From whiteboard sketch
to clean scientific figure.

From napkin to publication-grade figure, in minutes.

• Paper, Whiteboard, Napkin: Any hand-drawn sketch works. Photograph it, upload, and SciFig sketch to figure converts it into a publication-ready scientific figure.
• No Tablet, No Illustrator: Zero drawing tablet. Zero Pen-tool-in-Illustrator learning curve. If you can sketch stick figures, you can use SciFig.
• Labeled, Layered, Editable: Not a traced scan — a clean figure with correct labels, aligned arrows, and journal-style typography. Every element can be individually edited.

Yes. We interpret intent, not line quality.

• Messy Lines Are Fine: Crooked circles, shaky arrows, misaligned boxes — SciFig reads the structure you meant, not the strokes you drew.
• Stick-Figure Level Works: Researchers tell us they spent 10 hours learning Illustrator before discovering SciFig handles 3-minute bus-stop sketches just as well.
• Scientific Context Aware: Draw a rough signaling cascade — SciFig infers which blobs are kinases, which arrows are activation vs inhibition, and labels accordingly.

Tracing keeps the mess. SciFig sketch to figure redraws clean.

• Re-draw, Don't Trace: Illustrator's Image Trace preserves your wobbly lines. SciFig generates new, clean vector shapes with consistent weights and journal-grade typography.
• 10 Hours → 3 Minutes: Researchers told us they spent days learning Illustrator before finding SciFig. Same output, 100× less time investment.
• Organized Layers, Not Flat SVG: Output comes with named, grouped layers — not one flat layer of spaghetti paths.

Yes. Two ways — canvas or conversation.

• Click-to-Edit Canvas: Move elements, fix typos, adjust colors, re-style arrows — every object is independently editable.
• Multi-Round AI Refinement: Type "make the PAM site bigger and change the arrow from green to red" — SciFig updates the figure without you touching anything.

Anything with a clear spatial story.

• Ideal Candidates: Mechanism diagrams, experimental workflows, signaling pathways, cell structures, equipment setups, flowcharts — anything where "which shape connects to which" is the point.
• Distinctness Beats Neatness: Three obviously-different blobs beat three identical crisp circles. Make each component visually distinct, even if crude.
• Add Labels by Hand: Scribble "Kinase A" next to one blob and "PAM" next to another. SciFig reads handwritten labels and renders them as clean text.

Yes. Drawing + description is our secret weapon.

• Both Inputs Together: Upload the sketch and add "this is a CRISPR delivery mechanism, add PAM site labels" — SciFig sketch to figure uses both to produce a far more accurate figure than either alone.
• Sketch Gives Structure, Text Gives Meaning: Your drawing handles layout. Your words handle terminology. Combined, SciFig nails both.

Yes. Handwritten labels in any script → clean rendered text.

• Multilingual Handwriting Recognition: Scribble labels in your working language — for example, `récepteur` in French — and SciFig renders them as properly typeset text in the output.
• Bilingual Workflow: Generate the figure in your working language for the lab meeting, one-click swap to English for journal submission — same figure, no redraw.
• Mixed Labels Supported: English terms, non-English terms, and Greek letters can coexist in a single figure.

Every format your sketch to figure output needs for paper and deck.

• Editable Vector: SVG — every stroke from your sketch comes out as clean, layered vector geometry.
• Editable Slides: Native PPTX — each panel a separate PowerPoint shape, ready for lab meetings and conference talks.
• Journal-Ready Raster: PNG and JPG up to 8K, meeting 300 DPI at standard journal column widths.

Yes. Your napkin doodles and whiteboard snaps stay yours.

• Never Training Data: Your hand-drawn diagrams aren't used to train our models — even when they capture brilliant early-stage ideas you haven't published yet.
• Draft-Safe: Whiteboard photos often hold unpublished hypotheses, thesis outlines, or conference-prep sketches. Same encryption-and-zero-training guarantee as any other upload.
• Yours to Delete: Clear your sketch history anytime. Zero retention if you don't want it.