iNMR news #108
GB, author of iNMR
Dear iNMR user,
You know the situation better than I do: you've found the tool that works, but explaining why to a purchasing department that doesn't speak NMR is another matter entirely. "It's cheaper" only goes so far. "It's better" is hard to prove to someone who can't tell a contour plot from a stacked plot.
Now, with a simple one-minute video, I've come up with a test that's easy for anyone to repeat. Run it against any competing program, and the comparison won't be flattering to the other side.
I could have run that comparison myself, against every competitor, one by one. I chose not to. For a real comparison to be credible, it should come from a neutral third party — not from me. And more personally: I've always believed in maintaining good relations with colleagues, even when we compete for the same customers. Turning this into a direct attack on named competitors isn't who I want to be.
So here's what I'm asking instead — and it's genuinely up to you which one you do:
If repeating the test on your own computer sounds like fun, go ahead. Do it, post it, share the result. That's more than enough.
If that sounds like more effort than you have time for, there's an easier option: just share the video itself, as widely as you can. Send it to colleagues, post it in forums, pass it along to labs that haven't made the switch yet.
Either way, the more this circulates, the sooner it becomes something the whole NMR community has already seen and already knows — and the next time someone has to justify choosing iNMR, the case will already be made.
Full press release below.
MOLFETTA, ITALY — July 13, 2026
iNMR 7.2 Renders in Under a Second What Freezes Every Other NMR Program
iNMR 7.2 eliminates the one bottleneck every 2D NMR spectroscopist has learned to live with — and dares the competition to race it, live, on YouTube
There's a moment every NMR spectroscopist recognizes: you click to redraw a 2D contour plot, and you wait. Not long, maybe a few seconds — but you do it dozens of times a day, every day, for as long as you've been in the lab. Today, that moment disappears.
iNMR 7.2, released for both macOS and Windows, has quietly solved a problem the rest of the field simply accepted as the cost of doing business.
The bottleneck nobody questioned
Viewing 2D matrices on screen is, by far, the single most frequent action in 2D NMR spectroscopy. Every visual inspection of a spectrum depends on it. Software has traditionally offered a trade-off: a fast mode — the color map, a simple bitmap — and two slow modes, the contour plot and the stacked plot, prized for the detail they reveal but notorious for making users wait, especially on large or densely-leveled datasets.
iNMR 7.2 erases that trade-off entirely. Contour plots and stacked plots now render at the same speed as a bitmap. Not "faster." Not "improved." The distinction between fast and slow modes simply no longer exists.
The numbers that shouldn't be possible
Push iNMR 7.2 to its limits and it doesn't blink. An 8K x 8K point matrix, rendered as a contour plot with 200 levels — the kind of request that can lock up other programs for a long, uncomfortable pause — appears in a fraction of a second. On a five-year-old, entirely unremarkable computer.
No high-end workstation. No waiting. No spinning cursor.
Don't take our word for it
Here's the part that should make competitors nervous: iNMR is free to download at www.inmr.net, so this isn't a claim anyone has to trust — it's a claim anyone can test in the next five minutes.
A one-minute demonstration is available (https://youtu.be/C405Hb_HIRk) on iNMR's YouTube channel, showing exactly how to run the comparison yourself. The instructions are almost insultingly simple: open iNMR alongside any other NMR processing package, put them side by side, run the same rendering task on both, and watch what happens.
A new baseline for the entire field
With 7.2, iNMR isn't just adding a feature — it's resetting the standard the rest of the field will now be measured against. The gap it opens between itself and every other 2D NMR visualization tool on the market is not a small one, and it will not be easy to close.
Choosing the best software just got a lot easier. It takes one minute to find out.