--- title: Ultiboard Reviews meta_title: 'Ultiboard Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 22 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Ultiboard works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 22 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # Ultiboard Reviews **Vendor:** NI **Category:** [PCB Design Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/pcb-design) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About Ultiboard Ultiboard is printed circuit board design and layout software that integrates seamlessly with Multisim to accelerate PCB prototype development. Ultiboard software offers efficient PCB design layout and routing with a customizable environment. You can use its flexible tools to place parts and copper with manual precision to define critical board elements. With its automated functionality, you can quickly complete a design. The advanced spreadsheet view, toolbox, and design wizards help you easily manage, control, and define any board layout. Seamless integration with Multisim software provides simple schematic transfer to PCB, and forward and backward annotation ensures design iteration management. You can easily export industry-standard file formats such as Gerber and DXF to complete the design flow from schematic to layout ## Ultiboard Reviews ### 1. Outdated UI but very effective at designing and printing circuit boards. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Demi M. | Documentation Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** Ultiboard is effective. It can and will get a circuit board designed for printing. It's helpful that it can generate the connections for the user while also allowing tweaking or full blown customizations. **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** Ultiboard may not be the most user-friendly application in existence today. The icons can get a little cluttered. The indicators such as a <= 90 degree angle in routes can be thin and easily missed if you're not looking for them. **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, I'm not solving any major problems with Ultiboard. I have used it to create my own PCBs for little side and home improvement projects, which has been quite the lifesaver. Sometimes, a circuit board in a kitchen appliance gets on the fritz, and we need to repair it. Other times, I want to create my own appliance such as a semi-automated bartender. It's useful for quick, small jobs. I have yet to use it for multi-layered projects. ### 2. Best Circuit Design Software I ever used!!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeeva S. | Technical Account Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** Best software for the PCB circuit and design. I mainly used it when I was an engineering student in electronic courses and exams. The software was straightforward to use, even for students, and with minimum supervision and lecturers' assistance. With this software, I managed to create a multiple-layer circuit with reasonable time. **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** - The software GUI looks a bit retro, especially with the current time. - Finding electronic components also a bit tedious, and the search must be accurate. - The simulation was sometimes not working or accurate for the complicated circuit, and it took me some time to find the root cause. - There are also fewer documentations and helps with the software. **Recommendations to others considering Ultiboard:** There are other circuit board design and layout software in the market; however, I would suggest using Ultiboard, primarily for engineering students and first-time users, due to its ease of use and understanding. I took roughly one day to understand how to use the software, and after that, I managed to create multiple circuit boards. This software is best for educational institutions only. **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was mainly used for the electronic assignments and exams on designing circuits for an engineering student. Based on my experience, I recommend this software for the first time user and engineering student. Even though the GUI looks a bit retro, I don't see any obstacles and challenges in using this software for my university assignment and exams. I would suggest for users to be more accurate on searching the components whenever they are using this software for the PCB design. ### 3. Ultiboard Student review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** I enjoyed the simple UI as well as the feasibility to import from NI Multisim which allowed me to print a PCB of the CE AMP I was working on as well as add many layers to the wiring. Moreover, I was able to customise the menu to fit my specific needs. I have not yet printed the PCB but it looks very simple. The UI although outdated offered ease of use. **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** I dislike the fact that the UI is a little dated as well as the fact that the Copper wiring sometimes gets mixed up and has to be manually adjusted. Moreover I dislike that the components have to be manually untangled in order to fit the PCB board specifications. A more modern UI would be excellent. Also I wish there was compatibility for MAC OS since I am a primary MAC user. It would be great to see also Multisim as well as Ultiboard integrated into one system. Also I ran into the issue where I had to reopen the files because they kept crashing on windows 10 but I'm sure that is just a temporary bug which will soon be fixed. SImple Issues overall. **Recommendations to others considering Ultiboard:** I would suggest getting to know Multisim first since all components are imported from there **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating a CE AMP, It is easy to print out the PCB once completed. Furthermore I enjoyed the layering components since I could choose which track I wanted. Moreover I have realised that it is very simple to implement with a PCB printing software. ### 4. Used ultiboard to create PVC board for senior project in college. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Princesa C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** I loved how user friendly the program was. It's been over 4 years and I can honestly say I'd still remember how to do most of the "commands" I used. **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** Sometimes the way that the program tried simplifying your chip was more complicated than before. I think that ist to be expected of any program though. I think sometimes the program let us be too free with how we connected microchip components and this was impossible in real life. Again though I dont think that's anything unusual of the program and more likely had to do with inexperience. **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to create a unique board to satisfy the needs of our senior capstone project, and we needed multiple sensors to have input ability in a very small space. I liked that we were able to create this and succeed with our project. ### 5. Nice software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** GOWTHAM V. | Lecturer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** Designing is very easy , frequently using components are really great **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** Soft slows down the laptop process, and changing into trace is little bit difficult **Recommendations to others considering Ultiboard:** For PCB design board it is the best I used **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Circuit boards for my projects ### 6. It is quite user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suhotra Kishore C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** Ultiboard makes complicated designing seem feasible. It is very helpful for innovative designing. **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** Got hanged sometimes while running with other softwares. **Recommendations to others considering Ultiboard:** Use it for designing , it's a lite software ,but some times it hangs so do not run if other softwares are running. **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mostly solved academic problems using ultiboard. It helped me learn Analog electronics much better. ### 7. First step in learning PCB designing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** The auto routing features help a novel user understand the rules of PCB designing **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** The fact that I've used Ultiboard along with Multisim means that there is a dependency. It would be much better if you could just start design the circuits in Ultiboard. Of course, I haven't used the software extensively so there might be a way to do this but I'm not aware of that yet. **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main purpose of my use was too teach students about PCB designing ### 8. Ultiboard is recommended for intermediate pcb designing and not for high speed designings **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Ultiboard?** You can import your circuit from NI workbench. **What do you dislike about Ultiboard?** Ultiboard is not user friendly while working on high speed and complex pcb design. **Recommendations to others considering Ultiboard:** Use it for basic or kick starter design. Simulate your circuit and import it in ultiboard. **What problems is Ultiboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I only benefit import your design from NI workbench to ultiboard for test pcb. ## Ultiboard Discussions - [How do you use NI ultiboard?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-use-ni-ultiboard) - [What are the features of Multisim software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-features-of-multisim-software) - [What is Ultiboard software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ultiboard-software) - [What is the best way to compare current components with others?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33058-what-is-the-best-way-to-compare-current-components-with-others) - [efrf](https://www.g2.com/discussions/33013-efrf) - [View Ultiboard pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ultiboard/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+10%3A19%3A10+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=65871b40-fe56-466d-bee5-60bad6878ac2&secure%5Btoken%5D=5411559564ca2c556a02b6ab6b941fb68e31c3488efe4a5ac0c16aeadc7f976e&format=llm_user) ## Ultiboard Features **Design** - PCB layout editing - Schematic editor **Tools** - 3D modeling tools - Component placement **Library** - Component libraries **Platform** - Board size - Layers **Customization** - Custom commands - Custom interface ## Top Ultiboard Alternatives - [Altium Develop](https://www.g2.com/products/altium-develop/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,031 reviews) - [KiCad EDA](https://www.g2.com/products/kicad-eda/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (64 reviews) - [Autodesk Fusion](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-fusion/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (510 reviews)