A virtual microscope for every student, with real slides.

An online virtual microscope for middle and high school science, built on real slides. Each StudyScope slide is a physical specimen, professionally prepared and stained. It is scanned once at gigapixel resolution, so a class can pan and zoom from the whole section down to individual cells, always in focus, on any device with a screen. Nothing is simulated: you're looking at real tissue, just without the hardware.

No. A microscope simulator teaches how to operate an instrument: the knobs, the focus, the objectives, usually with a handful of illustrated or sample specimens. StudyScope skips the instrument and gives you the specimen itself, a scan of a real prepared slide you can explore end to end. If your goal is teaching the parts of a microscope and how to focus one, a simulator or a bench scope is the right tool for that part.

A digital microscope is still hardware: a physical scope with a camera, so a screen replaces the eyepiece but the instrument, the slide drawer, and the single point of view remain. StudyScope removes the instrument entirely. The specimen is scanned once at full resolution and served in the browser, so there is nothing to buy, maintain, or focus, and the whole class explores the same slide at once from any screen.

No. That's deliberate. Students join a live session with a room code, or open a shared link, from any browser. There is nothing to install, no passwords to reset mid-period, and no student personal information is collected, ever. Read the privacy policy →

Yes. It runs in any reasonably modern browser: Chromebooks, iPads, phones, and the desktops already in your lab, with no USB microscope, camera, or install. The viewer is tuned to stay smooth on school networks and modest hardware, because that is what classrooms actually run.

Yes. Every slide is calibrated from its scan resolution, so the ruler reads real micrometers and millimeters at any zoom and the viewer shows the equivalent magnification. Students measure a cell directly instead of estimating it from the field of view.

Both. The catalog follows the life science sequence most schools teach: cells and mitosis, protists and bacteria, plant anatomy, invertebrates, blood smears, and human tissue. The same slides hold up for intro college courses.

For lessons where the point is to see, identify, and measure structures, yes. It does the job with better specimens and less lost time than most school scope sets. If your curriculum also assesses hands-on microscopy technique, teachers may choose to use both: StudyScope for the seeing, a bench scope for the skill.

Professionally prepared specimens across the standard science curriculum, each scanned at full resolution and cataloged with its stain, magnification, and searchable tags. The catalog keeps growing, and you can look through all of it before you sign up. Browse the catalog →

You present from your machine; students join in seconds with a room code. They see the slide and lesson step you are on, watch annotations appear as you draw them, and one tap jumps the whole room to your exact view. Late joiners catch up on everything already drawn.

Yes. Share a slide link and students open it at home in any browser, no account needed. An absent student can open the same slide the class studied and explore it at their own pace.

StudyScope costs $99 per teacher per year, one plan with everything included. No tiers, no features held back. The students you teach are always free. Schools and districts buy seats for their staff together at the same price per seat, and purchase orders and quotes are welcome. See pricing →

Yes, in part: the whole catalog and every slide preview are free to browse with no account, and a few slides open in the full deep-zoom viewer with no sign-up at all. Deep zoom on the rest of the catalog, measuring, lessons, and live presenting need a teacher seat, and students are always free. Open the free slides →