Serial Studio alternatives

12 Windows apps in the same category as Serial Studio, ranked by what they have in common and by popularity.

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  Stellarium

  A free open source planetarium for your computer.

  Open source 26.3 118K ↓ ★ 10.1K science
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  KiCad

  A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite

  Open source 10.0.8 129.6K ↓ ★ 3.1K electronics, engineering
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  Quarto

  Quarto® is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc

  Open source 1.11.9 48.2K ↓ ★ 6.1K
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  Qalculate!

  A highly versatile desktop calculator, with support for units, physical constants, uncertainty propagation, symbolic calculations, etc.

  Open source 5.13.2 50.3K ↓ ★ 2.7K engineering, science, utility
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  JASP

  A Fresh Way to Do Statistics

  Open source 0.99.0 12.2K ↓ ★ 1K graph, science
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  OpenChrom

  Open Source software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy

  Open source 1.6.40 25.8K ↓ ★ 135 science
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  Klayout - Layout Viewer And Editor

  KLayout is a GDS and OASIS file viewer.

  Open source 0.30.13 19.3K ↓ ★ 1.2K development, electronics, engineering
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  ghidra

  a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework

  Open source 12.2-20261016 246.8K ↓ development, engineering
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  scilab

  Scilab is free and open source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.

  Open source 2025.0.0 28.6K ↓ science
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  Avogadro

  Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.

  Open source 1.2.0 5.5K ↓ ★ 79 embedded, science
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  pyzo

  The Interactive editor for scientific Python

  Open source 4.22.0 6.9K ↓ ★ 320 development, science
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  gnuplot

  Interactive function plotting utility

  Other licence 6.0 patchlevel 4 3.7K ↓ graph

Comparison

App	Licence	Version	Updated	GitHub stars	Chocolatey downloads
Serial Studio	Proprietary	4.2.1	November 7, 2026	7.3K	—
Stellarium	Open source	26.3	September 28, 2026	10.1K	118K
KiCad	Open source	10.0.8	November 11, 2026	3.1K	129.6K
Quarto	Open source	1.11.9	November 2, 2026	6.1K	48.2K
Qalculate!	Open source	5.13.2	October 11, 2026	2.7K	50.3K
JASP	Open source	0.99.0	October 21, 2026	1K	12.2K
OpenChrom	Open source	1.6.40	November 6, 2026	135	25.8K
Klayout - Layout Viewer And Editor	Open source	0.30.13	November 5, 2026	1.2K	19.3K
ghidra	Open source	12.2-20261016		—	246.8K
scilab	Open source	2025.0.0	April 30, 2025	—	28.6K
Avogadro	Open source	1.2.0	November 5, 2021	79	5.5K
pyzo	Open source	4.22.0	August 5, 2026	320	6.9K
gnuplot	Other licence	6.0 patchlevel 4	December 24, 2025	—	3.7K