I once paid for Adobe, then fell for open-source Inkscape, but at heart I've always loved lightweight tools, ideally ones that run right in the browser; now that AI is here, we can hand-craft the manual parts of our workflows exactly the way we want.

A tiny SVG editor for scientific figures, in one HTML file. Touch up figures from ggplot2, Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator in your browser or in TBtools. As a single file it may also open in the built-in viewers of VS Code or RStudio (untested). Nothing is uploaded.

Live: https://www.svguest.online (also at https://jieqianghe.github.io/svguest/)

TBtools-II users can use svguest.plugin directly. Inside TBtools, SVG Chat can use TBtools' model for free, without an API key, or your own paid ChatGPT plan (Sign in with ChatGPT).

The name

“Another roof, another proof.” Paul Erdős (1913–1996) travelled with a suitcase, staying with fellow mathematicians and working on proofs together. svguest borrows that spirit, and its logo: a small guest with a briefcase that moves in for a while, as a tab in your browser or a plugin in TBtools, and works on your figures with you.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a6501747-b90a-4e66-8a97-4ff731155efa

Using others' graphics

Do not use or trace figures from BioRender, Figdraw, icon sites, papers or textbooks and publish them as your own; when you use others' graphics, follow their license, credit the source, and obtain permission where required.