Lab Laps

Lab Laps opens with a headline that wet-lab researchers will understand immediately: every lab tool, one app. The tool list on the homepage reads like a bench checklist rather than a marketing page. Colony counter. Dilution calculator. Buffer calculator. Molarity calculator. Master mix calculator. Plate labelling. Blood cell counter. Multi timer. Each one is a chore that normally lives in a different app, a spreadsheet, or a lab notebook margin.

The colony counter is the anchor feature, and it is the right one. Counting colonies on a plate is the kind of repetitive, attention-draining task that eats an afternoon when you have twenty plates to read, and manual click-counters lose your place the moment you glance away. Pairing it with protocol tracking and multi-experiment timers addresses the other half of bench life: knowing where you are in a seventeen-step protocol while three timers run in parallel.

The calculators deserve a mention too. Dilution, buffer, molarity, and master mix math is not hard, but it is error-prone at 6pm on a Friday, and a wrong dilution wastes a day of cell culture. Templates for protocols and lab reports round out the package.

Who is this for? Graduate students, technicians, and PIs in biology and chemistry labs who currently juggle half a dozen single-purpose tools. Pricing sits behind a Get Started flow with a downloadable app, and no public email is listed. If your lab still counts colonies by pen and paper, this is the upgrade.