01 / CAPTURE
Photograph the plate
Hold any plate over any surface. The app finds its edge automatically.
A Reshape Biotech app · Free
Stop counting
colonies by hand.
Point your phone at any plate. Colony Counter finds and counts every colony in about two seconds—powered by the same AI trusted in leading labs.
Your thumb clicker just filed for unemployment.
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See how it works Total count247
Coverage18.6%
98.7% confidence
247 colonies found
1,284,920 colonies counted/ free forever/ built for busy labs
A two-second workflow
Snap. Analyze. Done.
From plate to defensible result before you can find your clicker.
Analyzing colonies
02 / ANALYZE
The AI outlines every colony
It splits touching colonies and ignores bubbles, glare and debris.
Total count186
Coverage14.2%
03 / READ
Get the numbers
Count, coverage and growth area are saved with the photo on your device.
~2sper plate with Colony Counter, versus minutes of squinting and clicking by hand.
The AI inside
Lab-grade counting.
On a phone you already own.
Professional colony-analysis models, distilled into the simplest tool in your lab.
colonies used to train the AI—and it learns from more every day.
the same model family used in Reshape's professional analysis platform.
any phone, any plate. No rig, no lightbox, no calibration ritual.
The launch plate-off
Count the most plates.
Win the machine.
Every plate analyzed through 31 July 2026 adds to your university's total. Pick your institution, count as usual, and watch the public board move.
Grand prize
A Reshape imaging unit for your lab
High-throughput imaging and analysis, without the manual bottleneck.
Live leaderboardUpdates automatically
01Imperial College London2,184
02University of Oxford1,947
03University of Cambridge1,628
Your lab could be next. Every plate counts.
Beyond the app
The app is just the doorway.
When your team is ready to automate more than counting, Reshape turns full experiments into structured, comparable data.
24plates running
“We increased our throughput fivefold and improved the consistency of every readout.”
“Before, we relied on inaccurate visual assessments that took 1–2 weeks. That guesswork is gone.”
Trusted in labs at
Imperial College LondonUniversity of OxfordSyngentadsm-firmenichThermo Fisher
Put the clicker
down.
Download Colony Counter free, point it at your next plate, and never hand-count again.
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