KiCad Viewer
View KiCad projects and review PCB pull requests visually
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Details
- External ID
- 1268351
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- KiCad Viewer
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Productivity, Hardware, Developer Tools
Description
View KiCad projects on iPhone, iPad, and Android: schematics, PCB layers, BOM, 3D, straight from your KiCad files: no converting or preprocessing needed. The app lets you review pull requests visually: see the changes, not the text diff. To help with debugging, you can cross-probe parts across different views – select that resistor or net on the schematic, it glows up on the board. Clone from GitHub, GitLab or Gitea. Once your design is on your device, the app works 100% offline.
Enrichment
- Niche
- code diff and technical document viewers
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- pcb visual diff and review tool for kicad
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Directly parsing, rendering, cross-probing, and visually diffing complex KiCad PCB layouts, schematics, and 3D models natively on mobile without preprocessing demands extensive CAD and computer graphics expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires building native mobile CAD engines (C++ / Metal / Vulkan) that parse KiCad's custom S-expression file formats (.kicad_pcb, .kicad_sch) and STEP 3D models on-device. The complex parts are high-performance vector rendering of dense PCB traces, spatial index acceleration (R-trees/BVH) for cross-probing parts, and visual geometric diffing algorithms across layer revisions.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 33 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
- KiCad in the Browser · hn · 2026-07-05 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- BoardDoctor · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update) · hn · 2026-01-04 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- pcb-layout-design · github · 2026-09-13 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- awesome-kicad-projects · github · 2026-09-11 · 118 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Gitwall for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Glassboard · hn · 2026-06-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- CAD Viewer Friendly · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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