MacTeX

Most common LaTeX distribution for macOS, basically TeXLive with some Mac-specific tools added. ![mac]

TeX Live

Most common LaTeX distribution for Unix-like operating systems, including GNU/Linux. Also works on Windows. ![linux] ![windows]

MikTeX

Most common LaTeX distribution for Windows, but also available for Mac, Linux or as Docker image. ![linux] ![windows] ![mac] ![foss]

reitzig/texlive-docker

minimal TeXLive system with package installation possibility

Island of TeX/texlive

debian-based full TeXLive system

dante-ev/docker-texlive

debian-based full TeXLive system with additions with pandoc, perl, and python pre-installed

pdfTeX

TeX compiler that produces PDF files immediately instead of DVI files (nowadays, this is the standard compiler for many users). ![foss]

XeTeX

TeX compiler that provides better unicode and font support than TeX/pdfTeX (i.e. you can use the fonts of your operating system instead of only TeX fonts). ![foss]

LuaTeX

(La)TeX compiler that supports Lua code for scripting and has improved unicode and font support than standard TeX/pdfTeX. ![foss]

tectonic

Modern, self contained (La)TeX compiler powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. ![foss]

Auto-LaTeX Equations with Google Docs

Render high-quality math equations directly in Google Docs.

MathJaX

JavaScript engine to render mathematical formulas on the web. The outcome looks really slick. ![foss]

mimeTeX

mimeTeX is a rather old tool to render LaTeX formulas to PNG figures for your web site, without actually needing a LaTeX installation on your server. ![foss]

mathTeX

mathTeX is the successor of mimeTeX: it produces nicer-looking images but it requires LaTeX to be installed on your server. ![foss]

KaTeX

KaTeX is a math rendering library made by Khan Academy focusing on fast load times. All output is processed as plain HTML instead of fixed images. ![foss]

Franklin.jl

Static site generator with KaTeX support, code evaluation, LaTeX-like commands and optional pre-rendering, in Julia. ![foss]

xhub

Browser extension that lets you use LaTeX in GitHub pages. ![foss]

List of popular LaTeX editors

Community-maintained list of popular LaTeX editors including a screenshot and a short description.

Kile

Great LaTeX editor originally from the Linux/KDE community. It runs fine on Windows and macOS as well. ![foss]

TeXMaker

Pretty good alternative to Kile.

TeXStudio

Cross-platform LaTeX editor that stems from TeXMaker.

WinEdt

The LaTeX editor many people swear by. Only for ![windows].

TeXnicCenter

Quite old but free and decent editor for LaTeX. ![windows]

LyX

Cross-platform WYSIWYM editor that uses LaTeX behind the scenes to render documents. ![foss]

TeXShop

No-nonsense editor for LaTeX documents which is included in MacTeX. ![mac]

TeXWorks

No-nonsense editor for LaTeX code, modeled after TeXShop, but this one is cross-platform. ![foss]

BakomaTex

Commercial LaTeX editor that allows to edit your document both using its source code and WYSIWYG.

Texifier

Commercial LaTeX editor for macOS and iOS, with excellent features (document overview, synchronised PDF display, autocompletion, sync across devices, etc.) that never get in the way of writing. ![mac]

Oleafly

Free, open-source desktop editor for LaTeX, Typst, and Markdown with live PDF preview, SyncTeX, bundled engines, and Git-native projects. ![foss]

IntelliJ

List of popular online LaTeX editors

Community-maintained list of popular online LaTeX editor including equation editors.

Authorea

Online editor with built-in git support and bibliography tools.

OpenAI Prism

Online editor with realtime collaboration features.

Modern LaTeX Editor

Online editor, no-signup hybrid code editor + visual editor that mixes Notion/Google docs/Microsoft Word-like editing with raw LaTeX code blocks.

Octree

Online editor with AI writing assistance.

Androma TeX Editor

Collaborative LaTeX editor integrated into a mathematics wiki, with issue tracking, pull requests, and WASM-based compilation.

Overleaf

Online editor, also with a WYSIWYM editor and git support. Also available as [Overleaf Community Edition](https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf) (self-hosted, AGPL licensed). ![foss]

SciTeX Cloud

Self-hostable online editor with AI assistant integration, figure/table/citation management, real-time collaboration, and an MCP server (29 tools). ![foss]

WebLaTeX

Web-based vscode with Git Integration + Copilot + Grammar & Spell Checker + Live Collaboration Support based on GitHub Codespace and Dev container.

Papeeria

Online editor with built-in git support.

JaxEdit

Online LaTeX editor with Live Preview and nice presentation mode.

Vexlio

Online diagram editor with built-in LaTeX equation support including live preview and easy exports.

TeXbrain

Free, open-source browser-based LaTeX editor with in-browser compilation, live PDF preview and Git integration. No account or install required. ![foss]

LetX

Online editor with real-time multi-author collaboration (CRDT), bidirectional SyncTeX, and 1000+ journal/thesis templates.

Sarmate.net

Online editor with 5 built-in WYSIWYG helpers (TikZ figures, probability trees, sign tables, color boxes, LaTeX tables) that auto-generate clean LaTeX code. Cloud compilation, real-time collaboration, free tier.

TexLab

Language server for LaTeX and BibTeX with completion, definitions, references, rename, formatting, and forward search. ![foss]

Badness

Language server, formatter, and linter for LaTeX built on a lossless, error-tolerant syntax tree in the style of rust-analyzer. ![foss]

JabRef

Very powerful cross-platform (Java) bibtex editor. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]

Papis

Extremely customizable,

Bibdesk

Great bibliography editor for ![mac].

Zotero

Reference manager for your browser that also exports to bibtex and integrates with many LaTeX editors. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]

Mendeley

Both an app and cloud client to manage your references and PDFs. Can sync out to a bibtex file for your LaTeX workflow. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux]

betterbib

Command-line utility for improving your BibTeX files. Fetches information from online sources. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]

OneCite

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]

CrossRef Local

Local CrossRef database (167M papers) with full-text search, impact factor data, Python API for bibliography enrichment, and an MCP server (15 tools). ![foss]

OpenAlex Local

Local OpenAlex database (284M scholarly works) with abstracts and semantic search for literature discovery, and an MCP server. ![foss]

latexmk

Build tool that is the commonly used by many LaTeX editors (LaTeXing, TeXShop, etc.) to build your LaTeX files. ![foss]

xu-cheng/latex-action

GitHub Action to compile LaTeX documents

dante-ev/latex-action

DANTE e.V.'s GitHub action to compile LaTeX documents. Offers a full TeXLive and pre-installed perl and python.

CaTeX

Concatenates LaTeX documents with attention for properly merging the preamble.

Pandoc

This program converts almost any document format (LaTeX, DOC, markdown, etc.) to almost any other format. A great tool to aid workflows where multiple formats are used. ![foss]

SciTeX Writer

Manuscript compilation system with templates for manuscripts, revisions, and supplementary materials, plus figure, table, and citation handling, and an MCP server (38 tools). ![foss]

latexindent

Perl script that indents and reformats LaTeX documents, highly configurable through YAML settings and shipped with the major TeX distributions. ![foss]

tex-fmt

Extremely fast LaTeX formatter written in Rust, with sensible defaults and minimal configuration. ![foss]

Badness

Deterministic, rule-based, and idempotent LaTeX formatter written in Rust (also a linter and language server). ![foss]

ChkTeX

Linter / code checker for LaTeX documents. ![foss]

blacktex

Command-line tool that replaces commonly occurring LaTeX anti-patterns and cleans up your files. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

TeXtidote

A cross-platform (Java) spelling, grammar and style checker for LaTeX documents. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

Badness

Error-tolerant LaTeX linter with rich diagnostics and source snippets (also a formatter and language server). ![foss]

latex2arxiv

CLI tool that prepares a LaTeX project for arXiv submission: prunes unreachable files, strips draft markup, validates the bibliography, and catches desk-rejection errors before upload. Also available as a GitHub Action and MCP server for AI agents. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

Codecogs Eqn Editor

Online LaTeX equation editor that allows you to produce figures containing an equation.

EqualX

Graphical LaTeX formula editor. ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]

KLaTeXFormula

Cross-platform alternative for LaTeXit. ![foss]

Laeqed

Crossplatform LaTeX formula to PNG convertor. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

LaTeXEqEdit

LaTeX formula editor for Windows. ![windows] ![foss]

LaTeXiT

LaTeXit is an equation editor that makes it easy to drag-and-drop rendered equations (as PDF, PNG, etc.) into your non-LaTeX documents on the Mac. ![mac]

LaTeX to Image

Convert LaTeX to PNG, JPEG, or SVG images. Big symbols menu and easy drag-and-drop equations.

pix2tex

LaTeX OCR ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

Image to LaTeX

AI-powered converter that transforms images of handwritten notes, equations, or tables into clean LaTeX code.

TikZ-Editor

Live-previewing editor for TikZ figures. ![mac] ![linux] ![foss]

IPE

Drawing tool that integrates well with LaTeX commands and documents. ![foss]

GeoGebra

Cross-platform geometry tool with output to TikZ. ![foss]

Dia

Cross-platform diagramming tool that can export to PSTricks and MetaPost code. ![foss]

TikZiT

GUI tool for creating graphs and string diagrams using PGF/TikZ. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

LaTeXDraw

Vector-based drawing tool having LaTeX as first-class citizen. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

CTAN

The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network is the place to look for useful packages and documentation.

Cross-reference packages explained

Elaboration on cross-reference packages (cleveref, varioref, theoremref, nameref, etc.): Which to use, which conflict?

Excel2LaTeX

Excel (2010 and older) macros to produce LaTeX `tabular` code. ![windows] ![mac]

csv2latex

Converts CSV files from your favorite programs to LaTeX `tabular`s. ![linux] ![mac]

Tables Generator

This website provides a graphical interface to input your table and produces properly-formatted code for LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, etc.

pgfplotstable

This package displays numerical tables rounded to desired precision in various display formats. It can even read CSV files to include directly in your LaTeX document.

TeXample

Blog about LaTeX, with a big collection of TikZ figures.

pgfplots

Truly awesome plotting library on top of and in the style of TikZ/pgf. This library can load in CSV data files, perform some calculations and create beautiful plots.

A very minimal introduction to TikZ (PDF)

Short introductory document to the world of TikZ, written by Jacques Crémer.

PetarV-/TikZ

Collection of publication-ready PGF/TikZ figures by Petar Veličković.

matlab2tikz

Convert your MATLAB plots to PGFPlots/TikZ. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

tikzplotlib

Convert your matplotlib plots to PGFPlots/TikZ. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]

TikZBlog

Step-by-Step Tutorials about How to Draw Illustrations in LaTeX.

OpenTikZ

Community library of copyable TikZ icons and editable, parametric templates for academic conceptual diagrams (system/architecture, pipelines, flowcharts); CC0 content, with a Claude Code skill to edit figures on request. ![foss]

minted

The minted package uses [pygments](https://pygments.org/) to generate the listings. In this way, LaTeX is able to format more than 300 programming and markup languages and other text formats.

microtype

This package improves the appearance of your documents by enabling margin kerning and font expansion.

nics

An opinionated alternative to Beamer, that we created with the hopes to make common tasks very easy and beautifully rendered by default. Has awesome documentation and a detailed cheatsheet to help you getting started.

LaTeX templates

Collection of templates for papers, posters, resumés, theses, books, presentations, … for LaTeX.

Ultimate Beamer Theme List

Links to various beamer themes along with PDF previews.

LaTeX Beamer Theme Overview

Visual overview of beamer themes included in TeXLive

TeXtured

A typographically elegant, clean, and structured LaTeX template (primarily intended for theses).

Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list

Very extensive list of symbols for LaTeX. Available in [A4](https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf) and [letter](https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-letter.pdf) sizes.

Detexify

You draw the symbol and this site/app will tell you the LaTeX command.

TUG

The TeX User Group is a way to get in touch with other (La)TeX users.

TeXDoc

Online interface to the `texdoc` utility to browse LaTeX packages and documentation.

Dickimaw Books: LaTeX resources

Great overview of resources useful for LaTeX.

LaTeX cookbook

Sibling of TeXample, contains quite a bit of example code.

Visual FAQ

Typesetting issues and a link to appropriate TeX FAQ answers.

MartinThoma's LaTeX example

GitHub repository containing example LaTeX documents.

LaTeX community

Forum about LaTeX.

BibTeX Style Examples

Example output of common BibTeX styles (BST files).

TeX World

Websites supported by the TeX Users Group, DANTE, and GUTenberg.

TeXnique

A LaTeX Typesetting Game.

Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends

Set of examples demonstrating the power of LaTeX.

Showcase of beautiful invitations in TeX

Showcase of invitations typeset using LaTeX.

Showcase of "programming your document" paradigm

Collection of LaTeX documents demonstrating how LaTeX can be used like a programming language.

TUG: TeX showcase

Website from the TUG that shows some examples of what LaTeX can do.

Awesome LaTeX drawing

Curated list of academic drawing examples for using LaTeX

LearnLaTeX.org

Browser-based LaTeX tutorial.

The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e

Very comprehensive introduction to LaTeX.

Begin LaTeX in minutes

Brief intro to LaTeX for beginners that helps you use LaTeX with ease.

Getting to Grips with LaTeX

Complete guide going through the majority of things you need to know about LaTeX.

LaTeX introductions in languages other than English

Collection of introductions in many languages.

Wikibooks: LaTeX

The LaTeX wikibook. Not really a paper book, but it is equally extensive.

The LaTeX Companion, F. Mittelbach (2004)

LaTeX Graphics Companion, M. Goossens (2007)

TeX by Topic (2007)

TeX for the Impatient (2020)

Formatting Information (2020)

This is the HTML5-based online version of the book *Formatting Information - An introduction to typesetting with LATEX*. It has been continuously updated since the early 2000s.

TeXblog

Blog about LaTeX and everything related.

texblog.org

Blog on LaTeX and related topics (tutorials, packages, code snippets, etc.).

TeX Talk

Blog for the TeX Stack Exchange site with news and interviews.

TeX Hour

A weekly video meeting

LinkedIn: TeX/LaTeX User Group

Twitter: @TeXtip

Tips related to (La)TeX by [John D. Cook](https://www.johndcook.com/).

TeX.StackExchange

StackExchange TeX section.

TopAnswers TeX

a free and open source Q&A site for TeX and friends