It’s a microscope.
The world’s most compact cell microscope.
Benefits
Long-term stable monitoring
Focus drifts? Struggling to find the same imaging position again? Not anymore. Thanks to the Cellwatcher precision container locking… , you don’t ever lose your field of viewafter changing the medium or adding a compound. The lensfree optic ensures stable monitoring even if your cells are in different heights, up to a few millimeters, e.g. in gel. Cellwatcher simply keeps your cells monitored continuously, in their ideal environment in your incubator.
Non-invasive & label-free
The Cellwatcher and PHIOme keep your cells safe and in the best physiological environment. They will operate without any need… of labels or excitation. All components of our microscope are engineered and tested in order to guarantee non-invasive cell behavior. No more worrying about phototoxicity, influences of labels and enviromental impacts.
Extremely large field of view
High statistics paired with high resolution in space and time gives you new insights in cell behavior. The Cellwatchers track tens of thousands… of cells per channel, dozens of spheroids with a fields of view of up to 20 mm², while still resolving single cells and their morphology.
Ultra compact & stackable
Your space in the lab is precious – both outside and inside the incubator! The ultra-compact Cellwatcher optimises your space usage with securely… magnetically stackable microscopes.
Live cell monitoring inside the incubator. Easy.
Our all-in-one package includes everything you need. Ideally matched hardware components to deliver the best possible performance as well as software connection to PHIOme. PHIOme offers easy and intuitive navigation, high performance AI-based analysis, as well as access to datastorage and dashboard.
Save tons of time by letting the AI handle all the repetitive tasks like manual settings, data transfer and image and data analysis. Start the measurement with only a few taps and receive your results in real-time.
Customer Feeback
Prof. Alexander Dietrichl
LMU Munich, Experimental Pharmacotherapy
“Using the Cellwatcher in basic research to study the proliferation and migration of primary cells enables us to perform many additional experiments in parallel. We can rely on obtaining consistent… and reproducible results thanks to both the device’s robustness and the excellent, always friendly support from PHIO, including data transfer, analysis and visualization.”
Prof. Michael Jantsch
Med. Uni. Vienna, Cell and Developmental Biology
“We use the Cellwatcher for studying mouse cells from genetic variants in cytoskeletal components. In particular, we are studying cell proliferation, movement and cellular contraction. While before we could study single wells…, we can now directly compare three replicates of two genetic conditions. Therefore, using the Cellwatcher saves time and eliminates variations emerging from cell handling on different days, different passages of cells etc. Moreover, the built in analysis software, allows us to plot our data directly into publishable graphs. The support from PHIO has been very efficient. We even got special modules programmed that allows very fast imaging, to allow cell contraction studies. Whenever there were problems with the server communication, the PHIO team helped us to recover data. In essence, PHIO allows us to perform our experiments faster, and in a more reproducible fashion. Given that personel costs are the main expense in any research project, we can now use our work time most efficiently.”
Prof. Gundula Schulze-Tanzil
PMU Nürnberg, Anatomy and Cell Biology
“The Cellwatcher system allows us to conduct plug and play timelapse imaging in a regular incubator with automated calculation of cell proliferation or migration in six wound healing assays simultaneously…. It saves us a lot of time and is well suited for working with our primary cells in musculoskeletal research and there is a very helpful support by PHIO.”
Prof. Michael Schäfer
University of Mainz, Neuroscience
“We employ the Cellwatcher for various assays related to the inflammatory activation of microglia. This tool facilitates continuous monitoring of cell proliferation and motility, enabling us to observe dynamics… that might be overlooked in conventional experimental settings with fixed observation time points. The cloud-based data analysis and presentation are highly intuitive, allowing for immediate use in seminars or publications. In addition, the use of Cellwatcher and its associated analysis tools has now become a valued component of practical student courses. A key advantage is certainly the ability to utilize the same cells following the microscopic observation for gene and protein expression analyses, for example. This saves resources and allows for a correlation of this data with proliferation and motility dynamics. We are also highly satisfied with the support from PHIO. PHIO’s proactive approach to problem-solving demonstrates a strong commitment to customer satisfaction.”
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PHIO scientific is the partner of choice for cutting-edge, automatic cell monitoring solutions for research and industry applications. Our goal is to create innovative and easy to use tools for scientists to make life science more reproducible and accessible.
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© 2026 PHIO scientific GmbH
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PHIO scientific is the partner of choice for cutting-edge, automatic cell monitoring solutions for research and industry applications. Our goal is to create innovative and easy to use tools for scientists to make life science more reproducible and accessible.
Newsletter
© 2026 PHIO scientific GmbH