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Kile

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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • KDE Plasma
  • Flathub
5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Live Preview
  2.  LaTeX Editor
  3.  Tex
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Works Offline
  7. LaTeX icon  Support for LaTeX

 Tags

  • tex-editor

Kile News & Activities

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Recent activities

  • App icon
    murple added Kile as alternative to Murfy
    20 days ago
  • braky updated Kile
    about 1 month ago
  • App icon
    app9034 added Kile as alternative to Archimedes
    8 months ago
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Kile information

  • Developed by

    DE flagKDE
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    29 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Kile, and it has gotten 45 likes

Kile was added to AlternativeTo by aygul on Apr 14, 2009 and this page was last updated May 10, 2025.

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Top Positive Comment
shunjoss
May 13, 2020
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Latex made easy.

What is Kile?

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.

Features:

  • Compile, convert and view your document with one click
  • Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands
  • Templates and wizards make starting new documents very little work
  • Easy insertion of many standard tags and symbols and the option to define (an arbitrary number of) user defined tags
  • Inverse and forward search: click in the DVI viewer and jump to the corresponding LaTeX line in the editor, or jump from the editor to the corresponding page in the viewer
  • Finding chapter or sections is very easy, Kile constructs a list of all the chapter etc. in your document. You can use the list to jump to the corresponding section
  • Collect documents that belong together into a project
  • Easy insertion of citations and references when using projects
  • Flexible and smart build system to compile your LaTeX documents
  • QuickPreview: preview a selected part of your document
  • Easy access to various help sources
  • Advanced editing commands