PrimerPrep is designed to be simple to use. It makes assumptions about your language to give you results immediately, and allows you to configure a number of parameters to give you a more in-depth analysis. But there is some more powerful functionality for building primers which is only available in Primer Pro. (But be prepared… powerful functionality comes with a steep learning curve!) This advanced functionality includes:

• work with syllables
• filter by part of speech (from input lexicon)
• analyze linguistic features

We intend to add further functionality to PrimerPrep to provide all of the primer creation functionality that users require, so that Primer Pro can eventually be “retired”. If you have a feature request for PrimerPrep (something that you can do in Primer Pro but can’t in PrimerPrep), please contact us on the Support tab.