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

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

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