MathType Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to MathType for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is LibreOffice - Math, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MathType and 11 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to MathType are KLatexFormula, TexMaths, Mathematical LaTeX Helper and Math Minion.

MathType alternatives are mainly LaTeX Editors but may also be Calculators or Digital Painting Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of MathType.

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MathType

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LaTeX Editor

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LibreOffice - Math
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Free • Open Source
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PortableApps.com
19 alternatives to LibreOffice - Math
Math is the LibreOffice suite's formula editor, that can be invoked in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, to enable you to insert perfectly-formatted mathematical and scientific formulas.
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LibreOffice - Math Features
1. PortableLibreOffice - Math can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Equation editor
LibreOffice - Math vs MathType opinions
Most users think LibreOffice - Math is a great alternative to MathType.
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This is a very easy alternative to MathType.
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KLatexFormula
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Free • Open Source
LaTeX Editor
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23 alternatives to KLatexFormula
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.
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KLatexFormula Features
1. Support for LaTeXKLatexFormula supports LaTeX for text and math equation formatting.
Multiplatform Export
LaTeX Equations
Equation editor
KLatexFormula vs MathType opinions
Some users think KLatexFormula is a great alternative to MathType, some don't.
TexMaths
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Free • Open Source
LaTeX Editor
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LibreOffice
35 alternatives to TexMaths
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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TexMaths Features
1. Support for LaTeXTexMaths supports LaTeX for text and math equation formatting.
Prebuilt symbols
LibreOffice Integration
Tex
Mathematical LaTeX Helper
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
7 alternatives to Mathematical LaTeX Helper
This tool provides a very simplistic gui that renders LaTeX-expressions directly while typing and is able to copy the rendered images to the clipboard or alternatively save them to the desktop while maintaining transparency information.
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1. Support for LaTeXMathematical LaTeX Helper supports LaTeX for text and math equation formatting.
LaTeX Math
Equation editor
Math Minion
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
iPhone
iPad
16 alternatives to Math Minion
Math Minion started out as a powerful scientific calculator and modelling system with a deep understanding of conversion units, but over time it has evolved into much more. When string handling was introduced to its powerful array handling, it became an adept string processor.

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Apache OpenOffice Math
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Free • Open Source
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24 alternatives to Apache OpenOffice Math
Math, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a tool for creating and editing mathematical equations, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor (included in Microsoft Office). The created equations can then be embedded inside other OpenOffice.
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Equation editor
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Has minimal and generally useless mathematical formulae and/or symbols.
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JMathEdit
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Paid • Proprietary
LaTeX Editor
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Linux
12 alternatives to JMathEdit
JMathEdit is an equation editor that helps editing complex mathematical expressions with ease. Through the powerful GUI driven interface, very complex mathematical equations, chemical formulas and other scientific and educational equations, which are hard to compose otherwise...
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JMathEdit Features
Export to SVG
Equation editor
Support for MathML
JMathEdit vs MathType opinions
Most users think JMathEdit is a great alternative to MathType.
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it is a very bad interface not user friendly at all
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A good free alternative for ubuntu... easy to use, much better than LibreOffice equation editor
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Mathcha
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Freemium • Proprietary
LaTeX Editor
Digital Painting Tool
Mac
Windows
Online
6 alternatives to Mathcha
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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Mathcha Features
1. WYSIWYG SupportMathcha integrates a WYSIWYG editor to edit the look and content of a document, page, or file.
2. Support for LaTeXMathcha supports LaTeX for text and math equation formatting.
LaTeXiT
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
18 alternatives to LaTeXiT
LaTeXiT is a small utility that allows you to quickly typeset LaTeX equations, without bothering with file creation, preambles, and so on. The PDF image obtained can then be exported by dragn drop to any application supporting it.
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LaTeXiT Features
1. Support for LaTeXLaTeXiT supports LaTeX for text and math equation formatting.
Tex
Equation editor
Cassiopeia
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Freemium • Proprietary
LaTeX Editor
Word Processor
Mac
18 alternatives to Cassiopeia
Scientific Wordprocessing Software for MacOS X, MathML based equation editor, LaTeX export
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Cassiopeia Features
1. Support for LaTeXCassiopeia supports LaTeX for text and math equation formatting.
Support for MathML
Equation editor