BioRender is a science illustration tool used to create high-quality diagrams for publications, presentations, posters, patents, and outreach, with no drawing skills required.
$47
per month for an individual scientist or researcher
Procreate
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Savage, headquartered in North Hobart, Tasmania, is dedicated to making exceptional creative tools. They are the creators of Procreate, a digital art and illustration app for iPad. Offering 100s of handmade brushes, a suite of artistic tools, advanced layer system, and its Valkyrie graphics engine — Procreate is designed to enable the creation of expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations and beautiful animations.
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Pricing
BioRender
Procreate
Editions & Modules
Academic - Individual User
$47
per month for an individual scientist or researcher
Industry - Single User
$99
per month for an individual industry scientist or researcher
Academic - Lab
$129
per month for collaborating with and managing a team
Industry - Team
$495
per month for collaborating with and managing a team
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Procreate is great for more free-form, digital art. Miro is more constrained, but better for collaborative brainstorms and hosting different media. Illustrated is more technical, but better for more structured visual designs.
Procreate is the easiest to understand out of all this software. I use it on my iPad, and I find that drawing with the Apple Pencil straight on Procreate is intuitive and simple, unlike using the complicated pen tool on Adobe Illustrator. As I've mentioned earlier, Procreate is …
Procreate is well-suited for any illustrator, whether they're a beginner or an expert. It offers a vast range of features that will allow anyone with an artistic inclination to start creating right away. It's also appropriate for budding designers, artists, and animators. While the animation options offered aren't super premium, it is a good place to start learning about animating in layers, e.g., in Photoshop. Procreate isn't suitable for people who want to illustrate vector-based images. The app currently only supports raster images that can't be scaled up.
We broadly use the Adobe suite for other applications, so as Adobe tools have advanced, it is difficult to have an outlier in the toolkit, but Procreate still offers a lot of ease of use and competes with more formal Illustrator tools. We use Illustrator a lot for general design work once they pass initial concepting.
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