SwiftLaTeX AlternativesLaTeX Editors and other similar apps like SwiftLaTeX

SwiftLaTeX is described as 'Web-browser based editor to create PDF documents such as reports, term projects, slide decks, in the typesetting system LaTeX. In contrast to other web-based editors SwiftLaTeX is true WYSIWYG, What-you-see-is-what-you-get: You edit directly in a representation' and is a LaTeX Editor in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SwiftLaTeX for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best SwiftLaTeX alternative is LyX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SwiftLaTeX are TeXstudio, Overleaf, Texmaker and KLatexFormula.

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  1. LyX icon
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    LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a GUI.

    46 LyX alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • Chrome OS
     
  2. TeXstudio icon
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    TeXstudio is an integrated environment for writing LaTeX documents. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. Therefore TeXstudio has numerous features like syntax-highlighting, integrated viewer, reference checking and various assistants.

    36 TeXstudio alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. Overleaf icon
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    Overleaf, formerly WriteLaTeX, is a collaborative writing and publishing system that makes the whole process of producing academic papers much quicker for both authors and publishers.

    55 Overleaf alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Texmaker icon
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    Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.

    41 Texmaker alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  5. KLatexFormula icon
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    KLatexFormula is an easy-to-use graphical application for generating images (that you can drag and drop, copy and paste or save to disk) from LaTeX equations. It is written in Qt4.

    25 KLatexFormula alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. Kile icon
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    Kile is a user-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor by KDE. Kile gives you the ability to use all the functionality of LaTeX in a graphical interface and has interactive preview mechanisms to readily see the results of editing.

    32 Kile alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
     
  7. TeX Live icon
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    TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows.

    23 TeX Live alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  8. MiKTeX icon
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    MiKTeX is a typesetting system for the Windows operating system. The distribution includes TeX, pdfTeX and XeTeX.

    11 MiKTeX alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. TeXmacs icon
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    GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific editing platform designed to create beautiful technical documents. It provides a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, math, graphics, slides, etc.

    34 TeXmacs alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10. TeXlyre icon
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    A local-first real-time LaTeX and Typst collaboration platform with offline editing capabilities. Built with React, TypeScript, and Yjs for collaborative document editing.

    52 TeXlyre alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. TeXworks icon
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    The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program (working environment) that will be available for all today’s major desktop operating systems—in particular, MS Windows (XP and Vista), typical GNU/Linux distros and other X11-based systems, and Mac OS X.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Arch Linux
    • Debian
    • Fedora
    • openSUSE
    • Ubuntu
     
  12. VimTeX icon
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    VimTeX is a Vim plugin that provides support for writing LaTeX documents. It is based on LaTeX-Box and it shares a similar goal: to provide a simple and lightweight LaTeX plugin. It has been rewritten from scratch to provide a more modern code base.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Neovim
    • Vim
     
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