Avogadro Reviews

2-3 years ago I would give this a 5 star. Today the state of this program is a complete mess and it sucks so bad I can't even use it. When they migrated to Avogadro2 holy crap did this program turn into one giant turd. Bugs and errors left and right. Random crashes. Can't install from source because it is throwing errors. All I wanted to do was draw one molecule, save it as a PDB, and use it. THAT'S IT. I now wasted 2 hours just trying to get it working on multiple computers and OSes and I'm thoroughly angry at the state of the program. It's complete trash now. How did you all mess it up this bad? This is a disaster compared to the older versions. And worse yet I only get the new Avogadro2 when I try to install via package manager. This used to be one of the best molecule drawing programs, but now it's just a complete pile of garbage and buggy. It's just not worth using anymore.

I have seen my friend creating very nice science diagram using Avogadro, but when I tried to install it on my laptop, a message displaying MSVCR100.dll is missing appered and I couldnt use it. My laptop is 64Bit

Literally created a Sourceforge account just to give 5 stars. Really easy to use and has good control over building and viewing features. The SolidWorks of molecules.

Thank you very much for the free open source program!

very convenience for research

V 1.2.0 for macos. I installed it specifically to make a buckyball out of carbon atoms. The "ring" feature helped enormously. It has a habit of crashing, and I don't know why. But I adopted the "Microsoft approach", namely "save early, save often". Now I have buckyball model in CML format that my 8yo daughter thinks is cool.

It is very nice app being considered as a chemistry and biochemistry visualization tool. This program has a lot of features typically found in the professional tools. It may lead to mis-positioning this app as a professional. This is the only disadvantage as of my opinion. Consider this program an amateur, and you find it is excellent.

Initially installed on windows 64 is not working because of missing a dll file. This file can be installed from microsoft site: www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328 Then all is great!

Avogadro is good but it does certainly have its limitations. As pointed out there are no Python bindings available for Windows, except when using the very out of date version 1.0.1, which can prevent one from using some of the more advanced features. As far as support well the mailing list (avogadro-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net) I found quite helpful. Something worthwhile noting for all those intending to use this software to create molecular images -- the element colouring palette is etched in stone.

Hello, somebody known how to calculate Avogadro software the cross section, maxime diameter, and Surface total area of the molecule? Please I need this information. manuelmorrone@gmail.com

Most of packages for Windows are without Python console. I need the feature and find avogadro-1.0.1-python-win32.exe, which is the only package with Python console. I hope the developers will enable the console in the future.

Avogadro works wonderful.

Amazing project, thanks for giving out

It took me quite long to get used to interface - still it was worth it. Highly recommended.

Great software, thank you.

so soft really good, I also liked!

Cool software, very easy and simple to use, thanks!

not user-friendly interface :( but program is great

great work guys!

Great software, but please, restore support for 32-bit Macs!

simply the best open source software.

This program is very useful! Definetly recommended!

Two words: LIGHTNING FAST!

I think avogadro will be very difficult program. But I was wrong. Very simple to use.

Very very good. Using for a long time.