OpenCFU is described as 'Completely open source lightweight application designed to enumerate clustered circular objects such as bacterial colonies. It can handle digital pictures as well as live stream from a video device/webcam' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are 2 alternatives to OpenCFU for Android, iPhone and iPad. The best OpenCFU alternative is Promega Colony Counter, which is free.
Is the tedium of squinting over agar plates counting bacterial colonies getting to you? Take the plates out of the lab! No, not literally. Snap a picture with your phone and you can make counting an out-of-lab experience.
CURRENTLY IN EARLY BETA SO EXPECT ISSUES The purpose of ColonyCount is to assists when counting bacterial colonies or performing measurements of bacterial growth on agar plates. This is done by overlaying a picture of a plate with a number of layers containing tag and measurement.
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