What changed on the site and in the product, newest first. Only what you can see for yourself.
Every overlay we produce now carries our name
The annotated frames in a report and in an export are the pictures people pass around, and until now nothing on them said where they came from. They carry a small CellCount mark on the scale bar, which is the one piece of chrome that cannot be cropped off without taking the calibration with it. Frames with no measured scale get the mark too. Images exported for annotation are untouched: a mark baked into a training image is a defect, not a signature.
A result now says when the capture it came from was out of spec
The operating envelope sets what an image has to be before we will count it, and a capture that missed it used to produce a result that looked like any other. The result and the report now say so plainly: which images, what is wrong with them, and what it costs the number. An image with no scale counts as outside, because without one nothing can place the capture inside the envelope. Nothing is blocked; the call is still yours.
Cells at the edge of a frame are no longer stuck under the controls
The image used to stop dead when its edge met the edge of the viewport, which meant a cell right at the border of a frame could only ever be drawn in the strip where the zoom buttons and the scale bar sit. Any point of the image can now be dragged to the middle of the screen, so nothing on the frame is permanently behind a control. The image still cannot be lost: the middle of the screen always stays over it.
The back button works the way a phone expects
On a phone, Back now closes whatever is open on top of the counting screen instead of leaving the page: one press per layer, the way every other app on the device behaves. Back out of the camera and you land on the sample view you opened it from, not on a blank frame. It refuses to leave while a photo is still being processed, so a sample can no longer end up quietly short of a frame.
Counting on a phone, rebuilt around the frame
On a phone the counting screen is now the image, edge to edge, with the controls gathered into one bar pinned along the bottom where a thumb reaches. The frame is wider by the borders that used to sit around it, one finger pans it and two pinch it, and a row of chips steps between the images in the sample without leaving the frame. Finishing the sample is on that bar too, and it lights up as soon as every image has been counted.
Five new pages answer the questions labs bring to a call: how to count cells with a hemocytometer by hand, how to count from a phone photo of the chamber, how to get a second reading of the images an automated counter exports, how to count yeast, and how PBMCs, clumps and messy samples are handled. The FAQ is now also in Norwegian.
Specifications, a glossary, and the front page in Norwegian
A specifications page states what goes in (formats, resolution, chamber and stain, the three ways in), what comes back, what the record holds and what leaves as documents. A glossary defines the terms around cell counting, each with its published source. The front page is now also in Norwegian.
A FAQ page answers the questions labs ask before they try CellCount, in short: how accurate it is, which samples and instruments it works with, what you need, how a count is checked, protocols, the record, exports, and how a lab gets started.
The company behind CellCount is now called Vitr; the legal entity stays Lowkey Vision AS, and nothing changes in the terms or the privacy notice. The company has its own site at vitrbio.com, with notes of its own.
The site lives at cellcount.ai
cellcount.ai is the address of the site and the app. lowkey-vision.com still redirects here, so bookmarks and links keep working. Email addresses stay on lowkey-vision.com.