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LaTeX Editor

Desktop LaTeX editor with live PDF preview, bidirectional SyncTeX, and one-key project snapshots.

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  • Windows  Ships the GUI only. Compiling requires TeX Live installed inside WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which the app calls out to. Distributed as a portable executable, no installer.
  • Linux
  • Mac
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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Autocompletion
  3.  No registration required
  4.  Syntax Highlighting
  5. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX
  6.  Dark Mode
  7.  Portable
  8.  Ad-free
  9. Git icon  Git Support
  10.  Works Offline
  11.  Spell Checking
  12.  Full-Text Search
  13.  Cross-Platform
  14.  Offline
  15.  PDF Preview

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What is LaTeX Editor?

LaTeX Editor is a free and open source desktop editor for LaTeX documents, built with PyQt6. It puts the source and a live PDF preview side by side: save, and the document recompiles and the preview refreshes on its own, scrolling to wherever your cursor was.

SyncTeX works in both directions. Ctrl+click a line in the source and the PDF jumps to it, even across pages; Ctrl+click in the PDF and you land back on the source line.

Ctrl+K takes a named snapshot of the entire project. It requires no git knowledge, but writes a standard .git repository using embedded dulwich, so the history stays readable by ordinary git tools. A Version History tab shows differences between snapshots and can restore a single file from an older one.

The engine is detected from the document: it honours a % !TEX program directive, and otherwise chooses lualatex for fontspec, xelatex for mathspec/xeCJK, and pdflatex for inputenc/fontenc. Compiler errors and warnings land in their own panels, and clicking one jumps to the line. Recurring errors also get a plain-language hint instead of the raw log text.

Other features: % !TEX root for multi-file projects, a table wizard that builds tabular blocks from typed cells or a CSV, document outline, folder-wide search, drag and drop images into figure blocks, PDF text search and selection, PDF bookmarks, dual page view, and 7 themes. The interface is available in English and Turkish.

The application ships the GUI only; a TeX distribution is installed separately (TeX Live via apt on Linux, mactex on macOS and via WSL on Windows).

Spell checking is built in and LaTeX aware: it skips the preamble, reads accent macros as the letter they produce, checks \section and \caption arguments as prose but not \label or \cite, and leaves URLs, DOIs and bibliography keys alone. Turkish and English dictionaries ship inside the application, so nothing is downloaded, and a document that mixes two languages can be checked against a second dictionary.

Licensed GPL-3.0. Available as a portable Windows executable and a Linux AppImage.