NextELN

The electronic lab notebook that's actually free for scientists

A modern ELN + inventory for academic and government labs — free, funded, and full-featured. Low-cost for biotech. A fraction of the price of LabArchives.

Notebooks & pages

Rich text with tables, images, and file attachments — organized in notebooks and categories.

Extensible data & inventory

Define your own inventory item types and structured tables with no code. Import Excel, auto-detect types.

Real-time co-editing

Multiple lab members edit the same page live, with version history and audit trails.

Compliance-ready

E-signatures, witnessing, immutable revision history, and full audit logs.

Sequence viewer

View and annotate DNA/RNA/plasmid maps right in your notebook.

Your data, your database

Start free on us; when you grow, connect your own Postgres (Aiven, Supabase, Neon, AWS) and we migrate your data automatically.

Simple, honest pricing

Free

$0

University & government scientists

  • Full ELN + inventory
  • Generous free workspace
  • Bring your own database when you grow
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Team

Low cost

Biotech & industry labs

  • Everything in Free
  • More seats & larger files
  • Priority support
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Enterprise

Custom

Large biotech & CROs

  • SSO / SAML
  • API access
  • SLA & dedicated success
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