Welcome to the "Free software applications for crystallography" website! Crystallography is fun. Crystallography is a job. How many people in the world can state the same about their job? I am lucky that I can, and I am happy to have the great opportunity of having enough passion and skills to invest an important part of my life in doing something useful for other crystallographers, young or less, who share the same passion with me. 'Sharing' is a key word in our job. Sharing curiosity, questions, answers, thoughts, ideas. Thinking about crystallography issues from several different points of view gives me ideas to develop new software. And this arises not only from my curiosity and questions, but also and above all from that of my colleagues. It is for them that I write software applications, and it is through their collaboration, support, questions, suggestions and reports that my software can be corrected and improved: for my and their research, and fun! Software available for free download In this website several software applications are available for free download. Among them, control software (SINGLE) for revitalising old four-circle diffractometers, and automating new ones! There are specific applications to integrate, reduce and merge single-crystal X-ray intensity data, especially from non-standard experiments. There are several applications to fit equations of state (EoS) and to perform other EoS, elasticity and related calculations, and several applications to perform a number of crystallographic tasks. Just navigate around the Software pages to find further software applications. More detailed information is available in each software application page and users’ guides. But, please first read the introduction page to software! ECA Lunchtime Webinar Ross Angel gave the European Crystallographic Association's lunchtime webinar on "How to evaluate published high-pressure experiments" on Thursday April 11th 2024. You can view a recording of the lecture on the ECA website. New Crystal PALACE Software We have now released a new software package called Crystal Palace for analysing structural data from parametric studies. It saves you lots of work and trouble.... by organising structural data collected as a function of pressure, temperature or composition, and producing organised tables of all sorts of properties of your crystal structure; bond lengths, angles, polyhedral volumes, and lots more! More information and the installer for download are here. Ross Angel

Movie of rigid tilting of tetrahedra in feldspar made with the CrystalMaker® software.