LaTeX Alternatives

LaTeX is described as 'High-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation' and is a very popular Markup Language in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to LaTeX for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best LaTeX alternative is Quarkdown, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LaTeX are Markdown, Typst, MacTeX and R Markdown.

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    Pollen is a publishing system that helps authors create beautiful and functional web-based books. Pollen includes tools for writing, designing, programming, testing, and publishing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Markup language for AMuseWiki.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    WordTsar is a Wordstar 7.0D document mode clone. It loads Wordstar 4, Wordstar 7, RTF (partial), and DOCX (partial) files, and saves in Wordstar 7 and RTF format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Caoutchouc is a typesetting language, like LaTeX, used to format documents. It greatly simplifies document formatting by relying on Markdown and AsciiMath.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Inkwell’s mission is to empower writers—from solo authors to academic teams—to produce beautifully typeset, publication-ready books and documents with ease, speed, and professional polish, using an intuitive, browser-based platform.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Inkwell.net is the most popular commercial alternative to LaTeX.

    • Inkwell.net is Paid and ProprietaryLaTeX is Free and Open Source
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