Free MathType AlternativesTop LaTeX Editors and other similar apps like MathType

The best free alternative to MathType is Oleafly, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MathType and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to MathType are Overleaf, LibreOffice - Math, fxSolver and KLatexFormula.

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  1. Oleafly icon
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    Local-first desktop app for scientific writing in LaTeX, Typst, and Markdown supporting side-by-side editing and PDF preview, offline AI-assisted workflows, versioning via Git, citations, compiling, GitHub sync, and fully open-source, cross-platform performance.

    56 Oleafly alternatives

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  2. Overleaf icon
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    Overleaf, formerly WriteLaTeX, is a collaborative writing and publishing system that makes the whole process of producing academic papers much quicker for both authors and publishers.

    71 Overleaf alternatives

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  3. Math is LibreOffice's formula editor, and can be invoked in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, enabling you to insert perfectly formatted mathematical and scientific formulas.

    20 LibreOffice - Math alternatives

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  4. fxSolver icon
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    Online math solver, equation editor and database, graphing calculator and science/engineering problem helper.

    159 fxSolver alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  5. KLatexFormula icon
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    Allows creation of images from LaTeX equations with a graphical interface and command-line support, providing drag-and-drop, copy-paste, and save options in various formats for insertion into external documents, presentations, or graphics, available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

    27 KLatexFormula alternatives

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    • Open Source

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    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  6. 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.

    60 TeXlyre alternatives

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  7. Cassiopeia icon
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    Scientific Wordprocessing Software for MacOS X, MathML based equation editor, LaTeX export

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    • Mac
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  8. Mathcha icon
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    We want to help people to quickly write any mathematics formula/equation. People don't need to know about LATEX, but still have a powerful and rich Mathematics symbols/layouts/features so they can share with others.

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
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  9. VisualMathEditor is a LaTeX, AsciiMath and MathML editor developed in Javascript and HTML. It operates independently on the web or locally. It has many features and menus that help the equation-entry and allow their posting and backup.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  10. TexMaths icon
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    TexMaths is an addon designed to provide LaTeX support into LibreOffice. LaTeX equations can be inserted as images (SVG or PNG formats) and the LaTeX code is saved into the image attribute for further editing.

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    • Open Source

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    • LibreOffice
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  11. MathCast icon
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    MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen, to picture files, or to MathML - today’s leading...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  12. WordMat icon
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    WordMat is an add-on to Microsoft Word which creates a tab with math functionality. Part of the Math functionality is provided by other open-source applications like Maxima, GeoGebra, Graph and GnuPlot.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Word
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