Comparison

CircuitWay vs Circuit Simulator bitGateLab

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CircuitWay

Design, simulate, and analyze analog and digital electronic circuits on your device. Explore numerous example circuits and a vast library of components, including support for Verilog and Arduino modeling. Perform transient, DC sweep, AC, and FFT analyses with waveform manipulation.

Highlights
  • Analog and digital circuit simulation
  • Extensive library of 106+ components
  • Support for Verilog and Arduino modeling
  • Transient, DC sweep, AC, and FFT analysis
  • Waveform manipulation and math expressions
  • 97 example circuits for learning
Features
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CircuitWay is a SPICE simulator of analog and digital circuits. It can easily design, simulate, and analyze electronic circuits on your device. There’re 100 example circuits for your convenience to explore. They range from basic BJT amplifiers, to MOS amplifiers, to oscillators, to filters, to PMICs, to 555 timers, to switched capacitor circuits, to high frequency circuits, to basic digital circuits, and finally 10 complex projects. The 10 complex projects consist of: UART, RISC CPU, PLL, Clock and Data Recovery (CDR), SRAM, R-2R Ladder DAC, Σ-Δ ADC, SAR ADC, FIR Filter, IIR Filter. There’re 106 type of library elements in the CircuitWay, range from resistor, capacitor, inductor, to sin, pulse, pwl voltage source, to controlled source such as: VCVC, VCCS, CCVS, CCCS, to behavior voltage source, to switches, to opamps, to tranformers, to Verilog code, to standard digital cells, to ADC/DAC, to 555 chip, to Arduino and more. Because CircuitWay supports Verilog, so you can build indefinitely any number of digital circuits using Verilog hardware design language. CircuitWay can also support Arduino, so you can use c language to model a large number of complex systems. CircuitWay supports 4 type of analysis: Transient, DC sweep, AC, FFT. You can manipulate and inspect waveforms in the schematic page, and build waveform math expressions to calculate new waveforms from exist waveforms. CircuitWay is serious about helping you to understand more about circuits. If you find and want to report bugs, you can contact dianlutu9988@gmail.com or circuitway@126.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Circuit Simulator bitGateLab

Features
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Circuit Simulator bitGateLab is an electric circuits and analog electronics lab on your PC, phone or tablet: draw a circuit, measure it with multimeters and an oscilloscope, get its frequency response, turn it into block diagrams with the Laplace transform and build it on a 3D breadboard. Works offline, no account required. DRAW AND SIMULATE • DC, AC with phasors and time-domain transients, using modified nodal analysis (MNA), the same method SPICE uses. • Resistors, potentiometers, capacitors, inductors, transformers, thermistors and LDRs. • DC and AC voltage and current sources, a signal generator (sine, square, triangle and ramp) and dependent sources. • Diodes, Zener, LED, Schottky, NPN and PNP BJTs, N- and P-channel MOSFETs, JFETs and op amps with supply rails. • Undo and redo, copy and paste, rotate, replace components and node labels. MEASURE LIKE IN THE LAB • Voltmeter, ammeter, wattmeter and a multimeter-style probe on any node, pin or component. • Multichannel oscilloscope with a trace of every signal over time. • Bode plot (magnitude and phase) plus DC and frequency sweeps. LAPLACE AND CONTROL • Block diagrams: gain, H(s), integrator, differentiator, PID, delay, summing junction and saturation. • Turn your circuit into blocks and get its transfer function H(s). • Step response, poles and zeros, Bode plot and step-by-step diagram reduction. 3D BREADBOARD • Your circuit builds itself on a breadboard with resistors, capacitors, transistors, sources and wires. • Rotate, zoom and choose isometric, top, front or side view. PRACTICE EXERCISES • Generate fresh exercises on series-parallel simplification, mesh and nodal analysis, the Wheatstone bridge and AC RC, RL and RLC circuits. • Each exercise comes with its circuit, a graded question and a step-by-step solution. IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open SPICE netlists (.cir, .sp, .net) from ngspice or LTspice, including model libraries, and Falstad circuits. • Export to SPICE, Falstad and CircuiTikZ for your LaTeX documents, or as an image or PDF. FREE AND PREMIUM • Phone and tablet: every feature free, with circuits of any size and with ads; Premium removes the ads. • Premium: a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING • Designed as a companion to an electric circuits course: whatever you work out by hand, you can check in the simulator. • Light and dark theme, European or American symbols. • 45 languages. PRIVACY No account and no cloud: your circuits are saved only on your device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://juchabit.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

CircuitWay4 screens
Circuit Simulator bitGateLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CircuitWay at none against Circuit Simulator bitGateLab's shown. Circuit Simulator bitGateLab's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CircuitWay sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Circuit Simulator bitGateLab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CircuitWay ships an update monthly, Circuit Simulator bitGateLab every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
CircuitWay versus Circuit Simulator bitGateLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCircuitWayCircuit Simulator bitGateLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size392 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer栋侠 郑RUBEN ESTRADA MARMOLEJO

In-app purchases

3 purchases

CircuitWay

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$6.993 Months
  • Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
3 purchases

Circuit Simulator bitGateLab

Subscriptions2
  • bitGateLab Circuits Monthly$1.991 Month
  • bitGateLab Circuits Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • bitGateLab Circuits Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is CircuitWay free?
CircuitWay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Circuit Simulator bitGateLab free?
Circuit Simulator bitGateLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CircuitWay or Circuit Simulator bitGateLab have ads?
Circuit Simulator bitGateLab shows ads; CircuitWay does not.
Which is updated more often, CircuitWay or Circuit Simulator bitGateLab?
CircuitWay ships an update monthly, and Circuit Simulator bitGateLab every 3 days. Most recently, CircuitWay was updated on November 5, 2026 and Circuit Simulator bitGateLab on November 6, 2026.

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