Kherve Tools — applications made by a scientist, for scientists.

KherveBook

Available

A computational notebook — and the future home of every Kherve tool.

A Jupyter-inspired computational notebook as a native desktop app. One document mixes Python code cells run in a live kernel with inline matplotlib figures, rendered Markdown, and LaTeX equations. KherveBook is the hub of the family: over time every Kherve application will live inside it as one workspace.

KherveFitting

Available

Open-source XPS peak fitting, elegant and simple to use.

Peak fitting for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data. Multiple background subtraction methods, a full set of peak models, automated multi-peak fitting with constraints, depth profiling, and PCA — a freely available alternative to commercial XPS packages.

KherveDB

Available

The NIST XPS binding-energy database, preserved and searchable.

Periodic-table viewer with NIST / XPS binding-energy references for every element from H to U, Auger lines, and the sensitivity-factor libraries used for quantification. Click an element to see its photoelectron and Auger lines, or search by element, XPS line, formula, or compound name — a preserved archive of the NIST database and a companion to KherveFitting for looking up reference binding energies.

Noise characterisation and reduction for scientific data.

Measuring, modelling, and reducing noise in scientific data — cleaning up spectra and signals before analysis. These noise tools are already available inside KherveFitting (v1.9); KherveNoise will bring them out as a dedicated standalone app.

KhervePDF

Available

A PDF viewer and annotation editor with built-in Git history.

Tabbed PDF viewing with a full annotation toolbox — pen, highlight, text, arrows, shapes, sticky notes, signatures, redaction — plus page operations (merge, split, rotate, reorder), form filling, and text search. Every document gets its own Git repository with auto-commit and a history browser.

KherveTeX

Available

WYSIWYG document editing that produces beautiful LaTeX PDFs.

Write in a Word-style page view while KherveTeX generates clean LaTeX underneath — with live source and PDF preview tabs. Math, figures, tables, citations, cross-references and footnotes are first-class, .tex and .docx import are built in, and every save is versioned in Git.

KherveMol

Coming soon

Draw chemical compounds and crystal structures in 2D and 3D.

A native molecular builder and viewer: an interactive 3D ball-and-stick model alongside a flat 2D skeletal sketcher over one shared structure. Build molecules by hand respecting each element's valence, browse 300+ named compounds and crystal unit cells, and export SVG straight into KhervePaint — with no heavy chemistry dependencies required.

KherveSheet

Available

An Excel-inspired spreadsheet workbench for scientific data.

A spreadsheet that speaks science: familiar Excel-style formulas and layout combined with an embedded scientific plotting engine and curve fitting. Import and export .xlsx, fit your data, and produce publication-quality charts without leaving the sheet.

KhervePaint

Available

Draw anything scientific — by hand, from the library, or by AI.

Everything you expect from a graphics program — every drawing tool, raster and vector layers, grid and snapping, precise dimension lines, and editable-SVG files — and a great deal more. KhervePaint ships a vast library of ready-made objects covering most fields of science, and it draws molecules and crystal unit cells, even stacking unit cells into full superstructures. And its built-in AI assistant will draw for you from a plain-language prompt — ask for a bed, a piece of apparatus, or almost any molecule, and it appears as real, editable shapes on the canvas.

KherveSlide

Coming soon

A WYSIWYG slide designer that produces Beamer LaTeX.

Drag, resize, and stack text and picture boxes exactly where you want them on the slide; KherveSlide keeps the generated Beamer LaTeX and compiled PDF preview live as you edit. LaTeX-quality presentations without writing LaTeX.

Publication-quality scientific plotting.

A dedicated plotting application for publication-ready figures — the same plotting engine that powers KherveSheet's embedded charts, as a standalone tool for exploring and presenting your data.

KherveCAD

Available

Visual CAD with OpenSCAD as the engine.

An easy-to-use CAD GUI that writes OpenSCAD for you: draw 2D profiles, extrude and combine them with booleans while an object tree, live .scad code, and a shaded 3D preview stay in sync — edit any of the three and the others follow. Build parts once and place them as many times as you like, then snap them together by clicking two faces. It ships a parametric vacuum-hardware library (CF/KF flanges, valves, turbo pumps), chemistry glassware and furniture, a big Examples menu, an AI assistant that models from a plain-language prompt, and STL/SCAD import and export.

KhervePY

Available

A lightweight, GitHub-first Python IDE — built for vibe coding.

A small, fast desktop editor built with PyQt6 and QScintilla — intentionally lighter than PyCharm or VS Code, focused on reading and editing code with strong highlighting and a first-class Git/GitHub workflow. Stage, commit, push, clone, and fork without leaving the window; manage virtualenvs and pip packages; and run your file with captured output. A second, minimal interface strips away the panels for distraction-free vibe coding with an AI assistant.