LaTeX Alternatives

Apps similar to LaTeX include Quarkdown, which is free and open source. Other options are Typst, Markdown, MacTeX and SILE. You can choose from more than 10 Markup Languages like LaTeX for Linux, Mac, Windows, the web and self-hosting.

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    Pollen

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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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Text::Amuse

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    Markup language for AMuseWiki.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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    WordTsar

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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.

    92 WordTsar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • CA flagCanada
    WordTsar screenshot 1
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    Caoutchouc

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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 (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    Inkwell.net

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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

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    ExactTex

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    A gradually-typed superset of LaTeX. Every .tex file is already valid; each annotation you add buys checked references, safe renames, and errors in your own names — before the PDF exists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • ES flagSpain
    • European Union flagEU
    ExactTex screenshot 1
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