Free Overleaf AlternativesLaTeX Editors and other similar apps like Overleaf
The best free alternative to Overleaf is LyX, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Overleaf and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Overleaf are TeXstudio, Texmaker, TeX Live and Curvenote.
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- 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
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- Haiku
LyX Features
Comments about LyX as an Alternative to Overleaf
Most Recent CommentThis is not a collaborative online tool like overleaf.
Not online so many people can work together on a project
- 33 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
Comments about TeXstudio as an Alternative to Overleaf
Not an online collaborative editor
Not collaborative online tool
- 37 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
Comments about Texmaker as an Alternative to Overleaf
Not an online collaborative editor
- 22 TeX Live alternatives
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
- 16 Curvenote alternatives
Curvenote is a collaborative writing tool designed for open-science and reproducibility. Create & edit technical content in real-time, including equations, references, figures, and interactive plots from Jupyter, then export to any journal template.
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Curvenote Features
- 28 Kile alternatives
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
- Flathub
- 32 TeXmacs alternatives
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
- 24 MonsterWriter alternatives
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.
MonsterWriter Features
- 5 CoCalc alternatives
Web-based cloud computing (SaaS) and course management platform for computational mathematics.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Online
CoCalc Features
Comments about CoCalc as an Alternative to Overleaf
harmonia2sideOverleaf is an Online LaTex editor and CoCalc is a course management platform. They are completely different things
- 19 Archimedes alternatives
Archimedes is a LaTeX and Markdown editor designed to make mathematical writing easy.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Mac
- iPad
Archimedes Features
Combine lyx with git to enable collaboration.