ChemCanvas

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Chemical structure drawing tool

A very intuitive 2D chemical drawing tool. You can quickly draw molecules, reactions with modern bond and arrow types, large set of templates, color support. It also supports many modern file formats like Marvin MRV, ChemDraw CDXML etc.

  • Supports modern file formats like Marvin MRV, Chemdraw CDXML.
  • Export to PNG, SVG, and Editable SVG.
  • Many bond types including wavy bond, Cis/Trans, Bold double, Any Bond etc.
  • Search and get compound structures from PubChem.
  • Aromaticity detection and add delocalization ring.
  • Fetch structures from PubChem database.

Details for ChemCanvas

License
  • GPL-3.0-or-later

Last updated
  • 30 October 2025 - latest/stable

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