ResearchOS

About ResearchOS

ResearchOS is the free, local-first lab notebook. This is its mobile companion, the bench in your pocket. Capture results, run your protocols step by step, do the quick math, and keep the lab stocked, from your phone, synced to the workspace you own.

Your data stays yours. Everything lives in a folder on your own computer, not on a vendor's server. The phone works offline and pairs to your desktop, so nothing is trapped in someone else's cloud.

At the bench:
- Capture results. Photograph a gel, plate, or whiteboard, mark it up, and send it straight to the right experiment. Add a quick typed note in seconds.
- Run protocols. Pull up any method from your library and run it step by step, with timers wired to each step so a long incubation keeps time for you. Download your methods for offline use.
- Lab calculators. Run the everyday bench math without leaving the app, and build your own custom calculators.
- Track inventory. Scan a package barcode, glance at the room map, and drop low stock into a reorder queue while you stand at the shelf.
- Stay on top of the day. See today's tasks and your lab calendar at a glance, with suggestions for your active experiment.
- Read and reference. Open your lab wiki and protocols anywhere.
- Get notified. Push alerts when a labmate shares or mentions you, or a task comes due.

Why ResearchOS:
- Free. No subscription, no per-seat fees, no in-app purchases, no ads.
- Local-first. Your research is plain files in a folder you own. Leaving is just closing a folder.
- Open source. Anyone can read exactly how it works.
- Built for real labs by researchers, not a vendor renting you your own data.

The desktop app stays your main workspace for the deep work, writing up experiments, chemistry, sequence design, and statistics. The phone handles everything the bench needs.

Own your science. Learn more at research-os.app.