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Open a study and you’ll see a horizontal tab bar below the workspace header. Each tab is a phase of the research lifecycle: from planning through publication. Your editable Draft lives here; once frozen (preregistered or published), the pinned version becomes the immutable citable snapshot participants see.
Your study at a glance — lifecycle progress, next actions, recruitment status, condition balance, and a changelog of recent edits. This is the first tab when you open a study. Use it to spot blockers and orient newcomers on where the study stands.
Researcher-authored documentation: abstract, hypotheses, methods, and custom sections. This is where you describe the study to readers. The overview freezes into your preregistration record, so amendments preserve the lineage of changes. See Overview editor.
The block editor — add, reorder, configure, and delete screens and measures. Every participant-facing element (stimuli, questions, scales, flow) is a block. See Block catalogue and Conditions.
Participant-facing theme and visual styling — preset pickers and granular primitives (colors, fonts, spacing) that only affect the participant experience, not your workspace. Changes freeze with your study version. See Design.
The participant experience in full-screen, device-framed mode — the real runtime in preview mode (ephemeral, no data counted). Live validation, branching, and condition assignment as a participant would see them. Use this before running to catch flow issues.
Peer review and comments — invite collaborators to leave feedback, suggestions, and annotations on your design. Manage permissions and respond to comments before finalizing.
Freeze your design to the Open Science Framework. This creates an immutable, timestamped snapshot: the registered plan. You can keep editing your draft afterwards; changes to the plan require filing an amendment. Preregistration is required to collect data. See Preregistration and OSF integration.
Recruitment and data collection. After preregistering (or publishing), this tab shows your shareable recruitment link, recruitment status (recruiting / paused / closed), participant target, and preview access. Share the link to collect responses. Integrates with Prolific for managed recruiting. See Running a study.
Live summary as responses come in — condition balance, completion counts per condition, question-by-question results (mean/n for numeric, option counts for categorical, n for open text), emotion analysis, and spatial responses. Export data as CSV. Version filtering available if you’ve published multiple frozen versions. See Results analysis and Export.
The readable, citable face of your finished study. Bound sections auto-fill from your data (Overview, Preregistration, Methods, Results); authored sections are yours to write and reorder. Publish a public study record for readers and citation. See Study record.
Replication lineage — upstream ancestors (the study you copied) and all descendants (studies replicated from yours). View side-by-side block diffs against the original or descendants. Helps you track the family tree of your work. See Replication.

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Draft vs. frozen

Everything you edit lives in the Draft — your working copy. The draft is never shared with participants until you freeze it (preregister or publish). Once frozen:
  • The frozen version becomes immutable and citable (gets a DOI if pushed to OSF).
  • You can keep editing the draft independently.
  • Amendments to preregistered plans require filing a formal amendment record.
  • Replications copy the frozen version, not your draft.

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Status pill

The top-right corner shows your study’s current recruitment status:
  • Draft — not yet frozen. You can edit everything; no participants can access it.
  • Preregistered — frozen to OSF (or locally if not connected). Recruitment is ready to open.
  • Published — finalized and public. Recruitment is closed; the study record is live.
  • Recruiting — active session collecting responses.
  • Paused — recruitment temporarily stopped; can resume.

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Common workflows

Building and testing: Use Build, Design, and Preview tabs together. Preview as you iterate to catch branching issues and flow problems before freezing. Before data collection: Finish your Overview, preregister in the Preregister tab, then open recruitment in the Run tab. During collection: Monitor Results as responses come in; check Dashboard for condition balance and progress. After finishing: Compose your Study Record and publish it for public citation and discovery.