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T cell–tumor immune synapse illustration
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Built for modern scientific communication workflows

Create every figure your research needs

Text, sketch, photo, or paper in. Journal figures, graphical abstracts, and posters out.

BY TEXT

Text to figure

Type a mechanism, pathway, or workflow. FigPad drafts a journal figure in the same studio you already use.

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Text to figure

Use cases

Built for every research moment

One studio for journal figures, slides, teaching visuals, grants, and paper abstracts.

Journal articles

Journal articles

Create detailed figures and diagrams that clearly communicate complex research to journal readers.

Conference presentations

Conference presentations

Design slides that hold attention and explain findings without crowding the frame.

Teaching materials

Teaching materials

Develop clear classroom visuals that help students grasp scientific concepts faster.

Grant proposals

Grant proposals

Illustrate research plans with visuals that help review panels see the idea quickly.

Thesis & dissertations

Thesis & dissertations

Create professional figures that raise the standard of academic manuscripts.

Graphical abstract

Graphical abstract

Turn a paper story into a one-screen summary that captures the finding at a glance.

Published style

Browse figure examples.

Layouts and styles researchers actually use.

Hover an example and choose Use this to recreate it in the workspace. The figure is attached as a visual reference; you write the prompt.

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CellPressIF 45.5
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T-cell and tumor synapse with checkpoint contacts

cell biologyIF 21.3
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Acidic niche sugar shield blocks ferroptosis

CellMetabolismIF 27.7
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Organelle-delivery cutaway for transplantation

medicineIF 58.7
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Oxygen gradient and stiff hypoxic stroma in the tumor niche

biomedical engineeringIF 26.6
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Organ-on-chip with mixer, culture chambers and membrane flow

communicationsIF 14.7
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Organoid trapping in a serpentine microfluidic chip

IF 50.5
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CRISPR cut-and-repair mechanism

cell biologyIF 21.3
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Intact versus disassembled cytoskeleton with readout

methodsIF 40.1
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Four-panel methods board from isolation to readout

ScienceAdvancesIF 11.7
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Iterate–validate cycle from hypothesis to deployment

machine intelligenceIF 23.9
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Dual-stream encoder with adapter blocks and decoder mask

computational scienceIF 12.0
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Multi-agent extraction, synthesis and adaptation pipeline

machine intelligenceIF 23.9
Use this

Adaptive reasoning paths across query difficulty

communicationsIF 14.7
Use this

Co-scheduling EVs and storage in an integrated energy system

ScienceAdvancesIF 11.7
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Multi-source IES with conversion, storage and V2B demand

machine intelligenceIF 23.9
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Controller routing queries through an agentic supernet

computational scienceIF 12.0
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Paper-promotion agents from extraction to packaging

communicationsIF 14.7
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Urban expansion impact on vegetation carbon sequestration

IF 50.5
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Metal-based nanomaterials for delivery and catalysis

communicationsIF 14.7
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Ecosystem services, urbanization and SDG pathways

IF 50.5
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Bacteria–nanomaterial synergy for cancer biotherapy

biomedical engineeringIF 26.6
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Biological behavior of zinc-based orthopedic implants

ScienceAdvancesIF 11.7
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EV fleet dispatch with P2G–CCS conversion pathways

machine intelligenceIF 23.9
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Encoder–reasoner–decoder with cross-scale skip paths

IF 50.5
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Coupled human–natural systems across landscape mosaics

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Generation, editing, and export.

You can upload hand-drawn sketches, structure drafts, flowchart blocks, or low-fidelity layouts and turn them into a more complete scientific figure draft.

  • Keep the core structure: It works well when you already know the modules, arrows, or information hierarchy and want cleaner visuals.
  • Useful for early exploration: Especially helpful for paper figures, mechanism diagrams, workflows, and graphical abstracts.

The goal is to reference the composition, color palette, and visual language of the uploaded figure, then generate a version that better fits your own scientific content.

  • Not a direct copy: It is meant to borrow style direction, not duplicate the original content.
  • Better for academic adaptation: You can use a journal figure you like as a stylistic starting point for your own topic.

Yes. FigPad is designed to help you keep refining the figure instead of stopping at a flat output.

  • Keep editing: Useful for adjusting labels, colors, module positions, and content emphasis.
  • Reduce redraw work: Generate the first draft quickly, then iterate toward a submission-ready version.

Yes. That is one of the main reasons to use vectorization in a scientific figure workflow.

  • Good for follow-up editing: You can keep adjusting text, colors, and composition in downstream tools.
  • Better for publication and slides: Vector-style outputs are easier to scale and reuse across papers, posters, and presentations.

Yes. Those are the main scientific communication use cases this workflow is intended to support.

  • Paper figures: Useful for mechanism diagrams, experiment workflows, and concept illustrations.
  • Slides and posters: Also a good fit for lab meetings, talks, defenses, and academic presentations.

The focus is on formats that fit both scientific editing workflows and common delivery needs.

  • Editable formats: SVG and PPTX for continued layout and design refinement.
  • Raster output: PNG for easy insertion into manuscripts, slides, and docs.

Yes, for paper figures, graphical abstracts, posters, and academic decks. Before final submission, it is still worth checking the journal's exact formatting requirements.

  • Do a final review: Check labels, font size, contrast, export size, and overall layout consistency.
  • Best used as a fast production workflow: Get to the right figure faster, then polish it for the target venue.

Credits are consumed per operation based on the type of task.

  • Generate figure (image): 2 credits per generation.
  • Convert to SVG (vectorize): 4 credits per conversion.

You can check your remaining credits at any time in the top-right corner of the workspace.

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