Every part your team designs with, on one data model
Sideband is a desktop app that holds your components, symbols, footprints, 3D models, boards and suppliers in one place, and syncs them live into Altium via DBLib.
Stable · Windows, macOS & Linux · free
Sidebanddaughter-board-template
A real Altium .PcbDoc, rendered straight from the layer stack — copper, soldermask, silkscreen, paste and mechanical layers, each toggleable.
- Project
- daughter-board-template
- Layers
- 2
- Size
- ≈ 50 × 40 mm
- Thickness
- 1.6 mm
One model for parts from any manufacturer
Why Sideband
Stop scattering parts across spreadsheets and DBLibs
One model on your desktop that keeps every engineer, and Altium, working from the same parts.
One model
Symbol, footprint, 3D model, suppliers and storage all hang off a single component record.
A desktop app
Download it for Windows, macOS or Linux. Your library lives in a database on your own machine.
Built for Altium
A native DBLib endpoint, not a CSV export. Altium sees every change the moment you make it.
Free while in beta
The full app, no card needed. Early adopters lock in the best pricing for launch.
The whole bench, in one app
Real symbols, footprints and boards, not mock-ups
Inspect any board without opening Altium
A real Altium .PcbDoc, rendered from its layer stack. Toggle copper, silkscreen, paste and mechanical layers.
daughter-board-template
A real Altium .PcbDoc, rendered straight from the layer stack — copper, soldermask, silkscreen, paste and mechanical layers, each toggleable.
- Project
- daughter-board-template
- Layers
- 2
- Size
- ≈ 50 × 40 mm
- Thickness
- 1.6 mm
Pin-perfect symbols
Real SchLib symbols with live pin tables.
Land patterns done right
Real PcbLib footprints with pad geometry and layers.
| Pad | Shape | Size (mils) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | RECTANGLE · SMD | 90.6×183.1 |
| 2 | RECTANGLE · SMD | 90.6×183.1 |
Where is it?
Hierarchical storage that records where each part lives, down to the bin.
Scannable labels
Real QR + barcode labels that deep-link back into the app.
Real QR + Code128 via bwip-js — the same engine the app prints with.
Features
Everything you need to run a component library
Schematic symbols, outbound webhooks and the rest of the toolkit.
Component Library
One canonical record per component — parameters, lifecycle, MPNs/SPNs and a linked symbol, footprint and 3D model.
Learn moreSchematic Symbols
Every symbol rendered and searchable — pin tables, per-part previews — with the original SchLib bytes preserved for Altium.
Learn morePCB Footprints
Real pad geometry from the PcbLib, a per-layer primitive inventory, and the attached 3D model one tab away.
Learn more3D Models
STEP models attached to footprints, tessellated and rendered in the app — and flowing through to the assembled board view.
Learn morePCB Viewer
A WebGL viewer fed by the PcbDoc itself — 2D and 3D, five board themes, real drill barrels, and a measure tool in millimetres.
Learn morePin ↔ Pad Mapping
Automatic validation between symbol pins and footprint pads, with unmatched designators surfaced.
Learn moreBoards & BOMs
Import an Altium project and read everything — BOM, nets, placements, stackup, schematic — with JLCPCB-ready exports.
Learn moreInventory
A tree of your storage with scannable placement IDs that survive moves — the label you printed last month still resolves.
Learn moreLabel Printing
Design and print barcode / QR labels for parts and locations that deep-link straight back into the app.
Learn moreSuppliers & Manufacturers
Track manufacturer part numbers and supplier part numbers against every component, with real brand data.
Learn moreAltium ODBC Connector
A real ODBC driver for Altium's DBLib, kept live by change-data-capture — one MSI, one connection string.
Learn moreEasyEDA / LCSC Import
Import a fully-formed component — symbol, footprint and 3D model — straight from LCSC by part number.
Learn moreLibrary Import
SchLib and PcbLib archives — or SQLite, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Excel and CSV — through a wizard with field mapping and dedup.
Learn moreConnectors
Scriptable inbound/outbound integrations — enrich parts from CSV, Excel, SQL or APIs, or push your catalogue to ERP/PLM.
Learn moreCron Scheduling
Run any connector on a cron expression — validated in plain English — plus built-in maintenance jobs.
Learn moreWebhooks
Push components outbound as signed JSON webhooks the moment they change — compliant with the Standard Webhooks spec.
Learn moreREST API
116 routes across the whole library, documented as OpenAPI 3.1 — and pleasant to drive from ten lines of Python.
Learn moreSymbol Restyler
Saved themes — colours, fonts, per-text overrides — applied across thousands of symbols in one pass, originals untouched.
Learn moreCommand Palette
A VS Code-style ⌘K palette plus fully customisable keyboard shortcuts for every action.
Learn moreSearch
Words in any order, typos forgiven, sound-alikes found — "10uF 25V 0805" works however it comes out.
Learn moreOne model. Every part. Always in sync.
Put every part on one data model
Download Sideband for Windows, macOS or Linux and give your whole team one source of truth. Free while we're in beta — no card required.
Stable · Windows, macOS & Linux · free
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