Who is Scientific Figure for?

Researchers, graduate students, educators, R&D teams and science communicators — anyone who needs accurate figures without a designer. It is built for blank-canvas users: no Illustrator or BioRender skills required.

Will the output be scientifically accurate?

AI gets you 99% of the way there; you handle the final 1%. Every label, arrow and shape stays editable, so you can verify and correct any detail before submission — nothing is locked into flat pixels.

Can I edit a generated figure?

Yes, that's the core of the product. Refine with AI edits, or export editable PPTX and layered SVG and adjust every element in the built-in vector canvas or in PowerPoint and Illustrator.

Can I use the figures in journal submissions?

You retain full publication and commercial rights to everything you generate. Exports reach 600+ DPI at single-column width. Whether AI-assisted figures need disclosure depends on your target journal's policy — when in doubt, add a one-line note in your methods.

Is my unpublished data safe?

Private uploads are encrypted in transit and at rest, and are never used to train models. Your manuscripts, sketches and figures remain yours alone.

How is this different from BioRender or raw AI image tools?

Template libraries limit you to shapes someone already drew; raw AI tools give you flat pixels you can't correct. Scientific Figure generates to scientific conventions and keeps the result fully editable — science-grade output you can still fix.

AI figure engine · for researchers

Free AI scientific figure maker. From sketch to publication-ready scientific figure

Turn your ideas, sketches, and research into clear, publication-ready scientific figures in seconds.

A free AI figure generator, built for journals

The whole loop, not just the first draft — 50 free credits, no card.

Generation

Start from ANYTHING

Mechanism diagrams, signaling pathways, experimental workflows and graphical abstracts — each starts from something you already have.

Text to Figure

A sentence or an abstract, drafted as a figure — schematic through fully rendered, chosen up front.

Image to Figure

A photo, a whiteboard sketch or an existing figure, redrawn clean and editable.

Reference to Figure

The paper itself, read and turned into artwork at 1K to 8K.

Editing

Change EVERYTHING

Nothing is baked in. Labels, colours and background stay editable after the figure exists.

Text

Labels, legends and callouts stay live text. Correct a gene name without redrawing.

Region

Redraw one panel, or recolour the whole figure to a journal palette.

Background

Strip it to white or transparent for the manuscript template.

A line-art DNA double-strand break figure with the recolor panel open, showing Nature, Science, NEJM, Lancet, JAMA and Okabe-Ito palettes

Outputs

One tool, EVERY FIGURE

The same pipeline draws a four-panel explainer, a conference poster and a graphical abstract — and most things between them.

Illustration

Multi-stage explainers with a consistent hand.

Poster

Full conference layout, print-ready.

Graphical abstract

Problem, method and result on one panel.

And the rest

Mechanism diagrams, signaling pathways, experimental workflows — anything a paper needs a picture for.

Hand-drawn illustration of four stages showing how slow-wave sleep consolidates spatial memory in mice

Export

Export in ANY FORMAT

The figure leaves as a file the next step accepts — a manuscript upload, an Illustrator session, or the slide you have to present.

PNG

Lossless, written out at the figure's own resolution.

JPG

The same picture in a smaller file, for portals with an upload cap.

SVG

Real vectors — text stays text and every shape stays a shape, in Illustrator or Inkscape.

PPTX

An editable slide. Retype a label in PowerPoint or Keynote without coming back here.

Tools

Dedicated tools for the figures researchers hand in most often.

AI Scientific Illustration Generator

Mechanism diagrams, schematics and figure panels, drawn from a sentence or a rough sketch.

Six styles, from clean schematic to 3D render
Every label and arrow stays editable
Layered SVG and PPTX export

Open the tool See examples

Graphical Abstract Maker

Problem, method and result on a single panel, sized for journal submission portals.

One-panel layouts that read in a single pass
600+ dpi at single-column width
Recolor to match your target journal

Open the tool See examples

Scientific Poster Maker

A full conference poster — title, sections and figures — laid out and print-ready.

A0, A1 and 48×36 in portrait or landscape
Six academic templates that follow poster conventions
Editable PPTX for last-minute changes

Open the tool See examples

Pricing

Transparent pricing, safe payment

Start free with 50 credits. Upgrade when you publish.

Pro

$10/mo$20

Save 50%$120 billed yearly

For individual researchers

Advanced models after upgrading

FLUX

Seedream

GPT

Nano Banana

3,000 credits / month≈ 70 figures, plus room to edit
Up to 4K export
No watermarks
Publication Authorization
Standard generation queue

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know before your first figure.

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