Android at the bench
Use a shared landscape tablet for camera scanning, HID barcode scanners, manual entry, and routine work beside the dewar.
Offline cryovial inventory software for research labs
Know where every vial is before the lid opens.
Track liquid-nitrogen cell storage on the Windows PC or Android tablet your lab already uses. CryoIndex records where every vial is stored, what happened to it, and who recorded the change.
A fictional lab in the real CryoIndex interface. No account, upload or camera access. Changes reset when the tab closes.
Free for Windows 10 and 11. Android tablet · in closed testing.Join the Android testGet launch updates
- Core inventory works offline
- No account required
- Your data stays with your lab
Exact location
CI-004271HUVEC · Passage P4 · Donor H-218
Dewar 1›Cane 2›Box 4
Position C3Built for the bench. Clear enough to use in gloves, precise enough to trust.
Use the real interface
Explore a complete fictional lab before installing anything.
The demo is a browser build of the same Flutter screens and database rules used by CryoIndex. Search seeded vials, open boxes, record changes and review the activity history.
- 100 fictional vials in a temporary sample inventory
- Core inventory workflows available for exploration
- One browser tab, one temporary lab; reload or reset to start again
Try CryoIndex with a sample LN2 lab
Best on a desktop or landscape tablet at least 700 pixels wide. Verified in Chrome; Firefox and Safari have not yet been formally tested.
From spreadsheet to working inventory
Bring the records the lab already has.
Start with a free CryoIndex-ready template or map the headings in an existing CSV. An optional Parent barcode column can preserve reviewed lineage. CryoIndex previews the proposed cell lines, people, storage layout, ignored columns, and skipped rows before the approved import is written.
A record that matches the physical storage system
Find the vial before warm room air and time are working against you.
Search before opening
Pick the cell line and passage, or type a barcode or donor code, while the dewar is still closed.
Follow one location
The dewar name, cane and box labels, and grid coordinate appear together exactly as your lab configured them.
Record what changed
Scan or tap the vial out and preserve the operator, time and reason in its history.
Everyday inventory work
Inventory that helps when the label, spreadsheet or storage system does not cooperate.
Every shortcut has a safe fallback, and every refusal explains what needs to change.
Store one vial or a whole batch
Record where the cells came from, then store one vial or scan a whole batch. Shared details are entered once, positions advance automatically, and manual entry remains available for an unreadable label.
Find an exact physical position
Pick a cell line and passage, or type a barcode, donor code or lab-named field. Then follow the dewar, cane, box and grid coordinate before opening the lid.
Trace lineage and every recorded change
Follow a vial to its ancestors, related vials and descendants. Moves, removals, nitrogen fills and corrections retain who recorded them and when.
Reconcile records with reality
Audit a box position by position, distinguish an ordinary removal from an unexplained absence, and keep unresolved findings visible until the lab closes them.
Bring the spreadsheet with you
Import CSV inventory under the headings your lab already uses. CryoIndex previews every row before writing and explains anything it cannot safely store.
Back up without surrendering the data
The database stays on the lab’s chosen device. Save a complete backup wherever the lab chooses and restore only after the file passes structural and inventory checks.
Offline by design
The lab’s inventory works without an internet connection or an account with us.
Local working database
The authoritative inventory remains on the Android tablet or Windows PC the lab chooses.
Local barcode input
Android camera frames are decoded and discarded on-device; HID scanner and manual input stay local on both platforms.
Lab-controlled backups
Your lab decides when a copy leaves the working device and where it is kept.
No CryoIndex cloud copy
CryoIndex does not operate a server inventory or synchronize separate installations.
One complete product
CryoIndex 1.0 is free for a complete one-dewar inventory.
CryoIndex
The complete shipping product for a single dewar.
- Store, find, move and remove vials
- Batch entry with barcodes, or with no barcodes at all
- Android camera scanning, hardware scanning on either platform, plus manual entry
- Box audits and complete activity history
- Parent-vial lineage with ancestors, related vials, and descendants
- CSV import; inventory and fill-log exports; full backups
- Optional Admin PIN for restores, storage-layout changes and other high-impact actions
- Up to 40 canes, 40 boxes per cane and 26×26 positions per box
Inventory, cell lineage, activity history, Admin PIN, exports, backup and restore are all included in CryoIndex.
Running several dewars, or producing documentation for review? Both are on the roadmap, and what they should do is still an open question.
CryoIndex for Windows is free on the Microsoft Store. Android is in closed testing on Google Play — if you have an Android tablet, joining the test is the thing that gets it published.
Hardware and troubleshooting
Practical help for barcode scanners, hidden keyboards, refused files and replacement devices.
The support library starts with the problems that have happened on real hardware, including the exact scanner settings used during testing.