SwiftLaTeX AlternativesLaTeX Editors and other similar apps like SwiftLaTeX
SwiftLaTeX is described as 'Web-browser based editor to create PDF documents such as reports, term projects, slide decks, in the typesetting system LaTeX. In contrast to other web-based editors SwiftLaTeX is true WYSIWYG, What-you-see-is-what-you-get: You edit directly in a representation' and is a LaTeX Editor in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SwiftLaTeX for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Haiku apps. The best SwiftLaTeX alternative is LyX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like SwiftLaTeX are TeXstudio, Overleaf, Texmaker and TeX Live.
- LaTeX Editor
- Free • Open Source
- 42 LyX alternatives
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG). LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a GUI.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Haiku
- Chrome OS
LyX Features
- 34 TeXstudio alternatives
TeXstudio is an integrated environment for writing LaTeX documents. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. Therefore TeXstudio has numerous features like syntax-highlighting, integrated viewer, reference checking and various assistants.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
Top TeXstudio Features
- 51 Overleaf alternatives
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.
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United Kingdom
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- 38 Texmaker alternatives
Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
France
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Haiku
Texmaker Features
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Haiku
TeX Live Features
- 10 MiKTeX alternatives
MiKTeX is a typesetting system for the Windows operating system. The distribution includes TeX, pdfTeX and XeTeX.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
MiKTeX Features
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
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.
Top TeXmacs Features
- 23 KLatexFormula alternatives
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Switzerland
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
KLatexFormula Features
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
TeXworks Features
- 27 TeXnicCenter alternatives
TeXnicCenter is a feature rich and easy-to-use integrated environment for creating LaTeX documents on the Windows platform. Its powerful editor and its tight integration with the LaTeX environment helps you to concentrate on what matters: The content of your document.
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TeXnicCenter Features
Fidus Writer is an online collaborative LaTeX editor especially made for academics who need to use citations and/or formulas. The editor focuses on the content rather than the layout, so that with the same text, you can later on publish it in multiple ways: On a website, as a...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Fidus Writer Features