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About Protoboard Designer: PCB CAD

Go from circuit idea to production-ready Gerber file in minutes. No netlist. No learning curve. Just open the app and start building. Protoboard Designer is a WYSIWYG PCB layout editor for makers, hobbyists, students, and anyone who finds KiCad or Altium overwhelming. Place components, route copper traces, and export your board — on your phone, tablet, or directly in your browser at protoboarddesigner.com. Available on iOS and Web — your projects sync seamlessly across all your devices. KEY FEATURES • WYSIWYG PCB Layout — what you place on screen is exactly what gets manufactured. No surprises at the fab house. • Gerber & PDF Export — send production-ready Gerber files directly to any PCB fab, or export a PDF to etch your own board at home. • KiCad Footprint Import — use the built-in component library, import KiCad footprints, or add any public GitHub repository as a footprint source. • Cloud Project Sync — your boards are automatically backed up and synced across iOS and Web. Start on your phone, finish in the browser — or vice versa. • No Netlist Required — skip the schematic step entirely and jump straight to layout. PERFECT FOR • Makers and hobbyists designing perfboard, stripboard, or custom PCB layouts • Students learning electronics and circuit board design • Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 tinkerers moving beyond breadboards • Anyone wanting to go from idea to fabrication without weeks of learning software WHY NOT KICAD OR ALTIUM? Traditional EDA tools are powerful — but they're designed for professional engineers managing complex multi-layer boards. They take weeks to learn and are desktop-only. Protoboard Designer strips away everything you don't need for hobby and prototype work, so you can focus on building, not learning software. Try the web app for free at protoboarddesigner.com — no install required. Or download now and sign in with Google to get started in seconds. No credit card required. Terms of Use (EULA): https://protoboarddesigner.com/terms-of-service.html Privacy Policy: https://protoboarddesigner.com/privacy-policy.html

What’s new

Version 1.14.2 · Updated November 1, 2026

• Long editing sessions are saved to the end. After the 200th change in one visit to a board, every later edit was drawn but never saved. An exact angle typed after turning a selection is now saved too. • Edits are saved again after the app reconnects. When the app confirmed your sign-in late (on a slow connection, or after opening without one), or another device's change arrived while you were editing, every edit after that was drawn but never saved, and was gone the next time the board opened. • Deleted pads no longer come back after a phone call or an app switch, pads you changed no longer go back to their old shape, and a group made after an Undo is no longer saved empty. • A pad placed on the end of a track stays locked to it, and Unlock in the locked-track dialog sticks once the board is saved. • A Done key for the iPhone's number keyboard: a bar above it has Done, arrows to the previous and next field, and a ± key wherever a value can be negative. Tapping outside a field, or scrolling the panel, also applies the value and puts the keyboard away. • Starting an airwire from a pad lights up the airwires it already has, so you can see which one to draw again to remove it.

App privacy

The developer, Protoboard Designer Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Contact Info: Email Address
  • User Content: Other User Content

Used for: App Functionality

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Usage Data: Product Interaction
  • Diagnostics: Crash Data

Used for: Analytics, App Functionality

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