🍰 FigPie: Assemble scientific figures as easy as pie

🚧🏗️ Under construction, check for updates.🏗️🚧

FigPie is a lightweight, drag-and-drop GUI tool for assembling scientific figures from images, PDFs, and plots without needing heavy,expensive or overkill software like Illustrator, Affinity, PowerPoint and such. It is designed based on my lived-experience for researchers who want fast, clean, publication-ready figures.

⬇️ Download FigPie for Windows

Latest version: v0.1.7

Download FigPieSetup.exe | Windows Installer

🚀 Why FigPie?

Many researchers and students generate plots in Python / R / MATLAB then struggle in Illustrator / PowerPoint. FigPie removes that second step. It’s built specifically for papers , theses, presentations and scientific posters.

✨ Features

🤖 Automatic and smart panel labelling

🤖 Smart stat symbol placement

🪚 Trim, Crop and Erase unwanted objects off the plots

🧩 Flexible layout (grid, manual, alignment tools)

🔲 Add shapes: rectangle, circle, line, arrow, highlight bars

🎯 Easy precise positioning & resizing

📏 Custom and auto-adjustable canvas size

✂️ Automatic and easy white/blank-space cropping and trimming of final product

💾 Save / load projects to work later

🖼️ Export to: PNG,TIFF,SVG and PDF

Example workflow

You can select the type of stat symbol and level of statistical significance and add them on the plot by two click

The eraser helps you remove unwanted parts of the plots or images

Generate and edit labels easily and if the order of plots/panels is changed, regenerate them automatically

Align and arrange the plots

🖥️ Installation

Option 1: Terminal commands for developers

    git clone https://github.com/Htbibalan/FigPie.git
    
    cd FigPie
    
    cd Src and install the env using:

    conda env create -f environment.yml

after env is created, run:

        conda activate FigPie

Run from /notebooks:

        python FigPie.py

Option 2: Windows installer (recommended)

Download FigPieSetup.exe

Download and run the installer. No Python installation is required.

Security settings might stop you from downloading, or if needed, right click on the setupfile and from Properties menu check " Unblock" box.

🪪 Author

Developed by Hamid Taghipourbibalan | UiT: The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

🛠️ To-Do/ Updates needed:

• Expand panel columns - we are too narrow at the moment - - need to check how it looks on smaller screens - adaptable window Add image replacement function

user feedback windows crashes after 9 plots loaded at the same time --- fix thread processing --- RAM utilization ⚠️

Add crop/copy object, trim image

• Mac/ Linux support-test improvements

• Better snapping / alignment guides (Auto V and H needs enhancement)

SVG export

• Shortcut key fix

• Shape insert enhancement / shape rotation fix

• add simple manual file

• Open new canvas option / fix the override problem

• add hint on keys when mouse hovers

fix Gap Y field mask

add smart stat symbol feature

warning/save before close

Auto plot placement fails, rewrite the function to handle smart placement based on import order

📚 Citation

If you use FigPie in your research, please cite:

Taghipourbibalan, H. (2026). FigPie (Version 0.1.7) [Computer software]. Zenodo.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23645349