Labguru Reviews

We most liked how customizable most features in this ELN are. We can edit the existing inventories, create our own inventories, customize equipment maintenance, and protocols. This has made it easier to easily log and search for scientists' work. It has also made setting up consistent workflows easier.

Uptake has been difficult especially with lab members who are not comfortable with adapting to software that requires a lot of clicking and many different steps to setup features. We also wish there was a way to integrate our purchasing with automatic inventory updates. For now, we have to manually enter new inventory stocks.

Labguru is very user friendly. Although there are still minor things to be tweaked, I like the appearance of the LIMS as a whole and how easy it is for our internal developers to use API and customise the LIMS to fit our needs. It is great with integration with our other sample collection system. It is very easy to import in samples and link experiment and reagent usage to each sample. All actions are tracked and there is a trail log which is super useful if needed for troubleshooting and also for the purpose of auditing and eventually accreditation of our lab. I like that we can customise to get notifications when reagents are running low and when items have expired in addition to when and what maintenance are due for each equipment. Not forgetting it is easy to set up label template and print labels to stick on our lab tubes/plates during our choice of label printer.

At the moment it seems that moving items between storage location is not very specific but this is on their list of things to do to make it better. When we have documents to upload for certain equipment, we cannot yet upload them to specific service date that is logged but only upload to the main equipment inventory page, which is ok but would be great to associate documents to corresponding maintenance event. It would be useful to get notifications at a specified time (i.e. 1 month) prior to reagent expiring and not just when the reagents have expired. Our developer had sorted out customised emails for this (again indicating how easy to customise Labguru to suit our needs) but if this setting could be implemented in Labguru it would be very useful.

User friendly system for storing protocols, writing up experiments, useful inventory for cold storage, equipment, samples etc. Easy to share and witness experiments. helps to manage and organise the lab. Good support from the company.

When trying to import a large amount of data the system sometimes is slow or import fails occasionally. Sometimes the search function fails to find all documents. Otherwise, no problems.

We particularly appreciate the Excel spreadsheet tool and the possibility to connect an experiment to any other element inside LabGuru with the Linked Resources option. In only one year of use, we experienced the platform evolving.

The text processing is tricky, and sometimes the program crashed while working, but this last issue seemed to be solved now.

The platform is very versatile and can be customized depending on your organization's needs. We use the barcoding, inventory management and data management features on a daily basis. We find LabGuru to be a great "all-in-one" LIMS solution.

I really don't have any complaints. Like all platforms, it does take some time to get setup--but the customer support team is very helpful and responsive.

Interface is good and easy to use. Documenting every day work on this lab notebook is optimal.

Word documents can't be add it to page. Also the copy and paste from excel and word is not easy to edit.

Labguru makes collaboration among lab members easier by providing access to various ongoing projects.

Calendar feature could be improved. An add-on making integration possible with other calendar apps might come in handy.

Interconnectivity of experiments, samples, reagents, and equipment, everything can be tracked down.

The price is above average in the market.

Our laboratory has purchased several licenses for Labguru and we have been using it for several years now. 1. One of the biggest advantages of Labguru is that one gets to consolidate all data all content and written matter in one place. So that allows people to be more organized. 2. Besides, most people can then access other's content as well. This may sound bad but is not really, because say I need a protocol for an experiment from my colleague, he tells me exactly what to look for and from which experiment on his Labguru. I simply go and take a look at the protocol instead of bothering him for his notebook or his time. 3. Labguru can be used to maintain instrument usage, bookings, and service which was particularly useful for us during the COVID no contact protocol. 4. Also, maintaining Labguru records allows the authorities/Professor to keep a tab on the progress of their students/staff.

The biggest con of this software is that it does not have a backup policy. You can physically store the pdf of the Labguru virtual notebook but what do you do for the data? The moment my lab or research group decides to quit Labguru, all the data will be lost. There are generations of work in Labguru that were saved by my other colleagues, all that would be gone. The second aspect of using Labguru or any similar platform is the heavy reliance on the internet. Labguru is certainly not solely to be blamed solely. If someone has a bad internet day then he/she will not be able to work on Labguru at all.

Labguru is a user-friendly ELN which allows efficient design and monitoring of the experiments. Great support of the LabGuru team.

A bit overwhelming at the beginning, quite some time needed to be able to use it efficiently. Once customised, the ELN and inventory are making the work much more efficient.

It allows to effectively organise your stocks, whether they are cells, reagents or rodent specimens. Allocate them to locations (rooms, racks, boxes) and consume reagents in the experiment records helps keep track of what needs ordering. The experiments can be created, organised, moved and even saved as protocol templates which allows flexibility, as it does the option to link resources. To import and export list of any stocks is very easy and fast using the excel templates. As a manager, is very easy to distribute roles and access to the different users.

Sometimes the local edit plugin function to edit a document embedded in an experiment doesn't work properly and requires manual editing, which is more time consuming. Overall it requires to spend time learning how to use it, but this is because it's very comprehensive and has many functions.

this software correspond to all our needs, the transfert from paper to electronic lab book is very rapide and easy

at the moment, there is no problem around the utilization of this software

As a young PI, organizing a new Lab with new students make all the process much easier. The ability to know online how every project is advancing is an advantage for a PI. The easy interface allows me to better control the Lab goals. the fact that the LabGure also backup all the data stored in another advantge.

I think that the LabGure should have the ability to be linked to Graphpad Prizm and other statistical softwaers. it will make all the data analysis much more easy and user friendly.

The ELN really helps to have a good overview of research that is conducted in an academic research lab. As professor and promoter of several PhD students and supervisor of tech staff for contract research, a good overview is crucial and Labguru offers this. Labguru makes the research also more efficient and standardized, the inventory of chemicals/biologicals is also coupled to experiments which make tracking much easier. It is for our laboratory the ideal tool to manage our research lab/ manage the inventory and supervise different research project in an efficient way.

I have no major remarks about the software, is very user friendly and self-explaining.

Thank you, Frederik! We highly appreciate you took the time to write a review about Labguru. We are happy to hear that Labguru helps you manage your research and become more efficient. we will be happy to hear more about how we can give you more value and understand your concerns in this matter.

- Intuitive to use - Ease of copy and paste anything - Folder type of structure - Inventory/Storage module - Project Management capabilities

- Not fine control over the rights to change Project folders - Not being able to impose the use of 2FA to users - Very frequent password change

Thanks Dino! We appreciate you took the time to write a review. We will definitely take your comments under consideration.

Labguru supports all R&D aspects, which makes it a great R&D tool for data arrangement & management.

Inserting data manually and understanding the different features. However, with great support we received from Labguru team support we were able to implement the module rather easily. Better tutorials of system features and how to use it are recommended.

Thanks Keren for the nice review. we appreciate your comments and will do our best to improve.

Easy access to all of our laboratory information and research results online.

The inventory search feature would benefit from a "search all fields" option, but it's an easy issue to work around.

Hi Brian, Thank you for taking the time to review Labguru ELN, LIMS and Informatics solution. I have forwarded your comment about the search capability to our product team. We always look for constructive comments that help us improve our service. All the best, Michal

Labguru is a use-friendly ELN which allows the use to effectively manage And review their data, plan their experimental work, store inventory and more. Labguru is also align with the regulatory compliance demands which makes it a very powerful tool.

Rarely there were some missing features but with the help and support of the Labguru team, I managed to overcome this and often these features were added following my request.

Hi Erez, Thank you for taking the time and writing your review. We appreciate your feedback and are happy we can grow our product thanks to partners like yourself. Your feedbacks are always helpful and constructive.