1st place
Gründungspreis Rheingau-Taunus 2024
Best start-up from the Rheingau-Taunus district, chosen by jury and audience at EBS University in Oestrich-Winkel.
Award ceremony on 20 November 2024. Photo: Daniela Diefenbacht / Rheingauer Volksbank.
For everyone in the lab
Lab life,
simplified.
Lab.hacks is a community and a set of tools for students and scientists at the bench. Lab hacks on Instagram, an app for your phone and calculators in your browser, all from one small team.
Made in Taunusstein, Germany, the hometown of Emil Erlenmeyer, who gave the lab its most famous flask.
20,000scientists every month
156countries
88%keep coming back
63k+on Instagram
As of November 2026. App users from Google Analytics, followers from Instagram.
Recognition
Small team, big support.
Start-up scholarship
Selected for push! 2024
The start-up scholarship of the State of Hesse supported our project to make lab work simpler with digital tools.
What we make
Three ways to save lab time.
Join 63k+ lab people on Instagram
Lab hacks, memes and the honest side of research. Every week.
Your bench,
upgraded.
Free for Android and iOS. No account, works offline.