https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadroapp
Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadroapp
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Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadroapp
- Owner: OpenChemistry
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2012-06-02T20:30:45.000Z (about 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2026-02-01T06:06:14.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-02-01T15:51:41.353Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: avogadro, chemistry, compchem, cross-platform, desktop, hacktoberfest, open-science, openchemistry, qt5, visualization
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://two.avogadro.cc/
- Size: 12.6 MB
- Stars: 234
- Watchers: 11
- Forks: 76
- Open Issues: 14
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
- Security: SECURITY.md
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README
# ![Avogadro 2][Avogadro2Logo] Avogadro 2
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## Introduction
Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in
computational chemistry, molecular modeling, education, bioinformatics,
materials science, and related areas.
It offers flexible rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.
Core features and goals of the Avogadro project include:
* Open-source, distributed under the liberal 3-clause BSD license
* Cross-platform, with builds on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
* An intuitive interface designed to be useful to the whole community
* Fast and efficient, embracing the latest technologies
* Extensible, making extensive use of a plugin architecture
* Flexible, supporting a range of chemical data formats and packages
Avogadro 2 began as a rewrite of the original [Avogadro 1.x][Avogadro1], which
is now unsupported.
The successor is faster, better, much more stable, and more featureful.
A final couple of features yet to be ported will be implemented by the time of
the 2.0 release, but in the meantime Avogadro 2 already has
[much new functionality of its own](https://two.avogadro.cc/docs/whats-new-in-avogadro-2/).
Avogadro's codebase is split across a
[libraries repository](https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs)
and an [application repository](https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadroapp).
The new code architecture provides a high-performance rendering engine, modern
code development, and significantly improved speed and stability.
Avogadro is being developed as part of the [Open Chemistry][OpenChemistry]
project by an open community, which was started at [Kitware][Kitware] as
an open-source community project.
## Installing
For the most up-to-date experience use the nightly builds prepared by GitHub
actions for:
* [Linux (AppImage)](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_linux/master/Avogadro2-x86_64.AppImage.zip)
* [macOS (Apple Silicon)](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_mac/master/macOS-arm64.zip)
* [macOS (Intel)](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_mac/master/macOS-intel.zip)
* [Windows](https://nightly.link/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/workflows/build_windows/master/Win64.exe.zip)
We also maintain a
[`beta` Flatpak](https://two.avogadro.cc/install/flatpak.html#install-flatpak-beta)
for Linux that is updated with the lastest changes every week or two.
For full releases and an overview of all available ways to obtain Avogadro see
the [overview](Install) on the Avogadro website.
Binaries and the source code for each release can be found on the
[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/releases).
If you would like to build from source we recommend that you follow our
[build guide][Build].
## User guide
Our [user documentation](https://two.avogadro.cc/docs/) can be found on the
Avogadro website, as well as a brief guide to
[getting started](https://two.avogadro.cc/docs/getting-started/).
## Contributing
We welcome *all* kinds of contributions as a community project, from bug
reports, feature suggestions, language translations, Python plugins,
and C++ code development.
Our project uses the standard GitHub pull request process for code review
and integration. Please check our [contribution][Contribution] guide for more
details on developing and contributing to the project. The [GitHub issue
tracker](https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs/issues/)
can be used to report bugs, make feature requests, etc. Our API is
[documented online][API] with updated documentation generated nightly.
To introduce yourself, ask for help, or general discussion, we welcome everyone
to our [forum](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/)
Contributors Hall of Fame:
[Avogadro2Logo]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/master/docs/avogadro2_64.png "Avogadro2"
[OpenChemistry]: https://openchemistry.org/ "Open Chemistry Project"
[OpenChemistryLogo]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/master/docs/OpenChemistry128.png "Open Chemistry"
[Kitware]: https://kitware.com/ "Kitware, Inc."
[Avogadro1]: https://avogadro.cc/ "Avogadro 1"
[Build]: https://two.avogadro.cc/develop/build/ "Building Avogadro"
[Install]: https://two.avogadro.cc/install/ "Installing Avogadro"
[Contribution]: https://two.avogadro.cc/contrib/ "Contribution guide"
[API]: https://two.avogadro.cc/develop/classlist/ "API documentation"