BioRender Product Updates

Everything you need to know about the latest features in BioRender

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Written by Stefan Pintaric
Updated over a week ago

📈 Updates to Templates

Feb 16th, 2023

  • Creator profile included under their template

  • Search by creator/author in template gallery

  • Views and use counts available

  • New sort by "Popular" (use count)

🔠 Spellcheck

Jan 9, 2023

  • Spelling mistakes are embarrassing. Users should know that they made a spelling mistake in the app before exporting/printing/publishing their work.

🎨 Creative Team Public Portfolios

Nov 29, 2022

  • The Science Designers at BioRender have created Public Portfolios and linked some of their published templates to showcase.

  • Users can view the public portfolios and use the templates from this view.

👥 Custom Groups

Nov 10, 2022

  • Scientists can be working on multiple projects with multiple teams, create multiple custom groups with the people you work with

  • All premium organizations will now have a "Default group" to easily share assets with Only users on organizational plans can create a custom group.

    • All user can join a custom group if they are invited by an organizational user.

🏢 Organizational default groups for sharing is live!

September 6th, 2022

  • All premium organizations will now have a "Default group" to easily share assets with everyone in their organization.

  • Users with an Admin role on organizations will be able to share with the default group. All users in the org will be able to see assets shared with the default group.

🖌 Editor update

August 18th, 2022

Removed duplicate & delete buttons from the slides panel

  • Can still duplicate & delete slides via keyboard shortcuts or right clicking on the slide


🎨 Keeping text styles when copying text and pasting it into BioRender

August 4th, 2022

Formatting that gets kept when copying from another app

  • Bold

  • Italics

  • Underline

  • Subscript

  • Superscript


↕️ Vertically aligning text in a text box

August 2nd, 2022

From the properties panel, you now have the ability to top align (default), center align, or bottom align their text


🤝 Share modal & other small updates

July 27th, 2022

Looking to improve the sharing with teams (groups) experience and required some share modal updates in order to support those changes.

See our Help Center articles to learn more about the update.


⏺️ Bullets and Numbered Lists

July 20th, 2022

Bullets and numbered lists can now be created via the properties panel or by keyboard shortcuts

See our Help Center article to learn more about the update.


💾 600 DPI Export

July 5, 2022

Extra high quality 600 DPI export to ensure acceptance by journal, available to BioRender Premium users only.


✏️ Ability to edit illustrations in Poster Builder

June 20th, 2022

Ability to edit illustrations you’ve already created after being inserted into the poster in order to tailor the illustration to the poster.


🔤 Better Text

June 20th, 2022

We have now built our own text editor which plays with our app much better. It reduces the number of times text needs to be converted to different formats, reduces the bugginess of text, and improves text performance 💪


🎭 Gallery Redesign

May 10, 2022

Maximizing the potential of your Gallery to help you stay organized and have all our features easy to utilize


📐 Ability to resize images within Poster Builder

April 25th, 2022


📂 Open existing files in a NEW tab

April 20th, 2022

  • Right clicking on an existing illustration the default browser menu will appear. Using the menu, you can now open existing files in a new tab (rather than always opening in the same tab).

  • Keyboard shortcuts are enabled.


👑 Premium Content

March 29th, 2022

  • Content (icons and templates) availability is differentiated between free and premium users.

  • Premium templates are not available for free users and premium icons will appear with watermarks for free users.

  • All templates and icons are watermarked for non-authenticated users.


🔗 Invite Links

March 29th, 2022

All BioRender files can be shared via an invite link that anyone can access and use to collaborate on files.

See our Help Center article to learn more about the change.


📌 Introducing BioRender Poster Builder

March 29, 2022

Stop spending hours resizing and aligning boxes on your poster. Design beautiful research posters in minutes with BioRender's Poster Builder. Experience quick and easy poster-making with this powerful tool, built by scientists for scientists. With Poster builder:

  • ⏳ Save time with fully customizable templates.

  • 📐 Magically resize columns and rows.

  • 🌈 Customize color themes with the click of a button.

  • 🔄 Easily switch from landscape to portrait mode, while keeping your layout.

  • ...and more!


🖌 Editor Updates

Feb 11, 2022

  • Removed the “This feature is in beta” message for slides

  • Removed the keyboard shortcuts and FAQ buttons in the editor

  • Aright-click on any guideline in the canvas, you now have the option to delete all guideline


🔠 Change to how text is justified

Feb 3, 2022

The "justify" text-align option will now justify text with the last line left-aligned. See image below.


✏️ Changes to how you edit

Jan 11, 2022

Edit options for brushes, lines, text, and shapes have moved from the top toolbar to the left Edit menu.

See our Help Center articles to learn more about the change.

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