KiCad Developers
- Publisher
- Seth Hillbrand
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later (free software)What this license lets you do
- Homepage
- www.kicad.org
- Languages
- 42 languages
Install
- Available via
- Flatpak · Snap · AppImage · Arch Linux (5) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux (2) · Solus · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
All 18 packagings
Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, AppImage, AUR (Git build), AUR (Hq build), AUR (Nightly build), AUR (Nightly · Rpm build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Void Linux (32bit build), Solus, Gentoo (Candidate build)
- Flatpak sandbox
- Wide access
Runs in a sandbox, but a broad part of it is open — typical for tools that need to manage your files or system. It shows what the app is able to do, not what it does.
What it can access
- Reads and changes your whole home folder
- Reads and changes files in /media
- Reads and changes files in /run/media
- Uses the internet
- Uses the older X11 display system, which doesn't isolate windows from each other
About this data
- Sources
- 23 independent sources agree
- Catalog data as of
- October 12, 2026
How each source lists it (18)
| Source | Name | Version | Built by | License | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flathub (Flatpak) | KiCad | 10.0.7 | Official build | GPL-3.0-or-later | An EDA suite for schematic and circuit board design |
| Snap Store | kicad | 9.0.7 | — | GPL-3.0-or-later | Electronic schematic and PCB design software |
| AppImage | KiCad | v5.1.4 | — | — | Electronic Design Automation suite |