Folio Studio is a single workspace for the diagrams a paper or review actually needs. It runs in the browser, exports at print quality, and the core tools are free with no sign-up.
What you can build
- PRISMA flow diagrams — the identification-to-inclusion flow every systematic review needs, with the record counts filled in as you go.
- Forest plots — effect sizes and confidence intervals for a meta-analysis, with a summary diamond.
- Funnel plots — visualize publication bias across your included studies.
- CONSORT diagrams — participant flow for a randomized trial, from enrollment through analysis.
Building a figure
Open the tool for the figure you want and fill in the fields — study counts, effect sizes, group labels. The diagram updates live as you type, so you're always looking at the real thing rather than a preview. Everything is styled to read cleanly in a journal: sensible type, honest spacing, no decorative clutter.
Exporting
Every figure exports two ways:
- SVG — vector, infinitely scalable, the right choice for a manuscript or a poster. It stays sharp at any size and most journals accept it.
- PNG — a raster image at high resolution, for slides or a quick paste into a doc.
Because SVG is vector, you never hit the pixelation you'd get screenshotting a figure out of another tool.
Saving your work
Signed-in users on the right plan can save Studio projects and come back to edit them later, so a PRISMA diagram you built for a protocol is still there when the review is done and the numbers have changed. The free tools work without an account; saving is what an account adds.
Tips
- Export SVG for anything going into a manuscript. You can always rasterize later; you can't un-rasterize.
- Fill counts as you screen, not at the end. A PRISMA diagram built alongside your screening is accurate; one reconstructed from memory usually isn't.
- Match the figure to the claim. A funnel plot only means something with enough studies to see a shape — don't force one onto three papers.