MollyCule

MollyCule is an advanced application designed to help ordinary people who want to explore Chemistry. MollyCule has many simple, fun and easy to use features that make it perfect for teenage scientists and students.

Hello! I'm Graeme, and this is MollyCule. MollyCule is a completely free Chemistry visualisation program for MacOS, Linux and Windows. MollyCule is designed to be a nice, easy to use program to help ordinary people who want to explore Chemistry.

MollyCule has many simple, fun and easy to use features that make it perfect for teenage scientists and students. Traditionally, chemistry visualisation packages have used keyboards or complicated mouse-gesture systems to allow you to view molecules from different angles and positions. That's not fun!  In MollyCule, you simply point, click, and go!

MollyCule does all the hard work of figuring how to look at molecules, and flies you around the molecule with animation.  MollyCule can produce animations automatically in real-time, that are very suitable for using alongside a powerpoint presentation or as a backdrop to a class or simply for fun at home. You can also use MollyCule as a screensaver, with the built in 'Drifter' mode.

MollyCule has a special "plug in" design, which means you can easily use and configure MollyCule in any way you like.  You can download molecules from the web, store them or disk, view them as different kinds of model, and light and colour them any way you like.

It's simple to produce beautiful pictures for reports and essays using MollyCule. Just set the picture up the way you like, and save it as a PNG or JPG. You don't need to understand any complicated chemistry, and you don't need to be clever with computers to use it. There's a simple control panel, and no complicated menus to remember. Best of all, MollyCule has a flexible yet straightforward system for lighting.