iCircuit Reviews – Page 7
4/5 rating based on 100 reviews. Read all reviews for iCircuit for iPhone.
iCircuit is paid iOS app published by Krueger Systems, Inc.
Great app
Reviewer85637
Just starting in electronics and find this app great for simulation. A lot friendlier than any of the spice apps. Moving components can be a tricky and rotating the push button switch is nearly impossible. Adding a few more buttons to ease manipulation of components should go a long way. Runs beautifully on my iPad Pro.
It won't even open
Tishgacham
I'm supposed to be able to use this for school, and can't all. It's downloaded, and everyone was given their codes and they use Canute theirs. I can't even open mine because all it does is display waiting beneath the app icon as if it were finishing a download. There's nothing to download because it was already done. I don't want to delete the app and then risk having to pay for it to download it again. Thank you for causing me to not be able to finish my labs and such.
Great App!
Li'l Bill
If you want to see how stuff works electrically this is the app. Been working great since my 5s and now my 6+ make this app a valuable tool that you should not be without. Support was fast, friendly and responsive, sorry I haven't needed support in a while. Nice job!
A Very Good App (Update 2016)
RonDt
Been using this App on both the iPad and a MAC for several years. There have been numerous updates that have greatly improved the App. Overall iCircuits does a very good job of simulating digital and analog circuits. There are a fair number of basic analog and digital components. It's a good App to try basic circuit ideas before building them up on a bread board. Have upgraded to iPad Pro allowing the use of a stylus. This had made inputing circuit elements much easier as is with the MAC version. That said the functionality of both versions is the same. Overall iCircuits is well worth the money.
Great, until...
Offenhoffer
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).
Works perfectly but the UI needs improvements.
Mutnau
Excellent for circuit simulation and helps a lot with my course. However, the UI is a little bit inconvenient.
Doesn't work anymore, crashes on start
Michael Prescott
Crashes on iOS 10 on startup, if iCloud saving is used. Crashes in variety of ways if iCloud is not used.
Great app but would like more components...
CornBread 143
I am not an electrical engineer by any means but a know enough to get around. I enjoy using this app to make circuits & test before building them. I do keep running into issues of not having some what I thought were common components such as a LM317 voltage regulator or being able to drag a bridge rectifier into the circuit w/o having to use 4 separate diodes. I have a simple circuit I'm designing right now that needs a LM317 but can't finish it w/o this component in iCircuit. An annoyance is the selecting of components or to delete them can be frustrating at times but may just be a price of convenience of having a good app like this on an iPad. Thanks, -Kevin
Basic, but buggy and with limits
Sudosoup
Moving components around results in crazy wiring that takes lots of effort to clean up, often in a loop somewhere stopping the simulator. It also sometimes ceases to be able to delete things as the context options don't show up until you restart it. It also has problems for complex components, like a 555 timer, where by default it hides the ground, as it seems to crash if you connect the ground pin to ground. Lastly, many basic components are hard limited to certain ranges, for example the diode. To represent a component that is not in the system, I need arbitrary voltage control on the diode. But maxing out at 25 limits you and it crashes if you chain diodes. As others mention, it lacks some basic compound components too, like a full bridge rectifier. Don't expect to prototype anything more than basic concepts with this.