Benchling Alternatives

Benchling is described as 'Online lab notebook software, including DNA design tools' and is an website in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Benchling, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux and SaaS apps. The best Benchling alternative is Chromas, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Benchling are BioEdit, Genophore, SnapGene Viewer and PDRAW32.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Benchling alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Chromas icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Two software applications are available from Technelysium: Chromas and ChromasPro.

    27 Chromas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Chromas is the most popular Windows alternative to Benchling.

    • Chromas is the most popular free alternative to Benchling.

    • Chromas is Freemium and ProprietaryBenchling is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. BioEdit icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    BioEdit is a biological sequence alignment editor written for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7. An intuitive multiple document interface with convenient features makes alignment and manipulation of sequences relatively easy on your desktop computer.

    28 BioEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Genophore icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Genophore is an application for searching and designing proteins. It also provides a suite of bioinformatics utilities and collaboration tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Genophore is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Benchling.

    • Genophore is Free Personal and ProprietaryBenchling is also Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    SnapGene Viewer is revolutionary software that allows molecular biologists to create, browse, and share richly annotated DNA sequence files up to 1 Gb in length.

    30 SnapGene Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    |
    1
    Comments about SnapGene Viewer as an Alternative to Benchling
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    You can view more than a few hundred base pairs at a time

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Benchling Icon
    SnapGene Viewer icon
    • SnapGene Viewer is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Benchling.

    • SnapGene Viewer is Free Personal and ProprietaryBenchling is also Free Personal and Proprietary
  5. PDRAW32 icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Scientific software for the molecular biologist. Performs virtual DNA cloning, analyses DNA for restriction enzymes, homing enzymes and primer sites, dam and dcm methylation sites, finds and translates open reading frames. Calculates annealing temperatures for PCR.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Findings icon
     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Findings is your lab notebook, reinvented. With Findings, you can easily keep track of your experiments and your research: your lab notebook is always with you and always up to date, be it on the field, at the bench, or at a conference.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Findings is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Benchling.

    • Findings is Freemium and ProprietaryBenchling is Free Personal and Proprietary
  7. Geneious icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Geneious combines all the major DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one revolutionary software solution!

    28 Geneious alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Geneious is the most popular commercial alternative to Benchling.

    • Geneious is Paid and ProprietaryBenchling is Free Personal and Proprietary
  8. Serial Cloner icon
     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Serial Cloner is a Molecular Biology software.

    It provides tools with an intuitive interface that assists you in DNA cloning, sequence analysis and visualization.

    25 Serial Cloner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. DNADynamo icon
     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    DNADynamo - for Windows, OSX and Linux. Download it now for abi/scf trace alignments, sub cloning and plasmid management, blast/sequence retrieval, sequence annotation and structure viewing - all in one integrated and easy to use bioinformatics program.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Snthesis icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    The Snthesis Bio platform automatically integrates and harmonizes all your research data. Source agnostic. Search everything.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Scifeon icon
     Like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    A modern digital platform combining LIMS and ELN in a modular, compliant system for biotech and pharma labs. It supports fast deployment, audit trails, automated workflows, and real-time dashboards.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
12 of 27 Benchling alternatives