Launching today
KiCad Viewer
View KiCad projects and review PCB pull requests visually
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View KiCad projects and review PCB pull requests visually
1 follower
View KiCad projects on iPhone, iPad, and Android: schematics, PCB layers, BOM, 3D, straight from your KiCad files: no converting or preprocessing needed. The app lets you review pull requests visually: see the changes, not the text diff. To help with debugging, you can cross-probe parts across different views – select that resistor or net on the schematic, it glows up on the board. Clone from GitHub, GitLab or Gitea. Once your design is on your device, the app works 100% offline.
My brother and I run a small, part-time engineering company in Central Europe. Our lab is cramped, and there isn't really room on the desk for even a laptop. We were looking for an app that would let us work with KiCad designs while soldering or debugging: schematic, layout and BOM side by side, and interactive, so a part you select lights up in every view. It also had to work on any platform, work offline, and pull straight from git.
There was no such app, so I built one, and my brother tested it on real boards at the bench. After using it in-house for a while, we figured other people might want it too, so here it is.
It also lets you review a KiCad pull request on the board itself. You see which parts, tracks and wires changed, instead of reading a text diff.
You may be wondering two things. First, is it a port of KiCad? No. None of KiCad's code is in it. We matched KiCad's behavior by comparing against what kicad-cli outputs and the published file-format documentation. That was slower, but it's why it can be a closed-source app.
Second, why isn't it FOSS? See "part-time" in the first sentence. We'd like to drop that, and every little helps.
If there's something you wish a KiCad viewer did, tell me. I'd like to know what to build next.
Happy to answer any questions!