In our company, we're passionate about science: both in research, but especially in teaching. Communicating science is vitally important, and that's why we chose to specialise in scientific software. We wanted to find better ways to communicate the complexities - and beauties - of crystals and molecules.

Whereas traditional, "ball-and-stick" representations can look pretty, they are static, and invariably one can't "see the wood for the trees". That's where software helps. But so much software is either too basic (designed for isolated molecules, not crystals), or far too clunky and inelegant (designed for crystallographers, but not other scientists).

We like to do things differently. Not only do we actively support the Mac (as well as Windows), but we have user-centric design as our prime focus. Our aim is to provide you with the best crystallographic tools, delivered with elegance and ease of use, so you can get more out of your science: crystallography for the rest of us!

CrystalMaker

Our core product, CrystalMaker, provides industry-leading interactive visualization of all kinds of crystal and molecular structures. Use CrystalMaker to read in data from a wide range of formats, to quickly and easily build extended crystal structures, and to seamlessly transform them into different representations.

CrystalMaker is ideal for both teaching and research - and you'll find our new low-cost site licensing and student pricing makes the software even more accessible.

Learn more about our annual site licence.

CrystalDiffract

CrystalMaker can be extended to x-ray and neutron powder diffraction, with our low-cost CrystalDiffract program. CrystalDiffract reads from CrystalMaker binary files and quickly simulates powder diffraction patterns. You can load multiple structures and compare their diffraction properties - or instantly switch to simulate a mixture.

Unlike other programs, CrystalDiffract is fully interactive: you can adjust many parameters in real time, including mixture proportions, particle size, strain, cell parameters, and even site occupancies. As such, CrystalDiffract provides a real "desktop diffractometer".

SingleCrystal

SingleCrystal is our most recent program, allowing you to generate high-resolution stereographic projections of planes and vectors, simulate transmission electron diffraction patterns from thin crystals, and visualize sections of the reciprocal lattice.

Apple Design Award, 2007

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