Stop Managing Your Lab in Spreadsheets

Eliminate chaotic spreadsheets and expired reagents. LabSpy gives your team full control over inventory, equipment, and purchasing in one platform.

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Inventory List Interface
Item Details Interface
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Location Search Interface
Problem: "Where is the Ethanol?"

Stop losing reagents in the back of the fridge.

Excel sheets don't tell you which shelf a bottle is on. LabSpy does. Search your entire lab inventory in seconds and locate items down to the specific box.

Precise Location Tracking

Room > Fridge > Shelf > Box.

Problem: "We used expired buffer."

Never ruin an experiment with bad reagents.

LabSpy tracks batch numbers and expiration dates automatically, emailing you before critical items go bad.

Automatic Alerts

Get notified 30 days before expiry.

Expiry Alerts Interface
Purchases Interface
Problem: "Did you order the tips?"

One purchase list for the whole lab.

Students request items, PIs approve them in one click. Consolidate your ordering process and eliminate duplicate purchases forever.

Why choose LabSpy?

Excel spreadsheets are fragile and slow. Enterprise LIMS are overkill and expensive. LabSpy is built for labs that need something simple, affordable, and actually useful from day one.

Find anything in seconds

Search your entire inventory and see exactly where items are stored: Room, Fridge, Shelf, Box. No more hunting through the back of freezers or asking colleagues where they put things.

Never use expired reagents

LabSpy tracks expiry dates for every batch and alerts you 30 days before they expire. No more experiments ruined by bad reagents; the system warns you before it's too late.

Stop duplicate orders

One shared purchase list for the whole lab. Admins see what's been requested, ordered, and arrived. No more buying the same reagents twice because nobody knew someone already ordered them.

Monitor what's happening in real time

View your lab's activity feed: who withdrew what, when purchases arrived, who added inventory. Nothing gets lost or forgotten.

Control who sees what

Set member roles to control who can view inventory, submit purchases, and manage equipment. PhD students can search items and book equipment, while PIs approve orders and manage access.

Track every withdrawal

See exactly who withdrew what, when, and from which batch. When an experiment fails, you can trace back to the reagent lot used and investigate if it was the problem.

Export anytime

Download your entire inventory to CSV with one click. Your data is yours: if you leave LabSpy, you leave with everything. No vendor lock-in, no surprises.

Pay once for everyone

€49/month for 50 people or 5 people: the price never changes. No surprise costs when you hire a postdoc or a summer student. Transparent pricing, no per-user fees.

Your data belongs to you.

Built with privacy and compliance in mind.

Secure & Encrypted

We use industry-standard encryption to ensure your research data never leaks.

Automatic Backups

Accidentally deleted a category? We back up your lab's database periodically

No Lock-In

Export your entire inventory to Excel/CSV with one click, any time you want.

See LabSpy in Action

Watch how easy it is to manage your lab inventory in just 30 seconds.

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Setup in minutes

One price for your whole lab.
No per-user fees.

A 5-person lab pays the same as a 50-person lab on Pro. Because your software cost shouldn't go up every time you hire a summer student.

Pro

Small to medium academic and biotech labs.

€49 / month

Free 2-week trial — no card required

  • Up to 50 members
  • Unlimited inventory items
  • CSV export
  • Email alerts (expiry, low stock)
  • 5GB document storage
  • Priority email support (24h)
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Lab Suite

Larger groups, core facilities, multi-team departments.

€89 / month
  • Unlimited members
  • Up to 5 lab workspaces
  • 20GB document storage
  • Dedicated onboarding call
  • Priority support (12h reply)
  • Custom invoicing
Choose Lab Suite

Pay annually and get 2 months free: Pro at €490/yr, Lab Suite at €890/yr.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about LabSpy

LabSpy is built for small research labs of 5 to 50 people in universities, biotech startups, and hospital research units. If your lab currently manages inventory in Excel and you've outgrown it but can't justify enterprise LIMS pricing, LabSpy was built for you.

Search your full inventory in seconds, see exactly where something is stored, and get alerts before reagents expire — all in one place. Purchase requests, equipment bookings, and documents live in the same system, so you spend less time chasing colleagues and more time in the lab.

A spreadsheet doesn't alert you when something is about to expire, doesn't prevent double-booking equipment, and breaks the moment two people edit it simultaneously. LabSpy does all of that in real time for your whole team.

Enterprise LIMS platforms take months to implement, require IT departments, and cost thousands per user per year. LabSpy takes 15 minutes to set up, requires no IT support, and costs €49/month for your entire lab.

No. LabSpy is a web application — open a browser, sign up, and you're running. No software to install, no server to configure, no IT ticket to file.

Most labs are fully set up within an hour, including locations, inventory, and team members. If you're migrating from a spreadsheet, you can have everything transferred in a single session.

Everyone on the team uses LabSpy. Students can search inventory, submit purchase requests, and book equipment, while PIs and lab managers approve requests and review activity logs.

Every expired reagent that ruins an experiment and every duplicate purchase order has a real cost that doesn't show up in any budget line. LabSpy pays for itself the first time it prevents a failed experiment or a duplicate antibody order.

Any item in your inventory can be made bookable — microscopes, centrifuges, PCR machines. The system prevents double-booking automatically, so no more sticky notes on the instrument door.

There's no free-forever tier, but Pro starts with a 14-day free trial and no credit card required — you get full access before paying anything. Lab Suite is pay-upfront with no trial.

All connections are encrypted, your lab's data is completely isolated from other labs on the platform, and you can export everything to CSV at any time. We don't sell your data or run ads.

Yes. We collect only what's needed to run the service, you can request full data deletion at any time, and a Data Processing Agreement is available on request for institutions that require one.