Features
Built around how a lab actually works. One database for each thing you keep.
Mice, fish, flies, worms, plasmids, samples and supplies, each in a sheet you edit in place, with the calendar and the notebook beside them.
Databases
One database for each thing you keep. Only what your lab keeps appears.
Mouse colony
Every mouse in a sheet you edit in place. Record a litter once: weaning and genotyping dates follow, and experiments dose each mouse from its weight.
Racks, named your way
D7, 4-7, G12 or plain 1 to 80: each rack keeps the labels on its real stickers. Drag a cage to move it.
Drosophila & C. elegans
Vials and plates on racks in incubators, with flip schedules that follow the temperature, crosses and frozen stocks.
Plasmids
Upload a GenBank, FASTA or SnapGene file: the sequence and its features, with a map you can edit, and the box each tube is in.
Samples, orders and reagents
Orders move from requested to received; reagents warn before they expire; antibodies, viruses, primers and cell lines keep what matters.
Any other organism
Xenopus, axolotls, yeast: describe it in your own words, how it's counted and what it needs, with no code.
Calendar & notebook
Weanings and flips filled in, protocol timelines from day 0, and a notebook you edit together and sign.
Cage cards and phones
Print cards for cages, tanks and vials. Point any phone camera at the QR code and that record opens, ready to edit.
Features
The details that save the afternoon. In every database, from the first day.
Today's jobs on Home
Weanings, genotyping, old breeders, vials to flip and expiring stock, as cards, a two-week ruler or your racks.
41 bench calculators
Molarity, dilutions, buffer pH, A260, ligation, master mixes, ΔΔCt and more, answered as you type.
Edit like a spreadsheet
Click a cell and type; it saves as you go. Sort, filter, export to CSV or print.
Bring your spreadsheets
Import from Excel matches your columns by meaning, and shows a preview before anything is saved.
Undo for bulk changes
Every batch can be undone, unless someone has edited those records since.
Full change history
Who changed what, and exactly how, for every record. Scripts and R can use the API, as you.
Search everything
⌘K from anywhere finds any mouse, plasmid, sample or page, and pages open as tabs you keep.
Made for a whole lab
Members, owners and project groups, roles for animal care, and sign-in with Google, Microsoft or your institution.
At home on a Mac
A full menu bar with the usual shortcuts, light and dark, and Install and Restart when there's a new version.
Deployment
Start on your laptop. Grow into a server.
Desktop app
For one person on one computer. Download, open, done. Your data is a file in your user folder, private to that computer, and moves to a server later in one step. Or share it on the lab's network, or open the lab's server in its window.
DownloadLab server — the web version
For the whole lab, from any browser, the Android app, or an iPhone's home screen. HTTPS, PostgreSQL, and backups that run nightly and are test-restored every week. Free on a cloud VM with Tailscale; an hour to set up, with every step written down — or hand it to an AI assistant.
Run it for your lab