Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to WebLaTeX
A LaTeX editor with Git, VSCode, Copilot, Grammarly & more
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. WebLaTeX launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor. Contribute to overleaf/overleaf development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sharelatex▲82The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor
2016 · overleaf.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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Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can't. I went down the ContentEditable rabbit hole for a few years, but always came to realize others had solved it…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Microsoft's cross-platform text editor for developers
2016 · code.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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GitHub Agent HQ▲192Run Claude, Codex & Copilot directly in GitHub & VS Code
Feb 2026 · github.blog · 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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A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output - dandavison/delta
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Brackets 1.0▲190An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Edit HTML files visually. Contribute to urin/vscode-web-visual-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.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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Open source rich text editor for the modern web. Contribute to Voog/wysihtml development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a browser extension called Gitcasso which: - Adds markdown syntax highlighting to GitHub textareas - Lists every open PR/issue tab and any drafts - (Optional, unimplemented) autosaves your comment drafts so you don’t lose work I made it because I was impressed by https://overtype.dev/ (a markdown textarea syntax highlighter) which went big on here on HN a few weeks ago, and it seemed like a perfect fit for a GitHub browser extension. Keeping up with changes on upstream GitHub would normally be a pain, but with with Playwright and Claude Code it seemed possible for…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CSS.GUI▲201Open source visual editors for everything in the CSS spec
2022 · components.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on a code editor and I think that it's mature enough to catch some interest. It's using a custom GPU accelerated GUI written in C++. Currently implements some interesting features: LSP, terminal, auto-completion, linters, formatters, custom keybindings, plugins and more. It's a hobby project but still intends to be an alternative to other popular code editors like Sublime, Kate, Lapce, Lite XL (and takes inspiration from them). The project was born as a playground for the GUI I'm developing (eepp GUI) and is advanced enough to currently be my main code editor, but…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned. As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a concrete editor architecture, and a Playwright-based test suite. The agent iterated in a (Ralph) loop over a few nights and produced a working editor from scratch. Core text editing works today. Tables and images are functional but still incomplete. MIT licensed.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Writing is a lightweight distraction-free text editor, in the browser (Markdown and LaTeX supported). - josephernest/writing
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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VS Code extension for building web applications ("swings") using a interactive and editor-integrated coding environment - lostintangent/codeswing
2020 · github.com · 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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Full git and GitHub integration with Sublime Text. Contribute to timbrel/GitSavvy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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