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The best Text Editor alternative to Overleaf is Authorea, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Overleaf and eight of them are Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text Editor alternatives to Overleaf are Kile, TeXpert, WinEdt and LaTeXing.

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  1. Authorea icon
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    Authorea is the online document editor for researchers that allows researchers to write, cite, host data, and publish research documents. Authorea is trusted worldwide by leading researchers writing and publishing content in every discipline, from astrophysics to zoology.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  2. Kile icon
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    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.

    37 Kile alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
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  3. TeXpert icon
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    As an integrated environment, TeXpert allows users to edit, compile (generate PDF output) and view the result within a single app. As a result, it provides the convenience and productivity because it eliminates the hassles of switching back and forth between different...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
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  4. WinEdt icon
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    WinEdt (shareware) is a powerful and versatile text editor for Windows with a strong predisposition towards the creation of LaTeX documents...

    26 WinEdt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. LaTeXing icon
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    LaTeXing is plugin for the popular and fast text editor Sublime Text . The plugin supports many features to write your LaTeX files without leaving the text editor or using the mouse.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Sublime Text
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  6. Deft icon
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    Deft is a desktop editor for Markdown notes and LaTeX documents. It comes bundled with a LaTeX engine, so you can write articles as easily as notes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. texspark icon
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    texspark is a native macOS LaTeX editor built on Apple's own text engine — not a cross-platform port or an Electron app. It brings together everything a LaTeX writer needs in one window: a fast custom build pipeline (xelatex, latexmk, BibTeX, and more, chainable with...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Desktop LaTeX editor with live PDF preview, bidirectional SyncTeX, and one-key project snapshots.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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