# Page 5 | Altium Develop Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 5 - Is Altium Develop the right Engineering CAD solution for you? Explore 181 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/175058/Altium-Designer/reviews --- Altium Develop 4.6 (181) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 5 - Reviews of Altium Develop ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 101-125 of 181 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Electrical Engineer Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designed: Simply the best at this price point" December 27, 2018 4.0 Pros The 3D CAD integration has been an absolutely killer feature for my company. Several projects literally could not have gone to market without it. The competitive edge that it gives my company to design clever, compact designs has effectively paid for the Altium license several times over. As a product, Altium Designer is unbeatable without paying 3-10x as much. Possibly much more, I didn't explore that market extensively once it became clear the wealth of features that Altium Designer offered. Cons Altium, as a company makes me wonder about Altium Designer's long term prospects. The company has made several questionable market decisions in the past 5 years that makes me uncertain if their upper management really understands how their users use their product. Ah, well. They're not the first company to have this problem. Review Source MF Mohammad F. Embedded Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designer" February 8, 2022 5.0 Altium made my work easier and I have learnt a lot of ways and about features that can ease the work. Pros Huge range of features, manage multiple projects at once, supports various plugins. Cons Heavy usage of processor, require good graphics Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Airlines/Aviation Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The best collaborative ECAD platform!" October 24, 2023 5.0 Pros What I like most about the Altium 365 is how easy it is to use the software and upload my files to the server. It's great to be able to easily view and share my projects wherever I am. Cons Despite being a great tool (the best on the market, in my opinion), the price is well above other competitors. Review Source KG Kris G. Hardware Design Engineer Industrial Automation Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designer Value" December 20, 2023 4.0 Pros It includes quite a few tools in the package and so far has been meeting our needs for schematic and layout design. Cons The third party simulation tools do not pickup the Altium constraints. They have to be redone in these tools and it is very time consuming. Reason for choosing Altium Develop Lower cost and better tool integration. However, these benefits start to diminish as we get into the 12+ layer high speed designs. Review Source JR Jeff R. Electrical Engineer Industrial Automation Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A Comprehensive Time Saver" September 26, 2023 4.0 The teams at my company are more able to design and integrate extremely precise products, and Altium 365 streamlines the whole design process. Pros The integration of mechanical and electrical design, in conjunction with the streamlining of efforts between members of teams greatly reduces the effort required on everyone's part to deploy products. Cons Getting multi users used to Altium 365 was somewhat difficult, but this goes with any new product really. Review Source KB Kenneth B. R&D engineer Oil & Energy Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Using Altium 365" August 31, 2023 4.0 I can't do my job without Altium now. I appreciate the help I get from your specialists Pros There is not much that Altium can't do when making and sustaining a product. Cons It is a tad confusing and I still have difficulty figuring out how to solve my problems Review Source NH NHU H. Embedded Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designer is a professional software for circuit design" June 14, 2021 4.0 I have designed the schematic, simulated my circuit, as well as created the PCB drawing, designed a library of bushings and pins, and created the 3D product. Pros It provides a lot of tools for precise and intuitive drawing. It's full-featured, great computational processing. Cons This software takes quite a while to get used to and be able to master it. Reason for choosing Altium Develop Because it's very professional and quite popular Review Source Aruna J. Research assistant Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Professional PCB designing tool" July 27, 2019 5.0 Have lot of features. Since most of the companies use Altium as their main PCB development tool finding footprints for more recent components is very easy. Support industrial standards. Supports cad files and generated cad files are compatible with Solidworks Cad tool. Pros Great PCB designing tool with lot of features. Supports custom cad files and foot prints. Online and offline tools available for library conversions for PCB component. Support simulations and complex designs. The best thing is it can generate 3D cad file of the final PCB where it can be used to make the enclosures. More professional and customisable. Cons It takes longer time for first start of the application, and consumes lot of processing power. Therefore it discourages simple edits in PCB. Review Source hH hussein H. graphic designer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "review" July 31, 2022 4.0 Pros so powerful software to design a product from models to PCB... Cons expensive prices but for the feature provided it's so good Review Source AH Abdulbasit H. Electronic Engineer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Altium for the best designs" July 6, 2023 5.0 It’s been quite nice. At first it looked daunting but Altium also have ready made tutorials that explain everything that’s needed. I don’t regret using Altium. Pros As an electronic engineer, I appreciate how Altium gives me easy access to components from so many companies and then helps my check my design for mistakes, as well as making it easy to create those designs. Cons It can be a bit complicated, but once you get used to it, it’s fine. Review Source Thushara S. Student Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designer is advanced PCB designing tool. " September 21, 2019 3.0 Overall Altium is one of best PCB design software I've ever used. Pros Altium Designer has thousand of advanced features to design PCBs. I really like the ability to make files of the PCB to send online PCB manufacturing service . Altium supports 3D view and we can clearly see how to fit PCB on my CAD design. Altium has thousands of flexible design rules and auto routing options. Cons Altium has few bugs when exporting designs. instead of that default components library has only very few essential components. Even I find component footprints or library from internet I have to go through number of steps to add them to Altium every time. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Project Development Manager Construction Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium PCB design" January 1, 2019 3.0 Overall I have been satisfied but I think Altium's old model Protel was much better. I used to use that in 2003 and that was better than today's version. Pros Altium has got a huge collection of libraries for PCBs. Almost all the parts which you can buy from Digikey or Mouser, their footprints are present in Altium. I have also been able to customize the footprints to my own needs. Infact, I have made some footprints all from scratch. That is a very powerful feature. Similarly when making the schematic, the 3D model of all the parts is also visible which helps alot in visualizing the part I am gonna use. Cons The autorouting in Altium is completely broken. It takes multiple sessions to get completed and most of the time it stop at 90% with tens of vias. Sometimes even with a wire width of 200um and isolation distance of 150um, the autorouter finds it difficult to make a track for SMDs. Therefore, for a PCB with parts more than 200, it becomes almost impossible to make single sided PCB. Though it works OK for double sided PCB. Review Source HN Howard N. Sr. Electrical Engineer Defense & Space Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designer" December 19, 2023 4.0 It has overall been a very positive experience Pros Ease of use, More performance and Documentation capabilities. Cons Component Design and Import of Components or Designs Reason for choosing Altium Develop Most powerful PC-Based tool for the cost. Switched from [Eagle](https://www.capterra.com/p/40969/Eagle/) Better tool than many of the competing tools that even are more expensive than Altium. Review Source KNKF Kariyakarawanage Nipun Kanishka F. electronics engineer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "really well design softwear " October 13, 2023 5.0 feeling really ease working with software , free trainings and webinars are really help full. Pros version control is the best, also component foot print wizard help lot to create foot prints Cons price is bit high compared to other products in the market. Review Source Terran G. Student Research Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great High end software for PCB design" May 2, 2019 5.0 I think it is the best software package available for PCB design. Highly recommend if it's within budget. Pros The amount of features packed into Altium Designer is almost more than imaginable. The software is great for people who know what they are doing. Cons The learning curve that comes with Altium is a bit steep. Because of how many features and advanced options in Altium, it would take months, if not years to feel like a master at Altium. Review Source AC Andres C. Director Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great overall tool" September 29, 2022 5.0 It is still overall the best PCB Layout tool there is. Pros Once you get to know it it's the fastest tool to get any layout done. Cons Some of the import features could be impreoved. Reason for choosing Altium Develop More compelling product Review Source CP Cesar P. Senior Power systems Engineer Design Used the software for: 2+ years ### "altium 365 the way to go" August 31, 2023 5.0 extremely happy to have altium 365 for collaborative design team experience Pros very intuitive and easy to use and enabled highly functional collaborative design activity between engineering design peers. Cons Sometimes slow to load, specially if there are many task assigned for review and feedback Review Source SSR Satyaveer Singh R. PhD Candidate Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Review of Altium" July 2, 2024 5.0 Overall, I enjoyed working and learning this software. I have manufactured 2 PCBs till date for my work and more then 70-80 PCBs in total in our lab. Pros We can manufacture a working product using this software. Cons Help for learning newer version is less available. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer PCB Design Engineer Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designer, top 3 pcb design tools" February 17, 2019 4.0 Altium Designer continues improving year after year. Still behind of representative on the pcb design end but far more beyond on the schematich side. Altium is by far easier to use and more intuitive that representative and I would recommend Altium to Engineers that want to design an schematic and do a layout without having to interact with different tools. Pros How the menus look and how easy is to set up the rules for design.The shapes and keepouts definitions are year after year better and better. Cons Still can find some bugs, and it crashes more than its competitors. Not being able to add the drill table on the ODB++ except you exported into another mechanical layer. Review Source TW Tyler W. Electronics Engineer II Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Software for Managing Engineering Team" October 3, 2023 5.0 Pros I enjoy the ability to seamlessly interact with my teammates on the design and implementation of our projects. Cons Sometimes the setup and some of the release documentation can be a little cumbersome to use Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Embedded Firmware Engineer Industrial Automation Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Awesome software, missing a key feature" January 8, 2019 5.0 Pros Altium is fully integrated and allows a user to go from schematic capture to PCB design quickly, without changing software suites. Cons I hate that dimensions in Altium dont drive, like they do in solidworks Review Source WH Wolfgang H. Applikationsingenieur Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Naja - es gibt bessere Software" August 19, 2022 3.0 Gute Software mit Handhabungsmängeln und nicht erreichbarem Support. Nur für Anwender geeignet die einigermaßen gut mit der englischen Sprache vertraut sind. Pros Altium Designer ist recht umfangreich und man kann sehr viel damit machen. 3D und Anbindung an Solid Works sind sehr gut. Wenn man sich eingearbeitet hat (dazu braucht man Zeit und Nerven und man sollte sich diese auch nehmen) kommt man recht zügig vorwärts. Mit Tasturkürzeln zu arbeiten sollte man sich angewöhnen sonst macht es keinen Spaß. Cons Support ist grauenhaft da dieser fast nicht erreichbar ist. Man kann sich 1000 Videos ansehen die alle das Thema tangieren wenn man viel Zeit hat, dann findet man auch eine Lösung. Wenn man den Support (Hartnäckigkeit ist gefordert) dann doch mal erreicht, dann ist der sehr kompetent. Einen deutschen Support zu bekommen ist noch interessanter, geschweige denn eine brauchbare Anleitung oder gar ein Menü in Deutsch. Das sollte für eine moderne Software eigentlich kein Problem mehr darstellen. Konstruktionen mit komplexen Geometrien macht man besser in anderer Software. Ich vermisse die Funktionalität von CAD Werkzeugen. Bei Altium wird die einfache Handhabung ohne Kommandozeile angepriesen. Die angebliche Benutzerfreundlichkeit über Bildschirmmenüs erschließt sich mir aber nicht wirklich. Auf ein Minium reduziert sind die Menüs, dafür darf man dann aber in Untermenüs suchen die sich durchaus von Version zu Version unterscheiden können. Handbücher werden dann schnell obsolet. Review Source DP Divyani P. RFIC ENGINEER Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Harness Design" April 26, 2023 5.0 its amazing with new version. can open to files and properties and edit the rest accordingly. Also i liked the filter option. which makes it user friendly to select anything they want. Pros The new feature of harness design is excellent. exploring more on it right now. Cons so far the library is little bit not that friendly or may be I am not that accustom to it much.. well looking forward to attend seminar net month and see what can I explore more.. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Development Engineering Manager Biotechnology Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium - defacto standard, pricing inflation" September 23, 2020 4.0 Overall, Altium has helped push the industry forward. At it's core, it's a tool that does the job. However, as they've become more prevalent, the actual value they provide relative to competitors has leveled off. Pros Altium has become a defacto standard in embedded electronics design. Every vendor, customer, and partner of ours has Altium Designer in their toolset. The product functions well enough for most required ee cad tasks. Cons the suite of products that you can buy beyond the standard schematic capture, layout, and routing, creates ala carte options that nickel and dime you to an annoying degree. Review Source VR Valentina R. Electronic Engineer Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "a little review" July 4, 2024 5.0 Pros I can design not only on my workstation, but on every computer Cons Nothing yet. It's a bit complicated because I'm still learning how to use Altium, but everything is going well Review Source ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox. Talk to a Capterra advisor for free and get results within 15 minutes.