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[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 CEO Computer Networking Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Altium Designer the ultimate PCB CAD" June 3, 2022 5.0 Because of the ease of use and almost level learning curve, we were able to output project jobs faster than previously expected. Pros Ease of use was excellent, learning curve was good and manipulation of components a breeze compared to our previous PCB design CAD. Three updates within the year we have been using Altium Cons Recurring licensing cost was high and we will reduce licensing after first year. Have not any issues that are a problem. Review Source IM Ivan M. Electronics Manufacturing and Qualification Manager Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Designer Review from Admin perspective" December 20, 2023 5.0 Pros Its a pretty strong tool that's backwards compatible with solidworks and other programs. Even at a basic level, it's very strong and easy to use. Cons When maintaining a company component library, its difficult to revert components back to a previous revision. This was a single case for us when a user began making random changes on components without notification to the team, causing layout problems. That made it difficult for a quick reversion back to the working components. Review Source Shamal J. Student Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Altium Designer for an Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering Undergraduate " June 14, 2019 5.0 Pros As an engineering undergraduate we have to design lots of printed circuit boards. When I am using Altium designer I could easily design foot print according to the component I chose to use. In altium designer we can easily import the changes we made on the schematic . If we did any changes on the PCB design layout which are not on the schematic those changes also can be export to the schematic. We can customize the design rules such as track width, pad sizes, clearance and etc as we needed. That will help us to have the perfect PCB. When its comes to routing, auto-routing option in the altium is perfect. We only need to adjust routing rules according to our work then altium will do the routing part. We can easily generate files that are need to print PCB for an example if need to generate gerber files we only need to go the option that let us create gerber files and select the required layers and formats. Cons If you are new to PCB designing it will be little bit difficult to learn altium at the first place with the time we will get familiar to the altium designer. If you looking for footprint for free in online sources it will little bit difficult. Review Source JL Jonatan L. R and D Engineer Antennas Wireless Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Altium - the number one choice for PCBA design" March 21, 2024 4.0 Pros The shared workspace with my colleagues all around the world and the possibility to share designs with folks that do not have Altium Designer on any good viewer installed. I also really appreciate the Gerber Compare (I guess that it is a part of 365). Cons The revision handling is not always straightforward in Altium Designer, I would like it to be clearly stated (maybe at the end of the file name) which version it is. Review Source AB Andrea B. Electronic Engineer Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The power of Altium" September 1, 2022 5.0 At our university we offer Altium as a didactic tool for learning PCB development. At a professional level, Altium gives us all the features necessary to create professional PCBs. Pros Altium is a professional and complete software. After over 20 years of use I find that compared to many other similar tools, it turns out to be one of the most intuitive and easy to use. All features are at hand. Cons One of the advantages of Altium is the well-structured guide that allows you to find what you are looking for quickly. If you have any difficulties, you can contact the support who will answer you in a very short time. Review Source aJ atefeh J. Hardware developer Medical Devices Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "How can be improve d" September 27, 2023 4.0 I am satisfied with but, it takes time and slower than the last versions, I like the possibilities which all can work and save on cloud, but hard to have a lot of bugs on it. Pros Use in Cloud, easy Access for all and uniq library Cons create component in library takes time a lot and not happen a lit of errors and bug like now Review Source DT Donna T. Sr. PCB Designer Computer Hardware Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Altium Review" December 19, 2023 4.0 It works with what we need, We used Protel for many years, Altium is much better Pros Ease of use, imports old designs easily. Can easily massage date to programs we need it for. Cons It changes with each upgrade. Have to make sure It is still doing things like it used to Review Source kN kenneth N. Hardware Engineer Automotive Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Solid Product that does everything you need with version control" October 19, 2023 5.0 Pros I love the version control. It makes organizing different projects and revisions very easy. The BOM feature is very convenient in estimating BOM cost and the way the BOM can check for part cost online make it even better. The large library of manufacturer parts already included makes adding new parts to your library easy. Cons I think something very difficult is trying to import footprints and libraries from online sources such as snapeda or ultra librarian. Every company has their own way of doing it and I believe if altium enforced a strict streamline way of importing, this would be to their advantage and to the advantage of the customer. Review Source YT Yathisha T. Design engineer Defense & Space Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best tool for the buyers and designers having complex and mid complex designs." July 20, 2023 5.0 One of the best tool which is available for the easy of use and good customer support. Pros Flow and the easy of use for the beginners as well as the designers. Cons Documentations to be imported and events to be made for the updates or improvements released for the product. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Student Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very connected " January 26, 2023 4.0 Pros When adding component, often, footprint and schematic can be downloaded automatically from the web. The version management is nice, and I appreciate warnings that prevents to do things that may cause trouble (for instance when renaming a component before having saved the modification). Cons I didn't found it easy to add component's footprint and schematic, from external lib file. (Import with snap Eda, and automatic download from the web are fine). Review Source 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 ## 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.