Comparison with Marvin Sketch and Marvin JS

    To provide an easy-to-use publication tool for chemical figures, Marvin comes with a wide range of features to facilitate drawing and enhanced visuals. Meanwhile, our legacy web-based drawing tool, Marvin JS, continues to support workflows involving advanced chemical intelligence.

    For a detailed overview, see the comparison tables between Marvin, Marvin JS and Marvin Sketch further below.

    Publication quality

    Feature Marvin Marvin JS Marvin Sketch
    Coloring and highlighting options for atoms, bonds and shapes YES no no
    Advanced text editor with highlight and list options* YES no no
    Scribble/free hand line YES no no
    Predefined and custom drawing templates YES no YES
    Wide range of arrows, bonds, shapes, symbols and brackets YES no YES
    Import/export and crop multiple image formats YES no no

    *Coming soon

    Fast drawing & analysis

    Feature Marvin Marvin JS Marvin Sketch
    Search bar for templates, chemical elements and tools YES no no
    Setting atom and bond properties in multiselection YES YES no
    Alignment and distribute guidelines to easily organize objects YES no no
    Single click access to webservices and calculations YES YES no
    Display calculation results on canvas YES no no

    Detailed feature comparison

    Coloring and highlighting options for atoms, bonds and shapes

    Feature Marvin Marvin JS Marvin Sketch
    Coloring bonds and atom labels YES no YES
    Coloring atom properties YES no no
    Highlighting bonds and atom labels YES no no
    Customize colors YES no YES

    Advanced text editor with highlight and list options

    Feature Marvin Marvin JS Marvin Sketch
    Change font type & size YES no YES
    Align text YES no YES
    Bulleted list* YES no no
    Coloring text YES no YES
    Highlight text YES no no
    Formula tool YES no no

    *Coming soon

    Additional arrow types, shapes and brackets

    Feature Marvin Marvin JS Marvin Sketch
    Dashed arrow YES no YES
    Crossed arrow YES no YES
    Retrosynthesis arrow YES no YES
    Curved arrow YES no YES
    Circular arrow YES no no
    Unbalanced equilibrium arrow YES no no
    Rearrangement arrow YES no no
    Rectangles, ellipse, line YES no YES
    Sphere, triangle, star, arc YES no no
    Advanced shapes (e.g. scissors, lightbulb, electrolysis) YES no no
    Dashed style for shape strokes YES no no
    Line weight for shape strokes YES no YES
    Shadow for shapes YES no no
    Round and square brackets YES no YES
    Curly bracket YES no no

    Import/export and crop multiple image formats

    Feature Marvin Marvin JS Marvin Sketch
    Copy/paste image YES no no
    Crop image YES no no
    Save selection as image YES no no
    Save as JPEG YES YES no
    Save as PNG, SVG, WebP, TIFF YES no no