Archimedes Alternatives

Apps similar to Archimedes include Clearly Markdown, which is free and open source. Other options are Oleafly, LyX, TeXstudio and Overleaf. LaTeX Editors like Archimedes are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. 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.

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  2. Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.

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    • Mac
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  3. 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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    • Flathub
    • Arch Linux
    • Debian
    • Fedora
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    • Ubuntu
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  4. 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.

    61 TeXlyre alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Texpad icon
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    Texpad is a LaTeX editor designed for straightforward navigation of projects of any size. When Texpad opens a document it scans through it, looking for LaTeX structure commands and any included files, then it presents you with an outline view with which you can swiftly navigate...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  6. VerbTeX is a free, collaborative LaTeX Editor. It allows you to create and manage LaTeX projects directly on your Android device and generate a PDF by using Verbosus (Online LaTeX and Octave Editor)

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  7. A modern macOS markdown editor - themeable, tabs, sidebar, GitHub flavored markdown, exporting, latex and more.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  8. MWeb icon
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    MWeb can handle professional-level markdown with support for markdown extensions. It provides publishing to various social networks and blogging formats, as well as various preview themes.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  9. Murfy icon
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    Murfy.ai is an AI based web-based collaborative LaTeX editor designed for researchers, students, developers, and academics, offering a smarter, faster, and more efficient alternative to Overleaf.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. Marcdown icon
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    Lightweight real time markdown viewer and editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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  11. TexitEasy icon
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    TexitEasy is a free, cross-platform and open-source latex editor. TexitEasy has all the features a modern editor can have.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. TeXShop icon
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    TeXShop is a TeX/Latex editor and previewer for Mac OS X, written in Cocoa.

    Since pdf is a native file format on OS X, TeXShop uses "pdftex" and "pdflatex" rather than "tex" and "latex" to typeset in its default configuration; these progr.

    10 TeXShop alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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