ChemDoodle is the next installment of the popular chemistry desktop software. ChemDoodle is a chemical structure environment with a main focus on 2D graphics and publishing to create media for your structures, reactions and spectra. It help you create chemical structures. ChemDoodle is a fully functional chemical drawing software that works on every operating system. In addition to being multiplatform, ChemDoodle also natively reads and writes many common file formats including ChemDraws CDX and CDXML.

ChemDoodle Features:
1. Intuitive Interface
All of the tools in ChemDoodle are easy to find and easy-to-use. All gestures give visual feedback so that you know exactly what you are doing.
2. Reads all of your Files
ChemDoodle reads most chemical formats, so those figures you made with ISIS Sketch or ChemDraw can still be edited, the output from your modeling tools can be displayed, and SMILES strings from websites can be instantly used.
3. Structures, Reactions, Spectra, etc.
ChemDoodle can be used to create graphics for most chemical objects including structures, reactions and spectra. Other chemical objects can also be drawn such as TLC plates.
4. All Graphics are Completely Customizable
Every last visual specification can be tweaked. This includes bond widths, stroke brush styles, how atom labels stack, the look of reaction arrows and the plots in spectra; the list goes on. Several common publisher presets are also provided, including ACS Document 1996.
5. Works with your other Applications
ChemDoodle can generate output in many various formats such as scalable vector graphics to work with iWork, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and the Adobe Creative Suite. ChemDoodle also supports many chemical formats for working with modeling programs and other chemical applications.
6. Create Chemical Webpages
ChemDoodle will generate ChemDoodle Web Components for your figures so you can just copy and paste dynamic and interactive web components right into your webpages. ChemDoodle Web Components also work on iPhone OS and Android devices.
7. Widgets
Widgets perform very specific, but strong, tasks that aid in creating your chemical graphics. They allow you to keep track of your drawing history, search databases, display statistics on your figures, manage templates, generate line notations, produce multiplets and much more.
8. Cheminformatics Functions
ChemDoodle's cheminformatics engine allows for creating brilliant graphics, such as providing advanced ring perception to ensure bonds face the right direction and structure depiction to clean your structures. There is also a growing number of descriptors that ChemDoodle can generate, from XlogP to TPSA to bond distance matrices. ChemDoodle also has access to our extensive database of elemental data compiled from published sources. This database allows ChemDoodle to accurately perform many tasks, from populating the dynamic periodic table to deducing covalent bonds to calculating a molecular mass. The data itself can be viewed by opening various data tables in ChemDoodle and is associated with units and references.
9. Built in User's Guide
An efficiently organized and illustrative user's guide is provided to quickly show you how to use our application.
10. Quick Installations
An exe installer is provided on Windows, a dmg on Mac OS X and a bin on Linux. You will have ChemDoodle installed and running in just a few minutes.
11. Native Executables
ChemDoodle is an exe on Windows, an app on Mac OS X and a shell script on Linux. Just double click to run them. These native executables will work exactly as you would expect them to. For instance, on Mac OS X, drag the app onto the dock to place it there and drag a file onto ChemDoodle's dock icon to open it.
12. Filetype Associations
On Mac and Windows, filetypes are associated with ChemDoodle so that you can simply double click your file and have it open in ChemDoodle.
13. Switch Operating Systems
Your license for ChemDoodle allows you to switch operating systems at any time; you do not have to buy ChemDoodle again. If you decide to switch from Windows to Mac OS X or Linux, your copy of ChemDoodle can be deactivated and reinstalled instantly.
14. Amazing Support
If you have any issues at all, our support is free. ChemDoodle will even pre-populate our customer service form for you.
15. Continuously Upgraded, Continuously Improved
ChemDoodle is an actively developed product and is continuously updated. You will never need to worry about ChemDoodle not performing a specific function as we listen to our customers and implement all feature requests as soon as possible.
16. Auto Update
ChemDoodle will check for new content and will automatically update if you choose; no need to redownload or reinstall.
17. Tailored Java
ChemDoodle is a Java software that looks and performs identically to other platform specific applications!

One of the outstanding things about ChemDoodle is that its not just a software for creating chemical structures or molecule drawings. It is a 2D chemical environment where anything chemistry can be incorporated. ChemDoodles widgets are a outstanding example of this freedom. These mini-applications perform various unique tasks such as interfacing with databases, generating and interpreting SMILES strings, and simulating multiplets.

In addition to ChemDoodles own format (ICL) and chemical document settings format (CDS), ChemDoodle can flawlessly read and write ChemDraws CDX and CDXML, MDL MOLFiles and SDFiles, and chemical markup language (CML). If journals do not accept ChemDoodles ICL format or any of the vector image formats provided, just save your document as a ChemDraw file and submit that as well.

All mutually inclusive objects, including shapes and images, can be saved with almost all properties preserved. This story at iChemLabs describes the reading and writing of ChemDraw files in more detail. You may also want to use structures created in ChemDoodle with other chemical applications.
ChemDoodle fully supports MDLs formats, which have become the standard chemical file formats, and almost every chemical software will be able to load them. A wide range of native formats allows for ease in using ChemDoodle for any task.

Requirements:
* Java

Limitations:
* Save, Save image As.. and Convert functions are not available
* Watermark at the top of Doodle Sheet and on the output
* Comments are not saved with vector images
* Templates cannot be saved

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $59.95, you can free download and get a free trial.