PaperBanana Help Center

Learn how to generate, edit, manage, and pay for scientific visuals in PaperBanana

PaperBanana helps researchers turn text, images, papers, and rough ideas into publication-ready scientific visuals. This help center covers the main workflows, credit usage, billing, account settings, and troubleshooting.

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What you can do

  • Generate scientific mechanism diagrams from prompts, reference images, or research descriptions.
  • Create academic illustrations for papers, methods, pathways, and concept models.
  • Build scientific posters for conferences and lab presentations.
  • Edit generated SVG diagrams in Workspace Editor and export final files.
  • Manage credits, subscriptions, credit packs, invoices, and account settings.

Choose the right tool

If you need to...Use this guide
Explain a mechanism, pathway, workflow, or graphical abstractScientific Diagram Maker
Create a polished academic illustration from text or an imageAI Scientific Illustration
Turn research content into a conference or lab posterScientific Poster Maker
Fix labels, colors, layout, or exported SVG filesWorkspace Editor

Start here

If you are new to PaperBanana, start with Getting Started.

If you already know which tool you need, open the relevant guide:

For credits or payments, see Credits and Billing.

For failed generations, missing credits, or account issues, see Troubleshooting.