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MolTouch

A touch-friendly browser editor for drawing chemical structures and saving MOL files or PNG images.

WebsiteManual

License unclear. 10 of 65 checklist features confirmed.

Main canvas

MolTouch main canvas, light mode
light mode

No dark mode

dark mode

Default drawings

caffeine as drawn by MolTouch with default settings

Caffeine

paclitaxel as drawn by MolTouch with default settings

Paclitaxel

No 3D view

Cholesterol in 3D

Facts

Latest version
v1.0.0
Version we tested
v1.0.0
Runs on
Browser
License
Homepage claims open source; source headers reserve all rights, with no license grant identified.
Price
Not published
Relies on
No third-party engine found. Own atom/bond model and Canvas renderer; external scripts supply interface controls.
Draws with
HTML5 Canvas 2D; PNG output uses canvas.toDataURL.
Chemistry from
In-house JavaScript atom/bond model and MOL-file parser/writer.
Interface
HTML/CSS with jQuery 1.4.2, jQuery.radmenu, and Tinybox.
Main language
JavaScript
Other languages
HTML/CSS provide interface markup and styling; PHP handles downloads.
Renderer
Original: MolTouch Canvas renderer
Third-party licenses
MIT option for jQuery/Sizzle (GPL-2.0 alternative); other bundled UI licenses unconfirmed.

In use

Screenshots from our test of this version.

Features

  • Tested by running it
  • Seen in the app
  • The manual says yes
  • Partly, with the reason shown
  • Not supported
  • Not established, which is not the same as no

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Drawing structures

Reactions and mechanisms

Figures and layout

APIs and automation

Embedding and extension

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