Although PyMOL is built on an open-source platform, compiling PyMOL, integrating third party tools, and learning PyMOL can be difficult.  Incentive PyMOL is a packaged software product that makes it easy to become a PyMOL user.

• Automated Microsoft Installer for Windows
• Mac OS X "drag & drop"
• Access to e-mail and phone support by Schrödinger Technical Support
• Incentive documentation that comprehensively covers PyMOL features and updates
• Narrated screencasts and step-by-step tutorials
• FreeMOL, including the APBS (Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver) Plugin for PyMOL
• RigiMOL, a proprietary molecular morphing software product
• Open-source implementation of the MMFF94 (Merck Molecular Force Field)
• MPEG encoder for simplified moviemaking
• Clipboard support for copying and pasting of images in Windows and Mac
• A "one window" native user interface with a Tcl/Tk/X11 option (MacPyMOL)
• Direct export of QuickTime movies (Mac only)
• For Schrödinger Users: PyMOL for Maestro to easily export data to PyMOL
• Built-in MTZ Map Reading (and auto loading)
• Stereochemical labeling (R/S enantiomers)
• Improved atom typing (MOL2 and MacroModel)
• Improved real-time rendering quality
• Improved real-time rendering speed
• Improved 'undo' command
• Optimized anaglyph coloring
• New mouse modes for moving lights
• Ambient occlusion
• Surface color smoothing
• Improved feedback on the 'clean' command