Protoboard Designer

Protoboard Designer

Design PCBs & export to Gerber

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  • September 13, 2026
  • September 13, 2026

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Go from circuit idea to production-ready Gerber file in minutes. No netlist. No learning curve. Just open the app and start building. Protoboard Designer is a WYSIWYG PCB layout editor for makers, hobbyists, students, and anyone who finds KiCad or Altium overwhelming. Place components, route copper traces, and export your board — on your phone, tablet, or directly in your browser at protoboarddesigner.com. Available on iOS and Web — your projects sync seamlessly across all your devices. KEY FEATURES • WYSIWYG PCB Layout — what you place on screen is exactly what gets manufactured. No surprises at the fab house. • Gerber & PDF Export — send production-ready Gerber files directly to any PCB fab, or export a PDF to etch your own board at home. • KiCad Footprint Import — use the built-in component library, import KiCad footprints, or add any public GitHub repository as a footprint source. • Cloud Project Sync — your boards are automatically backed up and synced across iOS and Web. Start on your phone, finish in the browser — or vice versa. • No Netlist Required — skip the schematic step entirely and jump straight to layout. PERFECT FOR • Makers and hobbyists designing perfboard, stripboard, or custom PCB layouts • Students learning electronics and circuit board design • Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 tinkerers moving beyond breadboards • Anyone wanting to go from idea to fabrication without weeks of learning software WHY NOT KICAD OR ALTIUM? Traditional EDA tools are powerful — but they're designed for professional engineers managing complex multi-layer boards. They take weeks to learn and are desktop-only. Protoboard Designer strips away everything you don't need for hobby and prototype work, so you can focus on building, not learning software. Try the web app for free at protoboarddesigner.com — no install required. Or download now and sign in with Google to get started in seconds. No credit card required. Terms of Use (EULA): https://protoboarddesigner.com/terms-of-service.html Privacy Policy: https://protoboarddesigner.com/privacy-policy.html
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What's New in Protoboard Designer

1.11.7

September 13, 2026

• Large boards no longer fly off-screen the moment you pan them. On a phone, any board wider than about 130 mm starts zoomed out — and the first drag threw it thousands of pixels away, leaving an empty grid with no obvious way back. • Panning after a pinch follows your finger. Pinch-zooming and then dragging with one finger made the board jump once and then stop responding to the drag entirely. • The board stays put while you edit its outline. Dragging a corner, or adding a point, could push the whole board out of view — worst on very small and very large boards. • Undo and redo behave while editing an outline. Adding two points and undoing twice returned the board to a rectangle but left the old editing handles on screen, and the next edit could bring the removed points back. • You can drag to move around a board someone shared with you. On a read-only board, one-finger drag and click-drag did nothing; only two-finger drag and pinch worked. • Duplicating a project now counts toward your plan's project limit, as it always should have. • Exports tell you before they replace an older one. Each board keeps a limited number of exports per format, and the oldest was quietly deleted to make room. The export dialog now says how many are kept, names the file that is about to be replaced, and lets you keep it instead. • 74 new footprints, including thermistors, the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Zero and the PIC16F676. The library now holds 1,730 parts.

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