Worse in some ways, much better in others.<p>The UIs of both are pretty terrible so even on that point.
The schematic tools are pretty similar in their capabilities.
KiCad&#x27;s pcb tool has some much more advanced features (mostly added by a group at CERN in the last year) such as a push and shove router, differential trace routing and length tuning which can auto add serpentines, etc. It is not 100% feature complete compared to the old pcb engine though.<p>KiCad also has some nice user scripts for importing&#x2F;exporting 3d models for mechanical work now. (search kicad stepup)<p>All in all, they are close to the same level right now.<p>A lot of KiCad is in flux right now though because a lot of contributors have come on in the last couple of years. Much of the program is being rewritten&#x2F;has been rewritten recently. It doesn&#x27;t seem to be slowing down either.<p>full disclosure: I help develop KiCad a bit. I tried to be pretty balanced in this comparison though.