Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Quilter
Generative circuit board layout for PCB designers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Quilter launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1IM
This is a little toy project of mine that lets you simulate digital logic graphs. It was inspired by Minecraft's Redstone and the Piet esolang. It's got some serious drawbacks-- you write circuits as PNGs and simulate them with a Python interface. It's slow to run and slow to experiment with. And it is certainly difficult to use for people with any kind of color blindness. But despite that, I hope this can still be a fun toy!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build Fab-ready Custom PCBs with one prompt
23d ago · trycherryblossom.com · its alternatives →
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EasyCircuit▲178Hardware prototyping, as simple as vibe-coding
Jul 2026 · easycircuit.app · its alternatives →
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- 8QM
2017 · quiltdata.com · its alternatives →
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- 10Scratchboard▲146
Create, simulate, and collaborate on digital circuits
2025 · scratchboard.io · its alternatives →
- 11AP
2021 · tool.graphics · its alternatives →
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- 13BC
2017 · snapeda.com · its alternatives →
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Convert a Photoshop design to a layered Sketch file for free
2017 · its alternatives →
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I built ChipBuilder to make computer architecture more approachable through interactive puzzles. You start with basic logic gates like AND, OR, and NOT, then gradually combine them into adders, multiplexers, memory, an ALU, and eventually a complete CPU. Once you've built the hardware, you can write assembly programs that run on the processor you created. The game is inspired by courses like Nand2Tetris, but everything runs directly in the browser with a visual circuit editor, simulations, and progressively harder challenges.
Jul 2026 · select.supply · its alternatives →
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Fuser Apps▲203Vibecode apps, sites & games on everyone's favorite canvas
Jul 2026 · fuser.studio · its alternatives →
- 17IM
Hey HN, I want to share a personal project: I made a tiny pen-plotted book for my wife. I did everything myself—drawings (with some help from Midjourney), plotting, cutting, and binding. I even used a 3D printer to make a helper tool. It's absolutely over-engineered, but I enjoyed it a lot. Multi-disciplinary projects, especially those with a physical output, are a lot of fun for me. The post covers the process in detail, but if you're interested in anything specific, let me know. Cheers!
2025 · muffinman.io · its alternatives →
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ProtoFlow▲80AI-powered PCB design tool for engineers and hardware teams
Jul 2026 · protoflow.ai · its alternatives →
- 19ID
3D printing is such a fascinating field of technology, so a couple months ago, I decided to take a deep dive and learn how they actually work! This took me to one of my very first PCB projects, a small, cheap, 3D printer motherboard. While it's not the most cutting edge board, I learned a lot and I fully documented my process designing it (https://github.com/KaiPereira/Cheetah-MX4-Mini/blob/master/J...), so other people can learn from my mistakes! It runs off of an STM32H743 MCU, has 4 TMC stepsticks with UART/SPI configurations,…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Generate images in bulk using ChatGPT's new image model
2025 · table.studio · its alternatives →
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LayerGen AI▲90Generate print-ready D&D miniatures from text or image
Apr 2026 · layergen.ai · its alternatives →
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Generate beautiful patterns for everything using AI
2023 · its alternatives →
- 24IM
Inspired by games like Turing Complete/Virtual Circuit Board/Logic World, I tried to make a mix of aseprite and wiredworld/wired-logic, the idea being the user can build a digital circuit using a "fullstack" pixelart creation workflow. The circuit is just an image. The primitives are (i) connected wires which have undefined, 0 or 1 state during simulation (displayed brighter or darker in function of the state) and (ii) NANDs, which are little pixel triangles. During simulation the user can interact with any wire by clicking on it, toggling its state, which is cool for messing…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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