LaTeX
Typesetting language.
Contents
Docker Images
Engines
LaTeX formulas on the web
Editors
General purpose text editors
Free LaTeX plugin for Sublime Text. ![foss]
Instantly previews your LaTeX document. ![foss]
Modern vim plugin for editing LaTeX files. Has a variety of features including live preview and forward search. ![foss]
Free LaTeX plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. ![foss]
LaTeX extension for Visual Studio Code ![foss]
Devcontainer setup for easy LaTeX usage without local installation ![foss]
Online editors
Online editor, no-signup hybrid code editor + visual editor that mixes Notion/Google docs/Microsoft Word-like editing with raw LaTeX code blocks.
Command-line interface for Overleaf to sync, manage, and compile projects from the terminal. ![foss]
Self-hostable online editor with AI assistant integration, figure/table/citation management, real-time collaboration, and an MCP server (29 tools). ![foss]
Web-based vscode with Git Integration + Copilot + Grammar & Spell Checker + Live Collaboration Support based on GitHub Codespace and Dev container.
Bibliography tools
Extremely customizable, powerful and simple cross-platform (Python) library manager. It has a very complete Command-Line-Interface, several GUIs and scripting capability. ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]
Command-line utility for improving your BibTeX files. Fetches information from online sources. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]
Universal citation management and academic reference toolkit that converts messy references into perfectly formatted citations. Supports DOI, arXiv ID, titles, and more, with output in BibTeX, APA, and MLA formats. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]
Local CrossRef database (167M papers) with full-text search, impact factor data, Python API for bibliography enrichment, and an MCP server (15 tools). ![foss]
Local OpenAlex database (284M scholarly works) with abstracts and semantic search for literature discovery, and an MCP server. ![foss]
Build Tools
Misc. Tools
Quality Check Tools
Command-line tool that replaces commonly occurring LaTeX anti-patterns and cleans up your files. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]
A cross-platform (Java) spelling, grammar and style checker for LaTeX documents. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]
Tools centered around equations
LaTeX-compatible GUI tools
Packages
Collection of publication-ready PGF/TikZ figures by Petar Veličković.
Convert your MATLAB plots to PGFPlots/TikZ. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]
Convert your matplotlib plots to PGFPlots/TikZ. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]
Templates
A typographically elegant, clean, and structured LaTeX template (primarily intended for theses).
Links to various beamer themes along with PDF previews.
Visual overview of beamer themes included in TeXLive