Who is PaperFig for? Mainly bioengineers, especially when showing a device, a construct and the biology around it. Bioengineering figures have to show engineering and biology in one frame. PaperFig approaches it differently. You can begin with a plain-language description, a hand sketch, a photo, a reference figure, or a PDF. It is not limited to one field; the gallery runs from biomedical and materials work to energy, environmental, bioengineering, CS/AI and geoscience. The focus is research figures such as mechanisms, workflows and graphical abstracts. People use it to draft figures for manuscripts, build graphical abstracts, prepare grant diagrams, and make slides for lab meetings. Signing up is free, with 150 credits to start (valid for 30 days) and 1 free figure per day for the first 7 days. It gives you a draft to review, not a finished submission, so check the details against your journal’s guidelines.
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