[toybuilder]

I once did a board in Fritzing for a client (strange requirement, but they paid my rate!) -- and I realized that it was actually an accessible route for someone that might make one or two very simple PCBs, ever, on their own.

[sokoloff]

Interesting. Had no idea that Fritzing could even do PCB gerbers. (I'd only played with it once for a few minutes to see how someone else made some pretty wiring diagrams.)

[duskwuff]

It's not very good at it, and I wouldn't recommend it over more capable options like Kicad, but if all you need is a simple 2-layer PCB to connect a few basic components together, it'll get the job done. The results won't win any design awards, but they'll work.

[toybuilder]

Exactly.

What Fritzing has going for it is that it is very simple.

Think of it like firing up Notepad when you just need to print a few words on to a sheet of paper, while everyone else is using Word.

I wouldn't recommend it for anything beyond maybe one maybe two DIPs and some surrounding passives and a few headers/connectors.