CZI, ND2, SVS, DICOM, and TIFF. Measure, annotate, share, and use AI Analysis in one desktop application for Windows and macOS.
Desktop + cloud. Cloud-powered AI Analysis, shared views, and account-linked slide notes are included too.
Local files & shared links Windows & macOS Up to 2 devices Desktop + cloud
Start with your file format, workflow, or current software. Each guide gives you a focused path to the details you need.
Evaluate SlideScope when you need one desktop app that opens mixed microscopy files and quantifies standard objects on your own machine. Keep the original tool when you need microscope control, programmable image processing, scripted analysis pipelines, or institutional image management.
SlideScope is a desktop microscopy and medical imaging viewer for Windows and macOS. It supports CZI, ND2, SVS, DICOM, and TIFF review workflows.
It is built for research labs, microscopy core facilities, educators, students, and pathology review teams that need practical file review, annotations, measurements, metadata, and export.
AI Analysis reads the visible frame and returns a formatted expert-style explanation with language selection, copy/share controls, and text zoom. It is for research, education, and review workflows.
SlideScope offers a 7-day full-access trial with PayPal or card approval. The paid plan is a monthly subscription at $14.99 USD. Use one subscription on up to 2 desktop devices—Windows, macOS, or one of each—at no extra cost. Cloud-powered AI Analysis, shared views, and account-linked slide notes are included too.
Yes, for histology and histopathology research, teaching, and review. Scanned sections open at full resolution, structures measure in calibrated micrometres using the pixel size recorded by the scanner, and annotations stay attached to the slide. Virtual microscopy courses use it because each student runs it locally.
Yes. SlideScope opens Aperio SVS, pyramidal TIFF and OME-TIFF, and Hamamatsu NDPI and VMS, 3DHISTECH MRXS, Leica SCN, and Ventana BIF through the OpenSlide backend. It reads the scanner image pyramid, so gigapixel slides open on an ordinary laptop with no image server. MRXS and VMS slides open from local storage only, because their pixels live in a companion folder, and a few vendor layouts such as multi-region SCN slides are declined with a clear message. It does not read Philips iSyntax or Olympus VSI.
Yes, for the quantification most laboratories actually need. Alongside viewing, calibrated measurement, metadata inspection, and annotation, Local Quantification segments nuclei, cells, or particles on your own computer and reports calibrated counts, density per square millimetre, morphology, per-channel mean intensity, and marker positivity, with CSV, GeoJSON, mask TIFF, and methods-summary exports and folder batch runs. What it does not do is scripted or custom pipelines, so ImageJ or Fiji, CellProfiler, and QuPath remain the right tools for bespoke analysis. Results are for research use and need visual quality control.
Yes. Open a second slide beside the first and both panes stay on the same part of the tissue at the same magnification, which is the usual way to read an H&E against its IHC restain. Scale is matched in micrometres rather than by zoom factor, so two scans digitised at different resolutions genuinely correspond instead of only appearing to. Panning or zooming either pane moves the other.
Yes. Measurements, notes, and saved regions export as GeoJSON, which QuPath, ASAP, and the Python tooling around them read directly. Coordinates are written at full slide resolution rather than at the zoom level you happened to be viewing, so regions land in the right place. CSV export is also available for measurement tables.
Yes. A shared view link carries the slide together with the position, zoom, and plane, so the person you send it to opens the same field of view instead of hunting across a gigapixel scan. Installed copies of SlideScope register a slidescope:// handler and open the link with one click; anyone without the app sees what the link points at on the website first. This is what makes remote review and teaching practical.