At a fraction of the cost of ChemDraw®, purchasing ChemDoodle is a wise decision. For only $59.95, you receive better support and many features that ChemDraw does not provide. The following table compares ChemDoodle and ChemDraw so you may evaluate for yourself which is the better deal.
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| Feature | ChemDoodle | ChemDraw Ultra |
| Single User Retail Price | $59.95 | $2,590.00 |
| User Manual Retail Price | Free | $90.00 |
| Transfer License between Operating Systems | |
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| Free Documentation | |
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| Responsive Support | |
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| Contact Support from within Application | |
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| Expensive | |
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| Windows | |
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| Mac OS X | |
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| Linux | |
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| Microsoft Office | |
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| Apple iWork | |
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| OpenOffice | |
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| Netbooks | |
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| 32-bit Architectures | |
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| 64-bit Architectures | |
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| Bitmap Images | |
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| Scalable Vector Graphics | |
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| ChemDoodle Documents | |
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| ChemDraw Files | |
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| ACD/ChemSketch Documents | |
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| ISIS/Sketch (Symyx Draw) Files | |
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| Marvin Documents | |
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| MDL Connection Table Formats (.mol, .sdf, .rxn) | |
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| Chemical Markup Language | |
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| Schrödinger Files | |
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| JCAMP-DX Spectra | |
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| Daylight SMILES | |
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| Reads/Writes 24 Popular Chemical Formats | |
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| Copious Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Customizable Controls | |
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| Drawing Optimize Zone | |
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| Fixed/Unfixed Bond Angles and Lengths | |
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| Supports Drag and Drop | |
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| Drawing Guides | |
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| Tabbed Documents | |
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| Multipage Documents | |
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| Group/Ungroup Objects | |
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| Filetype Associations | |
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| Completely Customizable Graphics | |
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| Structure Templates | |
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| Chemical Style Sheets | |
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| Advanced System Clipboard Functionality | |
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| Contains Widgets | |
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| Auto-updater | |
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| Atoms | |
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| Bonds | |
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| Casual Bond Stroke Styling | |
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| Isotopes | |
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| Charges | |
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| Radicals | |
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| Other Symbols | |
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| Orbitals | |
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| Geometric Shapes | |
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| Rulers | |
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| TLC Plates | |
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| Reactions | |
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| Spectra | |
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| Reaction Cleaning | |
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| Reads/Writes MDL Reaction-Data Files | |
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| Implicit Building of Reactions | |
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| Explicit Building of Reactions | |
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| Reaction Atom Mapping | |
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| Multiplet Generation | |
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| Simulate ¹H NMR | |
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| Simulate ¹³C NMR | |
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| Simulate Mass Spectrometry | |
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| Reads Mass Spectra | |
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| Reads Infrared Spectra | |
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| Reads Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra | |
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| Edit Spectrum Perspectives | |
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| Rotate | |
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| Scale | |
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| Translate | |
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| Align | |
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| Distribute | |
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| Center | |
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| Stack | |
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| Flip | |
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| Join | |
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| Structure Cleaning | |
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| Distance Geometry Embedding | |
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| Structure Checking | |
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| Add/Remove Hydrogens | |
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| 3D Rotation | |
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| Aromaticity Detection | |
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| SSSR Detection | |
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| Euler Facet Detection | |
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| Hanser Ring Detection | |
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| Covalent Bond Deduction | |
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| Graph Reduction | |
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| Stereochemistry | |
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| IUPAC Naming | |
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| Condensed and Superatom Label Expansion | |
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| Search Your Storage Devices for Structures | |
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| Interactive, Customizable and Printable Periodic Table | |
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| Thorough Elemental Database | |
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| Calculates Molecular Properties and Descriptors | |
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| Lists References | |
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| ChemExper | |
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| ChemSpider | |
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| PubChem | |
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| Search for Chemical Suppliers | |
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| Generate HTML5 Web Components for Chemical Webpages | |
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