SciNote 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

SciNote

4.5

(62)

Pricing

Starting at $0.01 per year

About SciNote

SciNote Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) is a cloud-based lab data management solution that helps laboratories manage, store and access lab information on a centralized platform.

SciNote allows organizations to sort available data based on projects or tasks and automatically generate reports. Managers can add comments in tasks and tag required team members, improving team collaboration. Researchers can set up workflows through a drag and drop interface, and use protocol templates and tasks within experiments. SciNote also offers inventory management functionalities, allowing labs to manage and track inventory, and set stock alerts.

SciNote can help labs meet compliance requirements of FDA CFR 21 part 11 and GxP. It comes with strong security measures and supports e-signatures and audit trails. It comes with several popular integration, most notably with Microsoft Office. Additionally, users can integrate the platform with third-party applications and instruments through RESTful API.

In addition to the features SciNote has to offer, it comes with top-rated customer support and onboarding - so you will be guided in your transition to SciNote ELN.

SciNote Screenshots

SciNote Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $0.01 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$0.01

per user, per year

No plan information available

SciNote Features

Popular features found in Medical Lab
Audit Management
Calibration Management
Compliance Management
Data Import/Export
EMR/EHR
Inventory Management
Lab Instruments Integration
Lab Order Management
Secure Data Storage
Test Panels
Workflow Management
More features of SciNote
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Approval Process Control
Audit Trail
Barcode/Label Management
Barcode Printing
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Barcoding/RFID
Collaboration Tools
Configurable Workflow
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Management
Data Security
Data Storage Management
Digital Signature
Document Management
Document Storage
Electronic Laboratory Notebook
Electronic Signature
File Sharing
For Labs
Inventory Tracking
Lab Results
Project Management
Project Tracking
Protocol/SOP Management
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Records Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Rules-Based Workflow
Sample Management
Scheduling
Summary Reports
Task Management
Template Management
Templates
Third-Party Integrations

SciNote User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

55%

39%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.2

Joan M.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2023

Opinion Nano1Health

Overall our experience is good, we will continue to use it in the foreseeable future and probably recommend it to other teams of our section and around it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

At Nano1Health we like to be a 0 paper company. Reality sometimes makes that difficult but at least with Scinote we can manage to reduce it a lot. We can access anywhere the data that we need in a matter of seconds, and anyone in the team is able to access samples and codes when required.

Cons:

Sometimes, due to its structure its difficult for some members of the team to find what they are looking for and therefore don't use it that much (just ask the other members by mail). Sometimes it is not very flexible for customizing columns of templates or other hard-set services. Finally, price. Its per-user licensing makes it expensive, especially for small enterprises, in which everybody needs to have access but the revenue is not very big

Vendor Response

Hello Joan. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about SciNote! SciNote has a projects/experiments/tasks hierarchy that's different from paper notebooks (or from other online notebooks). There are a few places where filters/searches are available to help team members locate what they need. Do feel free to connect with your CSM Eva to explore these options - we are here to help! Some aspects of SciNote are not as flexible because we designed the product to meet regulatory requirements. While SciNote is priced competitively, we understand that any cost could be challenging for small enterprises - we would love to see how we can help your team get the most out of SciNote. Do let us know how if there is anything we can do to support this. Thank you again for choosing SciNote!

Replied January 2024

Erin M.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed December 2023

SciNote Review

There have been great improvements since I started using it. Once protocols are made it is very easy to use but making the templates can be tedious

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like the idea of having an online lab notebook for everyone in a department to see and sign off on without having to use multiple apps

Cons:

The format of the notes section. I wish it was more like word where everything moves with you. Also I wish there was a way to enter equations easier

Nicole C.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed April 2021

The best so far

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The feature of having a place where you can have your protocols & just upload them to the experiments is nice. I like how I can share it with my colleagues too

Cons:

The formatting isn't the easiest to figure out. I wish there was a way to draw/write into the notebook.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the feedback - we agree, writing and drawing is truly useful. Thank you for sharing the idea! At the moment, mobile devices offer some additional modes of data input. Virtual keyboard on your tablet or smartphone allows you to enter handwritten notes, which are directly converted into a digital format in any text field in SciNote. More info is here: https://www.scinote.net/scinotesolutions-efficiency-productivity-in-scientific-laboratories/#6

Replied April 2021

Jarrett J.

Verified reviewer

Research

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2021

Great, needs changes.

The benefits of SciNote are vast and I know it has assuredly made work in our laboratory more efficient. All in all, I have enjoyed using the SciNote platform for our ELN and would recommend it to colleagues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like that overall, it is easy to access experiments and link protocols. I also like the Reports feature, especially that you are able to save them for access at a later time. The progress features are also helpful, in that it allows efficient communication about the status of a particular task or tasks.

Cons:

I find that Tables tend to be difficult to work with and also the lack of user-friendly calendar integration frustrating. For example, being able to easily add tasks to Google Calendar based on their due dates and end dates.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the feedback, we are glad to hear you like the reports features in SciNote. Also, thank you for great ideas for further improvements. Appreciated!

Replied June 2021

Emre K.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2023

Scintoe is very useful strongly suggeting it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

You can keep your notes in an organized format. Share information with your team through it. It does not get lost. Much easier to find your notes later on, instead of getting through paper notebooks. I think it is 100% necessary, if you are working on multiple projects.

Cons:

Changing between folders is time consuming. However, SciNote sacrificed some speed to make it look more organized in my opinion. Also, copying a set of experiment steps from project to another is problematic as it is not always easy to find the target destination folder in the drop-down menu.

Brendan V.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2023

SciNote - A great ELN for many different applications

Fantastic product and service; would recommend to any lab

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to be 21 CFR 11 compliant, easy of use, visibility, customizations, security, and permission levels. Customer service is fantastic and responsive.

Cons:

Not many cons, it would be nice if we were able to enable SciNote's updated on our own instead of automatic but there has not been an update we did not like.

Chris M.

Verified reviewer

Chemicals

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2023

SciNote Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to create a hyperlink to other tasks/experiments makes it incredibly easy to reference past work.

Cons:

The updates are very frequent and often times don't seem to make any substantial improvements making it frustrating to navigate.

Vendor Response

Hello Chris. Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. If you were referring to our smart annotation system - glad that you found cross-referencing within SciNote is easy! We are working on revamping our update schedule, so you should see some improvements there. I will also pass this on to our product team so they are aware of this. Thank you again for choosing SciNote!

Replied January 2024

David D.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2021

Solid ELN, best for larger organizations/labs

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As the PUI faculty, my lab is comprised of all undergraduate students. This software is very user-friendly and intuitive for my students. It makes data entry and tracking easy. The ability for my student to share protocols across project is a huge benefit.

Cons:

There is no ability to customize the functionality of the software. There are several feature that would be fantastic if the lab were much larger. However, given out size and scope those features (manuscript writer, inventory tracking, etc...) don't make a lot of sense for us. This ELN is on the expensive side so it would be nice to be able to tailor the software a little more to the needs of the end-user with the price reflecting the final functionality.

Vendor Response

We are glad to hear SciNote is user-friendly and intuitive for the students. Thank you for the feedback! We'd be glad to answer any questions related to the SciNote functionalities and customizations, feel free to contact our team anytime.

Replied June 2021

Elvira P.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2023

Easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very easy to train chemists to use the system. Once they use it, it's easy to review what was done in the electronic lab notebook.

Cons:

The inventory tables are not as easy to navigate. I'm used to using SmartSheets and Excel, and some of that functionality isn't in the inventory tables, yet.

Melanie I.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed December 2023

Excellent record keeping tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and excellent support provided.

Cons:

Mistakes require signatures revoked and can take time

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