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24 alternatives to We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX
A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor. Contribute to overleaf/overleaf development by creating an account on GitHub.
ShareLaTeX is a web-based collaborative LaTeX editor that allows multiple users to work on documents together in real time. Originally a bootstrapped startup, the project is now open source on GitHub, enabling… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We've open-sourced our bootstrapped startup, ShareLaTeX launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Sharelatex▲82The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor
2016 · overleaf.com · its alternatives →
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deco.cx 2.0▲1,078Build web apps 10x faster with Deno, JSX, TS & Tailwind
2024 · decocms.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex, inline comments, tables, and callouts to name a few. Features - Collaborative real-time editor - Spaces (Teamspace) - User permissions - Groups - Comments - Page history - Nested pages - Search - File attachments You can find screenshots of the product on the website. Website:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…
2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →
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TexLite: Lightweight self-hosted collaborative LaTeX editor and Overleaf alternative - SWUFE-DB-Group/TexLite
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Since 2019, I’ve been working on a writing platform designed for creating complex documents (e.g., theses). I personally use it for everything as it also allows to classify documents in categories so you can organize them efficiently. As of a few months ago, the app is also available in the browser, and you can now invite coworkers to collaborate on a document in real time. The app is somewhat inspired by LyX. It offers an intuitive, modern editor, but users don’t need to know any LaTeX. When it’s time to export, they can choose from a range of templates (IEEE paper, thesis, etc.). A…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Show your work. Paste is a new presentation tool for Slack.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Design powerful websites together with your team on Editor X
2021 · wix.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sits behind a paywall. Since I didn't want to pay subscriptions for things that should simply just work, I built the editor I wanted in my free time, where you open a tab, write LaTeX, get your PDF and the files stay all in one folder on my disk. TeXbrain is a static site with no backend. pdfTeX is compiled to WebAssembly (SwiftLaTeX) and runs in your browser. The editor can read and write your…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A minimal, almost class-less CSS library to write modern websites that look like LaTeX documents.
2020 · latex.now.sh · its alternatives →
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Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Convert images and PDFs to LaTeX, DOCX, Overleaf, Markdown, Excel, ChemDraw and more, with our AI-powered document conversion technology.
2018 · mathpix.com · its alternatives →
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A collaborative UML editor; build with etherpad and plantuml - AlexITC/collabuml
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, HN. Gui, Lucis, and the deco.cx team here — we're a bunch of Brazilians building an open-source, all-in-one web editor for the modern TypeScript dev. Check out our GitHub at https://github.com/deco-cx/deco and discover more at our site https://deco.cx/. We built frontend tools at a hyper-growth e-commerce platform for 9 years. Deco.cx is the thing that we wish existed when we were managing hundreds of enterprise-grade React-based websites. The gist is: JSX, HTMX, TypeScript, Tailwind and Deno. All visually editable in a beautiful, collaborative,…
2024 · deco.cx · its alternatives →
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Highlight, share, collaborate, 3 steps to build knowledge
2023 · appsumo.com · its alternatives →
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Collaborate around what you find online on the Web or PDFs
2023 · its alternatives →
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SharePad is a free online code interview tool, it has a real-time collaborative code editor, you can run code with built-in compilers.
2021 · sharepad.io · its alternatives →
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2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We are working on an open-source .docx editor library for apps that need to edit Word documents in the browser. We just shipped 1.0. A lot of existing approaches convert .docx into HTML and lose document semantics along the way. Our editor parses OOXML directly and uses its own rendering+layout engine to produce paged documents with html/css. Edits round-trip back to .docx, so you’re always editing the document, not its representation. The core rendering engine is framework agnostic, with React and Vue ui adapters on top. It’s Apache 2.0. Happy to answer questions.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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