winget install --id Avogadro.Avogadro.2About Avogadro2
Avogadro is an advanced free and open source molecular editor and visualization tool. It is highly capable and designed for use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, chemistry education, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible high-quality rendering, a modern UI with native styling, and a powerful plugin architecture. Avogadro is designed for cross-platform use and is fully supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
What's new in 2.0.0
We are pleased to announce the latest release of Avogadro, including piles of bug fixes and many feature enhancements. Thanks to many for suggestions, bug reports, translations, and discussions. Avogadro is built from the community, and we appreciate all the help. Avogadro v2 was designed for fast modern rendering and improved stability. It is a platform to make it easy to build the next generation of molecular and materials visualization and editing tools. If you haven't used an Avogadro2 beta (1.95 through 1.103) you will find many new features. 🌟 Highlights (tldr) - New plugin system will load menu commands, input generators, file formats, energy and electrostatic models, including installation of any required libraries and tools using [pixi](https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/installation/) on Mac and Windows. (Highly recommended on Linux too) - New plugin install window and index, including over 20 plugins (and growing) - Includes a variety of ML potentials, charge assignment using AM1-BCC and ABCG2, building nanotubes and surface slabs, generating disordered ice unit cells, and many more. - Easy to build and customize with Python - link to a wide variety of packages - Faster geometry optimizations ~50% faster on all models, and up to 5-10x faster on large molecules using UFF. - Added a faster protocol for using external energy models, including ML potentials, XTB, and more. - Added a simple molecular dynamics mode to the AutoOpt tool, including with energy models. - Improved ORCA input generator, including syntax highlighting - [Revised, updated documentation](https://two...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2.0.0 | Unknown | We are pleased to announce the latest release of Avogadro, including piles of bug fixes and many feature enhancements. Thanks to many for suggestions, bug reports, translations, and discussions. Avogadro is built from th... |
| 1.103.0 | Unknown | 🌟 Highlights (tldr) - Switch to use OpenGL 4.0 core profile for improved rendering speed - Volumetric rendering style for surfaces (orbitals, electron density, spin density) - Add peptide builder - Add keyboard shortcuts... |
| 1.102.1 | Unknown | - This release fixes a number of bugs in the recent 1.102.0 release. Many thanks to everyone submitting bug reports! - It also offers test releases for Linux-ARM64 and Windows-ARM64. If you try these out, please let us k... |
| 1.102.0 | Unknown | 🌟 Highlights (tldr) - This release is intended as a final beta before a 2.0 stable release - Add the popular auto optimize tool - Updated charts, including spectra using the JKQtPlotter framework - Both macOS and Windows... |
| 1.101.0 | Unknown | 🌟 Highlights (tldr) - This release is intended to fix key problems with 1.100 on Windows (missing Open Babel) as well as on macOS 26 "Tahoe" (save dialogs) - Should more easily find Python installs on Windows - Added sup... |
| 1.100.0 | Unknown | 🌟 Highlights (tldr) - New rendering options, including depth-of-field blur and fog from @perminder-17 - Faster surface mesh generation using the flying edges algorithm @perminder-17 - Brought back the "molecular orbitals... |