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About
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. Core features and goals of the Avogadro project include: - Open-source, distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license - Cross-platform, with nightly builds on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows - An intuitive interface designed to be useful to whole community - Fast and efficient, embracing the latest technologies - Extensible, making extensive use of a plugin architecture - Flexible, supporting a range of chemical data formats and packages
Changelog
Highlights - New plugin system will load menu commands, input generators, file formats, energy and electrostatic models, including installation of any required libraries and tools using [`pixi`](https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/installation/) on Mac and Windows. (Highly recommended on Linux too) - New plugin install window and index, including over 20 plugins (and growing) - Faster geometry optimizations ~50% faster on all models, and up to 5-10x faster on large molecules using UFF. - Added a faster protocol for using external energy models, including ML potentials, XTB, and more. - Added a simple molecular dynamics mode to the AutoOpt tool, including with energy models. - Improved ORCA input generator, including syntax highlighting
Additional information
- Developer
- The Avogadro team
- License
- BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-only
- Category
- Science
- Size
- 80.5 MB
- Homepage
- https://avogadro.cc/
- Available via
- Flathub (Flatpak), AppImage, Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE
- Catalog data as of
- 9/3/2026 (dataset snapshot date — per-app update dates aren't tracked yet)