LyX Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to LyX for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Texmaker, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to LyX and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to LyX are Kile, TeX Live, TeXmacs and TeXworks.

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  1. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
     
  3. TeX Live icon
     44 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  4. TeXmacs icon
     19 likes

    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. TeXworks icon
     19 likes

    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.

    34 TeXworks alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Arch Linux
    • Debian
    • Fedora
    • openSUSE
    • Ubuntu
     
  6. KLatexFormula icon
     18 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. Bakoma Tex icon
     3 likes

    BaKoMa TeX system for Scientific Publishing. One of its main features is instant preview: The document is typeset as you write, providing true WYSIWYG experience not usually found in LaTeX editors.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. LaTeXing icon
     2 likes

    LaTeXing is plugin for the popular and fast text editor Sublime Text . The plugin supports many features to write your LaTeX files without leaving the text editor or using the mouse.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Sublime Text
     
  9. VimTeX icon
     5 likes

    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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Neovim
    • Vim
     
  10. Texpad icon
     12 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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  11. MonsterWriter icon
     2 likes

    A simple solution to write scientific papers, pillar content or just your personal notes. It aims to combine the benefits of traditional Microsoft Word, LaTeX and Markdown.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. Scriptable, macros, multipart selection, styles. Multilingual. Text expanding feature. Document Manager. Use any number of keys to execute menu command, e.g. press Command key, then FAU for "Find all uppercase words." Extremely customizable.

    60 Nisus Writer Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
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