Leave a Review iCircuit
Just love it
Is getting better over the time keep improving you are just amazing...MoshMan10
Crashes and not working
Complete garbage, totally waste of money, crashes on iOS 10Justin.,?!',
Easy to use
Very interactive and easy to use. Doesnt have the most functions in the world but for 15.00NZD/10USD it is pretty solid.
The only way to improve now is to add more components...especially bidirectional capacitors.
Very good app.😀Super star power
Massive money saver
It's not perfect (there will always be something extra) and CAD on a tablet with a pudgy finger is always going to be less than ideal.
However, as experienced hobbyist (and less than great designer), this has saved me countless hours of experimental work in testing my ideas. It's also saved me a bundle in components since I can make sure my ideas work before I even need to get the breadboard out.
I'm not smart enough to see how some circuits work on paper but this allows me to see them work in real time (and tinker) without the need to get out of bed!Show lessmarcdraco
Not so good!
Initially this is a basic tool with some interesting abilities. Needs more symbol to be added. After creating a couple of circuits, I left the program. Came back and the circuits were gone, so were the examples, and all the settings were unavailable. This program needs some updating and fixing of the obvious trap doors.
Update. Tried saving to the iCloud and the circuits built lasted longer... Tried to select a circuit out of a folder I created to send to printer and then entire folder was lost along with the examples folder. Went to look on local iPad and not there either.
According to the manual, the use should be able to access the "Trash" folder. Unable to do so with the program loaded on my iPad 9 Pro. As a result of continued problems, I have downgraded my rating to a single star. One of the things I noticed is there have been no updates to the APP for about a year.Show lessRoyzTrains
Great, until...
I made a few circuits for some practical effects in a show, and as a lighting designer and master electrician it's very helpful to make them on the go, send them off, and have the practical test ready when I get in. However, in sharing a folder out, I lost everything in it on the first try. It was only a few schematics, but I have to now make them again. Trying to load the circuit file into the app didn't work, and none of the schematics I made came up as visible (just blank pages).
So, while its nice to make these on the go, it's a little useless if I can't send them to anyone. I would say this would be well worth $10, if you could share the folders successfully. Otherwise, it's very useless organizationally.
(Also, you can't save anything as a PDF to iCloud Drive, which is just weird).Show lessOffenhoffer
Dave
I do not normally write reviews, but felt compelled to as I have read some bads reviews for this App. I am a chartered electronics / systems engineer and I use iCircuit for interactive presentations. It is no substitute for Pspice, but for my modelling of stray currents and earthing/ bonding it is absolutely fantastic. I would happily have paid ten times the amount for this App. For those of you that have concerns I have validated the results with a fully licensed copy of Pspice and the numbers are the same; but Pspice does not allow you to run scenarios based on peoples 'real time' questions.Show lessDangerous - Dave
More to come?
This has the makings of a great App. I wanted to test circuit values for a long tailed pair and it was able to help me design a viable transistor circuit. Some improvements I would like to see. It would be great if you could leave the scope on one component or circuit point whilst changing the value of a different component. Same with the meter. Also it would be good if you could select the meter for DC Levels for biassing while a signal is passing. Also a way to easily measure gain between two points in a circuit. I hope these ideas can be incorporated into an update. Thanks for a good App.Show lessK33F50
Amazingly useful for both learning and creating.
I will freely admit that I am only a dabbler in electronics. However, it is really nice to have a tool that lets me stop and think about what I'm doing, and visualize the results. I have learned quite a bit from using this app, and it has provided me with a way to test out ideas for I commit myself to actually creating them.
However, I have to take one star off for completely inadequate VoiceOver support. Because I am visually impaired, use VoiceOver quite often to assist me with soft for that is visually challenging. It's always very jarring to find out that I can't do things like select items on voiceoverVoiceOver is turned on.Show lessBasenjiBuddy
Unusable due to UI issue
I purchased this app to help with an electrical engineering circuit design class. Upon downloading and installing, I was initially impressed with the design simplicity, and unique style that this app has. I attempted to model some simple circuits, but then I found a fatal flaw.
Once an element is placed and saved, and unable to undo, it is nearly impossible to delete. This is largely do to the incredibly touchy nature of the UI on iPad. The UI demands that in order to delete a circuit element, you must select it, and momentarily press the element in order for the option menu. The menu then lets you delete it. However getting this menu is nearly impossible, because if your finger moves even the most fractional amount, the interface does not recognize the press. I've found that I would try to press 10+ times on an element just to get the menu, and this is simply unnacceptable. Until they patch this problem, this app is unpractical for any application. Once they patch the issue, I will happily recant my review.Show lessseanumeses
