OpenSketch
Create publication-ready scientific figures in your browser
Details
- External ID
- 1250668
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenSketch
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Design Tools, Science, Illustration, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Description
OpenSketch is a free diagram and figure editor for scientific workflows to use in papers, presentations and posters. Here, you can combine scientific illustrations with editable shapes, labels and connectors, and export as formats such as SVG, PNG, PDF, PPTX and more. The app currently comes with a set of ~1000 biomedical SVG assets (detailed & simplified illustration modes) following a coherent design theme, all created with GPT-6 Astra.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document and PDF utility tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- scientific figure editor for researchers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an interactive canvas can be scaffolded using libraries like Fabric.js or Konva, building a reliable vector graphic editor with complex scientific illustration assets, parametric connectors, and high-fidelity multi-format exports (PDF, PPTX, SVG) requires non-trivial engineering.
What it would actually take: The frontend would typically rely on Canvas/SVG manipulation engines (e.g., Fabric.js, Pixi.js, or Paper.js) along with a curated library of scientific SVG paths. The hardest parts are layout constraints (smart sticky connectors, port binding), robust bidirectional shape manipulation, and faithful client/server-side conversion to formats like PPTX (using pptxgenjs or backend tools) and vector-perfect PDF printing.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #19 of 61 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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