With Macnification, you can...

Organize all your images

Organize

All your microscopic images, conveniently organized into projects, (smart) folders, light tables and stacks.
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Manage metadata

Keywords

With its unique metadata view, Macnification makes it a snap to view, edit and organize microscope data.
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Track experiments

Experiments

Enter your experiments into Macnification and then simply link images to experiments.
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Easily find images

Spotlight

Macnification integrates with Spotlight and Quick Look to help you quickly find images you want to work with. View screencast

Measure

Measyre

Length, area, perimeter, circularity or color contents: Macnification measures it all. On one image, or on an entire stack. View screencast

Calibrate

Calibrate

With the innovative double-click calibration feature, calibrating an image is easier than ever.
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Export to Numbers or Excel

Numbers

With a single click, you can export measurement data and ROI properties to Numbers or Microsoft Excel for further analysis. View screencast

Auto-analyze

Autoanalyze

Macnification can automatically detect ROIs on a thresholded image to make analyses even faster.
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Adjust images

Adjustments

Macnification offers non-destructive image management, preserving original data throughout the entire process. View screencast

Add scale bars

Scalebar

Adding scale bars can be tedious. With Macnification, you simply pick the color, size, font and position and you are done. View screencast

Create a montage

Montage

Need to quickly print images or create a PDF file that combines images with image metadata? Montages are the answer. View screencast

Visualize stacks

Stack

Leveraging the power of Core Animation, Macnification offers probably the most stunning view of your stacks on any platform. View screencast

Create time-lapse movies

Timelapse

Creating a QuickTime movie of a time-lapse stack? With Macnification, the movie is even better.
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Extended focal imaging

EFI

Take advantage of the fastest EFI implementation on any platform to combine the sharpest areas of an image stack into one sharp image.
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Compare images

Compare

Light tables make it a snap to freely arrange and compare images. You can even resize images based on their magnification.
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Stitch images

Stitch

For objects that don't fit onto one image, Macnification provides powerful stitching functionality.
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Easily export images

Minibrowser

With the Mini Browser, images can be dragged from Macnification to virtually any other application.
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Create a z-slice

Slice

Create a virtual cut through any stack and drag the slicing line to get a stunning live preview.
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Macnification leverages Leopard

These are just some of the technologies used by Macnification.

64-bit

64bit

With full support for 64-bit, Macnification is ready to handle your most demanding image analysis tasks, now and in the future.

Grand Central Dispatch

GCD

Thanks to Grand Central Dispatch, Macnification can distribute tasks to multiple processor cores in the most efficient way.

Core Animation

Coreanimation

Throughout Macnification, Core Animation provides subtle and helpful hints on what is happening within the application.



Quick Look

Quicklook

When searching with Spotlight, previews of Macnification images are shown using Quick Look, for an optimal search experience.

Spotlight

Spotlight

Use the power of Spotlight to search microscopic images and their metadata. It's simply amazing.

ImageKit

Imagekit

Macnification is a poster child for ImageKit adoption, providing high performance, hardware accelerated image handling.

Time Machine

Timemachine

Time Machine provides automatic and reliable backups for your entire library of microscopic images. Never again risk losing hours of microscopy work.

Core Image

Coreimage

From non-destructive image adjustments to custom made Image Units that provide state of the art EFI functionality, Core Image takes center stage.

Mail

Mail

Top-notch integration with Apple Mail makes it a snap to email images to other scientists around the world.

QTKit

Qtkit

Building on QTKit, Macnification allows the creation of time-lapse movies from image stacks, featuring a live preview.

Multi-core

Multicore

Macnification takes full advantage of multiple processor cores, leveraging NSOperation for optimal workload management.

Numbers

Numbers

Macnification allows scientists to open measurement results in Numbers with a single click, leveraging this innovative spreadsheet app.

Core Data

Searching, editing and saving tens of thousands of images is only possible thanks to Core Data, the reliable persistence framework from Apple.

Objective-C 2.0

Development of Macnification has been helped tremendously by leveraging time-saving functionality in Objective-C 2.0 such as fast enumeration and properties.