# BioRender Reviews **Vendor:** BioRender **Category:** [Other Life Sciences Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-life-sciences) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 67 ## About BioRender BioRender is the world’s first online software that helps over 2M scientists create beautiful, professional science figures in minutes- no drawing skills required! BioRender empowers scientists to create and collaborate on figures for publications, presentations, posters, grants, and more. We envision a world where science is universally communicated and understood through visuals. ## BioRender Reviews ### 1. BioRender- Making every researcher's diagram creation journey even easier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aafreen K. | Research Scholar, Biotechnology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2026 **What do you like best about BioRender?** All the icons are available in one place, which makes it easy and effortless to create any kind of diagram. I can also add labels at the same time. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** In my opinion, the limited number of objects we can use to create a diagram—50 objects—is really frustrating. I think this limit should be increased, because not everyone can afford it. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm creating diagrams, flowcharts and posters which is publisheble and makes my works less time consuming ### 2. Essential for Creating Research Figures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dr. Muhammad R. | Scientific Researcher, Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2026 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I like the high-resolution exports of figures and schemes without watermarks, which are great for professional use. The availability of templates is really helpful. I also appreciate the unlimited objects and the AI tools that enhance the drawing process. Additionally, BioRender offers full publishing rights, which is beneficial for my research work. It's easy to use, and the initial setup was very straightforward. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The high resolution and templates exports with no watermarks are not free. This is the issue. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender provides high-resolution exports, templates, and professional schemes without watermarks, which I use for figures and schemes in research articles. I appreciate having unlimited objects, AI tools, and full publishing rights, although I wish these were available for free. ### 3. Extremely frustrated with customer support team **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2026 **What do you like best about BioRender?** It’s easy to draw and edit figures. I also like being able to incorporate template figures and then customize them as needed. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The customer support team is horrible and extremely unresponsive. Getting a reply is difficult, and it feels like my concerns aren’t being addressed. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me prepare figures for high-impact presentations and reports. ### 4. BioRender is an exceptional online tool that greatly enhances my communication of complex science. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Funsho Habeeb I. | Graduate reearch assistantt, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I have used BioRender extensively to illustrate intricate details of glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer. The platform's user-friendly interface and extensive library of scientifically accurate icons and templates allow for the creation of clear, professional-quality graphics with ease. This has been invaluable in presenting complex cellular pathways and molecular interactions involved in glioblastoma. The customization options ensure that every figure is tailored to specific research needs, making it an indispensable tool for scientists and educators. Moreover, BioRender's ability to facilitate visual storytelling in science not only improves comprehension but also engages the audience more effectively **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Truly biorender is very exceptional. However, it could be improved to explored images in 3D. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biorender has been invaluable in presenting complex cellular pathways and molecular interactions involved in glioblastoma. it is making my learning and presentation experience so easy ### 5. Biorender for dairy and food scientists **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** FNU A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** It helps to create and illustrate the mechnistic figures in decribing your work as well as in your manuscripts. I have been using Biorender since 2 years almost and have been recommending to my peers as well. It has great in built icons and templates which helps a lot. For dairy and food scientists it helps to draw different equipments using in built icons, define their processes and many more. Further, it is easy to use and have high resolution as well. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I wont say that I dislike it, but rather something that could be added to it which is icons and templates for dairy and food science students for instance, there are not enough equipments from dairy science as icon/template e.g. heat exchanger, cheese vats even the icon for ice cream and other milk products . There is one icon for cheese etc. this would help to gain more people from dairy science. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to justify/illustrate what we write in review manuscripts or reserach, which makes readers to capture it easily and understand. Further it helps in powerpoint presentation as well. ### 6. Awesome tool for computational biologist **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** saba m. | Postdoc Scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Biorender is an essential tool for illustration of biological process. It is best to make high quality figures in minutes. it saved a lot of time for other reserch. Now I can make my grant, presentation and article figures in minutes with full satisfaction and according to journal requirement. It is awsome for computational as well as for experimental biologist. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** It is awsome tool however more templates for making workflows will be extremly helpfull. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am a computational biologist I make integrated figures and computational biology helped me save a lot of time by giving me ease of combing modeling figures and generating biological processes side by side so I can explain my finding wells ### 7. Essential Tool for Computational Biologists **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saba M. | Postdoc Fellow, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is effective and essential tool for biologists and have significant improtance in creating high quality figures espcially for computational biologist. I love the integration of powerpoint that make help to make professional illustrations. I highly recommend Biorender to my fellows and collegues and everyone working in the field of biomedical research. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I want to recommend avandced costumization and animation option for Powerpoint. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender solves several key challenges computational biologists face, including the need for professional graphic design skills, time-consuming figure creation, and maintaining scientific accuracy in illustrations. By offering an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and a vast library of scientifically vetted icons, BioRender allows researchers to create polished, accurate figures quickly and easily. This efficiency enhances productivity by freeing up more time for core scientific work. Additionally, BioRender ensures consistency and standardization across figures, which is especially beneficial for collaborative projects. Integration with tools like PowerPoint further streamlines the workflow, making producing cohesive and professional presentations easier. Overall, BioRender significantly improves the quality and clarity of scientific communication, benefiting researchers by providing high-quality, ready-to-publish visualizations. Biorender help me to make advance figures with professional graphic iocons for my research process It save time and maintain scientific accuracy and resolution etc It helps in labelling and combining figures genrated with computational modeling softwares like pymole and MOE BioRender improves the quality and clarity of scientific communication, it helped by providing high-quality, ready-to-publish visualizations. ### 8. BioRender software to create graphics and art for renowned science and engineering articles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raisa Carmen A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I like the versatility and the variability of icons. I am able to create highly intricate graphics and art by editing existing icons, and uploading my own designs as well. I can use it in my computer as well as in my iPad. It is very straigtforward, and simple to use, so I have used it for all my scientific publications to date. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** At the moment i do not dislike any feature of BioRender. I has been very handy and useful to create stand-out graphics and art. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** With BioRender, I illustrate the most attractive and compelling scientific graphics and art. This is so beenfefitial as it allows me to express my scientific ideas visually, easier and informative to a wide audicience with various levels of knowledge in my field. My illustrations always boost my scientific presentations. ### 9. User friendly, and extremely versatile! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madison H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is a user friendly and collaborative tool used by both me and and my colleagues to make flawless figures for science. Not only have I used it for class, but also for high quality graphical abstracts and figures for publications, as well as using their poster builder feature! This is the one tool as a scientist I am constantly using on a regular basis. It was super easy to get in contact with customer support if I ran into any issues. Since working with c. elegans, I really enjoyed having multiple model organism figures already made and I no longer had to use grey squiggles on powerpoint to model my experiments for presentations or lab meetings. I highly recommend using this program to communicate your science more effectively! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The downsides of BioRender are the time it takes to learn all of the shortcut features to make figure making quicker. Also, BioRender is not currently integrated with cloud platforms like OneDrive or Google Docs that would make for easier use with colleagues and sharing information with other users outside of the platform **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast and high quality scientific figure making. It takes a lot of time and money to learn how to use Adobe products to make scientific figures, and with scientists in mind, the icon library is constantly expanding in BioRender for approved icons for all of your scientific needs. ### 10. High quality individualized figures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erin M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender has made making clear, readable figures for my publications and presentations a breeze. I'm saving so much time compared to other softwares, and the tools they have make it simple for me to customize their icons, which is really necessary for me since my research is unusual. I also use it for educational figures, worksheets, and tutoring resources. It really has been a lifesaver for me. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I do wish there was more diversity in the organmisms available as generic figures, or that some icons were a bit more "realistic" as opposed to the more illustrative/cartoon style. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender helps me make high quality figures quickly, which saves me HOURS that I used to spend in Illustrator or other softwares. ### 11. Excellent way to create beautiful figures for manuscripts and grant proposals **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nirmal K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender has so many options for creating graphics—especially, the cell structures from neurons to immune cells. I use BioRender for manuscripts and for creating graphical figures for Grand proposals. I find it easy to use and choose from many options. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Nothing to dislike. I do have suggestions to improve it through. 1) Biorender should include 3D structure more. 2) Can include a way to draw to create something new. 3) Cellular organelles detail structure, especially Lysosome, ER, Mito, and Golgi. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biorender trying to make science easy to understand to both scientists and the general public by providing an option to create figures. Using Biorender I can make figures for my manuscript to communicate my research well. ### 12. Extremely user friendly! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramzi I. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** The most helpful part about using BioRender is how user friendly it is. You do not need a prolific background in making figures to be able to use BioRender. It is pretty self-explanatory but yet is very comprehensive with its capabilities. I have drafted numerous figures that served as data-visualization points in my manuscripts and graphical abstracts using BioRender. These have been well recieved by high-impact journals. I highly recommend BioRender for those who want high-quality figures! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The lack of a BioRender software that one can download & install on a computer may be the only downside. It's certainly not difficult to navigate the BioRender website though. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing high-quality figures for research purposes. ### 13. It was my research easy!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jimmy U. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I would definitely recommend Biorender to anyone! I started using Biorender in my first year of graduate school and I like the fact that high quality images can be presented in a clear manner, especially when one needs to use such diagrams created by Biorender for publications. I also like the fact that templates for poster presentation are readily available in Biorender, which make the art of creating posters for conferences easy for implementation. Consequently, I use it so frequently!!! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I would like to have Biornder as a software on my computer, rather than having to go to my browser everytime I want to use it. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Aids flexibility when creating diagrams, like flow charts, for conferences and publications. ### 14. The go-to for scientific figures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee P. | Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is an exceptional tool for creating high-quality scientific illustrations and graphics. The extensive library of customisable icons, templates, and figures is tailored specifically for scientific purposes. This allows me to quickly assemble diagrams, charts, and schematics, saving valuable time. The user interface is intuitive and user-friendly, making it accessible even for those without extensive design experience. Overall, BioRender streamlines the creation of scientific visuals to communicate their findings effectively. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** One drawback is the pricing structure, which may be prohibitive for individual researchers or smaller labs with limited budgets. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender addresses the fundamental challenge of effectively communicating complex scientific concepts through visuals. ### 15. Biorender is a great tool for proposal writing!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica L. | Carol and John Cromer ‘63 Family Endowed Associate Professor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Biorender is an extremely user-friendly website that enables the formation of biologically relevant figures for publications, presentations, and grant proposals. I use Biorender at least once a week for one of the aforementioned applications. Although I haven't had to contact customer support, they provide user support through their webinars. These webinars have really helped me streamline my experience. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** It can be expensive to get more than one user on your account, which can be a roadblock in academia. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's providing high quality "clip art" to create much more streamlined and beautiful figures for publications, presentations, and grant proposals. ### 16. Best tool for scientific communication! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ipek S. | Graduate Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is an absolute gem for scientists like me! It is super helpful during my PhD studies to explain complicated scientific plans. It helps me to prepare workflows, slides, posters and even to use tiny cute symbols. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** One potential drawback is its reliance on internet connectivity due to being a web-based platform. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender is very useful for translating complex scientific ideas and experimental plans into visually engaging charts . It definitely helps me save time with its broad library and makes it fun to design new workflows using my own creativity. ### 17. Great for Research! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is an amazing product for anyone interested in creating figures, tables, posters, or presentations! As a medical student, I've used BioRender to draft over 15 conference posters, complete with over 25 unique figures. My favorite part about BioRender is the versatility of the software that allows me to utilize it for so many different purposes, whether it's creating an image from scratch, modifying the existing templates from the gallery, or composing a larger illustration from my previous works. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** BioRender as it currently stands is slightly more focused on lab research and biomedical science which is less applicable to me as someone who focuses more on clinical research. However, the gallery of available templates, flowcharts, images, and graphics to use continue to grow which makes this issue less of a concern with every passing day! **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It serves as a place for me to create custom graphics for my own research. ### 18. BioRender: The Best Image and Illustration Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erin T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender offers a wide variety of icons and images to create professional quality illustrations. If an icon is not already available, it can be requested and added. They also offer pre-made templates which are very useful. The versatility of the software is remarkable and new images, icons, templates, and features are contantly being added to improve user experience. A picture is worth a thousand words, so anytime I need to explain something, I always turn to making a figure in BioRender because it is a fun and simple way to get your point across effectively. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I can't think of anything that I dislike about BioRender. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender is an easy and effective way to convery information simply through professional quality illustrations. I use BioRender for presenting data in powerpoint, for teaching purposes, and for creating images for publications. ### 19. One of my favorite graphical apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Trevonn G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I enjoy BioRender templates, they help with inspiration and are very easy to use. Biorender allows you to add your own graphics and can blend seamlessly with biorender objects. Biorender consultants are also really easy to reach out to and happy to help. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I wish interfacing with powerpoint was easier. But overall, I have very few dislikes. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think being able to look at templates and use multiple templates created by other people is most useful. also, their library of science-related objects has saved me from having to create some objects myself. ### 20. Biorender is perfect for anything in academia including manuscripts and lectures **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rhea T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Biorender is very easy to use for someone who has zero graphic design experience. It has most of the graphics one would need in medicine or science and they are customizable. Complex images can be broken down and certain elements added or removed. In addition, Biorender provides exceptional customer support and occassionally has free webinars to demonstrate how to successfully use their product in academia. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** BioRender doesn't have every single image you can imagine but I believe customer service would be open to considering other design ideas if you let them know. This is not a dislike but just a comment that BioRender is not AI and doesn't generate the entire figure for you. You still have to have a clear idea of what you are trying to generate (create a sketch ahead of time) and you need some creativity in design aesthetics to get a figure to look great. Luckily if you contact the company they may be able to help you or provide free webinars. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to create figures for manuscripts and presentations quickly without the complication of learning Adobe Illustrator. I can create a finished figure in 1-2 hours. ### 21. Great program for visualizing biological information **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zea B. | Research Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** The ease of ability to make changes to figures and templates, including color, shape, and position. This allows for very niche concepts and structures to be displayed and allows anyone to more easily understand. The learning curve is small and can be used for almost every project, article, or presentation. I use it constantly for many applications. The Biorender team is very responsive and proactive as well. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The statistical graphs and analysis could be expanded, but from my understand the biorender team is currently working on this issue. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are currently beta-testing statistical graphs and analysis to address this area that has been missing from the program, while constantly asking their users for feedback during this time. ### 22. Awesome tools for Researchers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SAMUEL A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Several templates and Icons make scientific illustration easy! The poster design tool made me develop a quick poster in less than 20 minutes. Images generated can easily be integrated into other editing software without hassle and retaining the image quality and resolution. I definitely recommend this to all researchers. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The fact that this is completely an online tool limits the users, especially in regions where the internet is not accessible. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biorender is making scientific illustrations and presentation easier for researchers. ### 23. Great resource for graduate students and researchers! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I use BioRender regularly to make publication-quality figures, especially multipanel or methods-based figures. As a PhD student, I use it all the time for manuscripts, grant applications, and presentations. There are numerous icons - even very specific science-related icons for lab and sequencing equipment. It's easy to use, easy to align and make visually appealing figures, and easy to import custom images, plots, or icons for full customization! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I find the free version of BioRender still useful until the export - which is limited to low quality and limited usage rights. To use BioRender for figures in a publication, it's unfortunately necessary to have the paid version. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to BioRender, I used Powerpoint to make scientific figures, which is very limited. BioRender completely transformed the level of figures I'm able to make. ### 24. Quick and Easy for Research Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I like having the pre-made icons in BioRender to help me get started. The icons are easily edited and customized to meet my needs. The support team is also very helpful in providing design tips and responding to suggestions. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** BioRender does not have many icons in the engineering/chemistry area. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use BioRender to make figures for scientific presentations. The figures help me clearly communicate my experiments and findings. ### 25. Biorender makes making figures easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mckenna H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I like all the preformulated figures which is especially useful chemists who did a tiny bit of biology like me. It makes it so much easier to make figures since I don't have to make them from scratch. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** There is nothing I dislike! I just wish I did more biology and could use it more! **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes figure making so much less time consuming! ### 26. Publication-quality scientific figure creation made easy! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayesha Sahir M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Easy to use and user-friendly collection of features to create publication-quality figures with great customer service **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Might get an error if using any other browser other than Google Chrome **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is always a big timesink when you try to create publication-quality bio research figures, as it is hard to create nice and realistic icons of animal models or experimental setups. BioRender has been the fastest and most user-friendly way to create amazing schematics for my projects. The alignment tool and wide array of icons vastly simplify creating figures for manuscripts or presentations with my imaging data. ### 27. BioRender is a helpful tool for creating publication-quality biological figures. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kathleen N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I like the flexibility and degree of customizability that BioRender offers for biological figure creation. It is easy to use with clear, user-friendly instructions from a point-and-click interface which offers advantages to other figure creation tools. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I find the pro subscription is very expensive, especially for students on limited budgets. Their option for group licenses is one way to get around this, but I still feel that their services are relatively cost-prohibitive given that they are targeting academics. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biological figure creation. ### 28. Saving me so much time in grad school! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satya K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Biorender is like if PowerPoint and Photoshop had a baby that's easier to use than both of them and designed specifically for making conceptual diagrams. I love how user friendly it is, all the templates (including posters), and the ability to easily edit icons and shapes and import your own. Audiences are always impressed by my professional diagrams in presentations, when in reality they only took about 10 minutes to make in Biorender. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The free version should be more generous with the number of illustrations you can save and allow high quality versions of those illustrations. Also the illustration and icon databases should include more Ecology content (the content in Biorender leans more toward molecular biology with medical applications). **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to easily convey scientific information to audiences in diagram format. ### 29. Very good for generating high-quality scientific images **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** José Q. | Lecturer in Poultry Health, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Templates are amazing and the app is very easy to use. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** It is not associated with my university and annual fees are quite high **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Producing high-quality images ### 30. Win for science communication! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kari T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** As a PhD student, I use BioRender to make figures constantly. I use them to make graphical representations of protocols, figues for talks/posters/pubs, explaining scientific concepts to undergrads, etc. As a visual learner (and teacher), I can better understand and explain complicated concepts if I have a visual representation. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Cost of a premium account can be steep for PhD students living on a stipend. Luckily my department recently negotiated a user license! **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier to acheive science communication to a lay audience or colleagues outside of my field. ### 31. Great tool for those who don't have the time or interest in using Illustrator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anahita V. | Science Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** The UX is probably what I love best about BioRender. It's intuitive, easy to use, and clean design. The ability to organize projects by folders is also very helpful. I would definitely recommend the app to others! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I don't think there is currently anything I disklike about the software. Initially (when they first started out) the number of graphics was still somewhat limited but that has since changed. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating illustrations for oral presentations and other deliverables in which we're required to communciate our science clearly to other scientists and, in some cases, to the public. The tool has also been used as a teaching software in a science communication course I co-instructed. ### 32. BioRender is the best for making figures! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denise G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I absolutely love Biorender for making scientific figures. I struggle to communicate science sometimes and BioRender is excellent at gathering my thoughts. The figures that Biorender has are so cute and accurate! They have so many figures to choose from which makes it great when you are trying to communicate your experiments with others! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I do not dislike anything about BioRender. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender is helping me make complicated figures easier. It is also helping me communicate science alot easier! ### 33. BioRender is Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is an extremely user-friendly platform that has a large bank of scientific images for creating figures and diagrams. BioRender is highly useful for preparation of figures in scientific research articles, scientific talks, slides for teaching, and general communication of science visually in an accessible manner. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** One improvement that would make BioRender more useful for making full and complete scientific figures would be better integration with GraphPad Prism such that graphs could be copy and pasted into the platform and keep the metadata (as is the case with CorelDraw, PowerPoint, etc.). This would permit greater ability to make complete figures in BioRender (as opposed to using BioRender to create pieces of scientific figures that are ultimately assembled/completed in some other program. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender benefits my scientific research by faciliating enhanced communication of my work through accessible images and diagrams. BioRender also improves my undergraduate teaching by enabling quick and efficient assembly of scientific cartoons for lecture slides and/or exam questions. ### 34. Excellent resource for PhD students in STEM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kassidy J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I love the plethora of images and resources available in Biorender that I can use and apply when making presentations/publications of my research findings. The interface is incredibly easy to learn/apply and my work always looks polished and professional. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** While there are already a myriad of images predesigned on Biorender, it could be useful to have even more of them available so that you don't have to sometimes design your own images. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biorender is solving how to present science in an easy to understand way and how to keep your audiences engaged in your work. Biorender makes it easy for anyone of any background to design figures, which is a huge win for scientific communication. ### 35. Perfectly captures my vision **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Magdalene E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** I like that I am able to create scientific figures without having to start from scratch. The myriad of templates and other features help capture and create the image that I have in mind. In additon, it adds a neat and professional look to my figures. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** It would be helpful to have more features for those who are using the free version. For example, increasing the limit of cavnases to work with from 5 to 10 or more could be helpful. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** For those who lack artistic abilities or have a hard time creating schematics BioRender is there to guide them. With the different templates, it gives us a starting point to build from. ### 36. Changed the way I communicate research forever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirk H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender has so many useful animations, cartoons, schematics, templates, and functions that make PowerPoint feel like something medieval. Extremely user-friendly, easy to navigate, and a variety of export features make this a top-notch tool. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The biggest downside about BioRender is the cost to use the premium service. Not terribly expensive for the features available, but something to seriously consider prior to purchase. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communicating science more effectively. I have more time for my research and can make more impactful statements with BioRender. ### 37. Lightweight but powerful and simple to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** YS L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** The software is lightweight and can be used on a web browser. The user interface design is straightforward, easy to understand and simple enough and can be learnt by new and old personnel alike. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Only subsciption based model available. I understand this is the current favored model for a lot of softwares, but in terms of the templates available and functionality of the software, I woud prefer to have a one-time purchase and eventual upgrade to a new version when there are more attractive features introduced. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prepare professional looking lab reports, presentation, scientific journal or publications with ease. ### 38. A great tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarin A. | Ph.D. Candidate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is very helpful for making schematics in a very effective manner. I have been extensively using BioRender for over a year now. I use it mainly for my lab meetings and conference presentations. I like the high-resolution images BioRender has. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I don't think I have anything to dislike about BioRender. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender is constantly updating the icons which is actually beneficial. ### 39. Great tool for STEM communicators **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan D. | Co-Founder and COO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Many great icons and graphics, with a lot of available personalization options. Easy to import data and integrate into other digital tools **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Prohibitively expensive in many cases. The graph tool (unfortunatly) does not provide powerful statistics capabilities. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a PhD candidate working in protien engineering. BioRender helps me to prepare figures for presentations and papers ### 40. BioRender is an amazing and easy to use tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is incredibly easy to use and there are also many resources for people who are just starting to use it. I use it pretty regularly for my own presentations and I enjoy how I can easily integrate it with my powerpoints. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I hope to see more experimental templates for others to use **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows for seamless science communication ### 41. BioRender's review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jarin T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** It has vast library of predesigned icons and tools which helps to make a professional level diagram with in a very short time. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Less compatibility with other software,, **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender provides me an opportunity to create high-quality figures within a short time period. It helps me during my presentations and paper writing. ### 42. Very intuitive diagram builder for biologists **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alice C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is super user-friendly and has a really good variety of icons and templates if you don't know where to start. Everything you create will look very professional and get you lots of complements at conferences! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Images created in the free version have limited liscenced uses, so if you're creating figures for publications you will need to use the paid version. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender removes the barrier between science and comunication through graphic design by providing an easy to use platform with pretty fool-proof template to create professional looking figures and posters. ### 43. Amazing tool for Grad School **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaci K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender has been amazing in creating illustrations for all of my presentations and posters during my PhD. Not only is it easy to create illustrations but the number of pre-made illustrations from other creators is amazing! **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Nothing! Easy to use and fully customizable! **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily creating graphics for presntations thus saving me valuable time during my PhD. ### 44. Good amount of scientific icons, still many to add **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sareh M. | Scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Basic laboratory icons to make a professional presentation **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Free version comes with very little variation of icons and image export options are low quality. Also it would be a lot better if it was possible to make the presentation directly in bio render and not to have to export images one by one **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biorender let's usage of laboratory tools icons to visualize the work flow of an experiment ### 45. High-quality illustration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender has thousands of tools and images that can be manipulated easily to create a high-quality figures and illustrations. Also, the illustrations can be saved and modified if needed. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I used BioRender several times in the last couple of years and don't have any complaints or issues with it. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Does not apply. ### 46. Wonderful resource for scientists! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is a great tool for scientists, researchers, students, really anyone, to make simple (or complex) figures and graphics to visualize their concept. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I wish there were more icons! There are times where I am looking for a specific icon that doesn't exist **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender has helped me make beautiful looking figures for presentations and publications ### 47. Best digital tool for science communication materials **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2024 **What do you like best about BioRender?** It is very easy to use and it has a big inventory of icons that include items from different scientific fields. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** I would include more font types and animation tools. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create easy to understand graphical abstracts and it makes it fast an easy to generate figures. ### 48. A game changer for scientific illustration and communication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** User-friendly interface, extensive library, collaboration features, and commitment to staying current with scientific advancements are some of the reasons I use BioRender. It significantly enhances the process of creating visuals for scientific communication and research. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Subscription fees is relatively high, compatibility issues with certain browsers, must have an internet connection to access and use the platform, **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** BioRender simplifies the creation of accurate scientific visuals, promoting collaboration, and providing access to up-to-date scientific knowledge visuals. It addresses common challenges in scientific communication and research visualization, ultimately facilitating the dissemination of science research. ### 49. BioRender allows me to produce professional scientific cartoons **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tamiris A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** BioRender is an excellent software for building scientific figures, schemes, and cartoons. They provide ready-made scientific icons, making it easier to put your ideas in a graphic format. I've been using it for years, and I always have good feedback for my figures. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** The company could provide more accessible prices for users from low-income countries. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building scientific figures without necessary design skills. ### 50. Great for so many things **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elisabeth M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about BioRender?** Biorender is a fantastic resource for designing figures for papers, teaching illustrations and science communication. I've used it for many years now and have found it to be the easiest way to design things I need. I highly recommend them. **What do you dislike about BioRender?** Can take a minute to orient to the format of the application. **What problems is BioRender solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making illustrations or graphical abstracts with science shapes is hard in other platforms. 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