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Free Overleaf Alternatives
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, OpenAI Prism, Texmaker and Curvenote.
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VerbTeX is a free, collaborative LaTeX Editor. It allows you to create and manage LaTeX projects directly on your Android device and generate a PDF by using Verbosus (Online LaTeX and Octave Editor)
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SwiftLaTeX is a 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...
34 TeXmacs alternativesGNU 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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\BlueLaTeX provides a full-featured server that allows you to create, manage and collaboratively edit documents written in \LaTeX. A web client is also provided to use the features served by the server directly in your browser.
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- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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20 Scientific Workplace alternativesYou write text and mathematics in your document without having to know a programming language or exit to an equation editor. Evaluate, simplify, solve, and plot functions without the need to master a complex syntax.
Minimalistic online collaborative LaTeX editor with AI-assisted writing features and bibtex support, currently in beta testing.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Online
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6 TexSlide alternativesThe revolutionary solution for native LaTeX & PowerPoint integration is finally here !
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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56 TeXlyre alternativesA local-first real-time LaTeX and Typst collaboration platform with offline editing capabilities. Built with React, TypeScript, and Yjs for collaborative document editing.
29 MonsterWriter alternativesA 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.
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