Almost great
Paying monthly/annually isn’t worth the money. I want to see prolong degradation of circuits and overheating. I want to know if my design will fail.
So much potential but not worth paying for.
Response from developer
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. The component limits are something I've been working on. Resistors now show wattage warnings, capacitors flag over-voltage, and there's a whole warnings system in the app for exactly this kind of thing. I'd love to know which specific components you want to see stress analysis on. I've filed this as something to audit more comprehensively across all the basic components. The goal is exactly what you described: tell you if your design would fail in the real world. -Frank
Great App for electrical and electronic circuit simulation
Select by lasso bug
Amazing application
Developer has my Respect.
Response from developer
Thank you Neil. That means a lot coming from a licensed EE. -Frank
Pagar de nuevo?
Excellent
sad
I wanted to use this to sketch circuits on an iPad. It's not good for that because the components are so buggy and limited.
The UI doesn't work the way you would expect. You can't place things like you would expect. Basic functions like zooming and moving the canvas just don't work right. Snapping is frustrating and inconsistent. Sometimes when you tap an item it brings up one menu, sometimes it brings up a different menu. When using the app the canvas often gets stuck where you can't scroll down to see the bottom half of what you're working on, and the only way to fix it is to close the project and open it again.
The pencil doesn't work right. It gets stuck doing nothing on a lot of taps. It kinda works sometimes, but the app was definitely not tested with the pencil. It's made to work with your finger.
Scrolling lists of components is frustrating because there's no scrollbar and no room between components to 'grab' the list and scroll it. Most of the time you try to scroll a list it will think you're trying to drag the component out of the list and place it.
Labelling things is not something the developer wants you to do. Components have a name you can edit, but many don't actually display the name. Traces/nets can't have names. There is a 'text label' component, but if you try to use it you'll realize there is an invisible barrier preventing you from actually placing it near other things. So you can't make an adjacent label, and you certainly can't place a label on top of something.
Take a basic component — the TRS jack. It doesn't show the name you give it, and it doesn't have labels for tip/ring/GND. By default it's facing right. If you want to make it face left, you can only rotate it 180º so now it's upside down with GND on top and tip on the bottom which is confusing because you can't label things. There's a 'flip' option but it doesn't actually flip the component. It just roates it 180º. So it just does the exact same thing as rotating it twice. That's not very useful unless you like upside-down jacks with unnamed leads coming out of them. You're better off using 'internal port' for anything you want a name on.
There's no consistancy. The TRS jack rotates and flips, but 'flip' actually rotates instead of flipping. But if you want to rotate an IC there is no 'rotate' option, there's just 'flip', and in this case it actually DOES flip the IC to a mirror image. That's not something you'd EVER want (unless you're drawing a circuit where the IC is on the bottom side of the PCB and you're looking through it from the top).
Point being nothing works the way you want it to. If you want to sketch a circuit you're better off sketching it in a basic drawing app or sketching it on a piece of paper and taking a picture. This app won't improve your workflow.
Most of the problems are things a developer with mobile experience could fix in an afternoon, but this developer is still charging $12.99 yet is unwilling/unable to fix any of the UI for 10+ years.
Don’t buy, bought full app, year later they remove features for subscription
Response from developer
I've never intentionally moved standard features behind the Pro subscription. In fact, I regularly move things from Pro to Standard, not the other way. If you're seeing components you previously used now locked behind a subscription, that's a bug and not our policy. Please email support@kruegersystems.com with the specific components and I'll fix it right away. -Frank
日本語対応していない
Response from developer
ご報告ありがとうございます。テキストラベルで日本語が文字化けするのはバグです。修正します。次のアップデートで改善される予定です。 -Frank
Fehlerhaft
Ich bitte um Rückerstattung der Kaufsumme ..
Response from developer
Es tut mir leid, dass Sie diese Erfahrung gemacht haben. Das von Ihnen beschriebene Verhalten tritt auf, wenn die Simulation mit einem unvollständigen Stromkreis kämpft. Dabei entsteht ein extrem kleiner Strom, der leider visualisiert wird, obwohl er in der Praxis keine Rolle spielt. Ich arbeite daran, diese Anzeige zu verbessern. Könnten Sie mir die Schaltung an support@kruegersystem.com schicken? Rückerstattungen werden von Apple bearbeitet. Ich kann sie nicht direkt erstatten, aber Apple erstattet Käufe auf Anfrage. -Frank
Garbage Programming
Response from developer
Thanks for writing this out. You're right about all three issues and I want to be straight about where each stands. Rotate: A dedicated rotate button is something I'm adding. It will be in an upcoming update. Undo/Redo: I'm making undo more granular so one press won't wipe out your work. Redo does exist in the app but it's clearly too hard to find. I'm fixing that too. Wire editing: This is a real bug and I'm actively working on it for the next release. The connection point drag should work and it doesn't, and the workaround you found shouldn't be necessary. I'm a solo developer and I've been working on iCircuit for 15 years. Feedback like this is how I know what to prioritize. Thank you. -Frank
Greedy developers
サクッと回路検証
Genial!
Daumen hoch, Leute 👍
I have tried multiple simulator apps
Constantly freezing
Response from developer
I test on an iPad regularly and haven't been able to reproduce this. Is there a specific element or action that triggers the freeze? If you can email me the details at support@kruegersystem.com I'll investigate right away. -Frank
Improvements
Not a lot of option
Bof
Gabriel
Testé sur iPad
