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24 alternatives to Xenops: LaTeX editing with automatic asynchronous rendering in Emacs

An editing environment for LaTeX mathematical documents - dandavison/xenops

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Xenops: LaTeX editing with automatic asynchronous rendering in Emacs launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Fulvid▲86
A standalone desktop editor for Markdown and MDX
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
2
Brackets 1.0▲190
An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
3IC
Interactive Calculus via LaTeX▲114
Ximera provides the backend technology for online courses
2018 · ximera.osu.edu · its alternatives →
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Atom▲145
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →
5
NotebookJS▲109
Scientific computation for JavaScript
2016 · datazar.com · its alternatives →
6
Squire▲123
The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.
2014 · neilj.github.io · its alternatives →
7
Iterograph▲74
An iterative drawing tool
2016 · iterograph.laboiteatortue.com · its alternatives →
8AS
A small symbolic math command line using algebrite and katex▲5
2018 · bwasti.com · its alternatives →
9AG
A grid based editor for Markdown tables, CSV, Gherkin tables, HTML▲9
2021 · eviltester.github.io · its alternatives →
10XR
Xcell – Reactive, spreadsheet-like calculations in JavaScript▲9
2018 · tomazy.github.io · its alternatives →
11IR
Interactive research papers (a big step up from ArXiv HTML)▲9
I’ve been frustrated with PDFs and found arXiv HTML lacking, so I built a fully interactive paper reader. Features: • Hover references, citations, equations • Light/dark mode • Auto-generated dependency graphs for definitions/lemmas/theorems • Table of contents that syncs with scroll • Highlighting + annotations • “Copy raw LaTeX” anywhere Featured paper: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners (Veo 3) https://www.sciencestack.ai/arxiv/2509.20328v2
Nov 2025 · sciencestack.ai · its alternatives →
12AK
A keyboard-centric flowchart editor▲6
2021 · knotend.com · its alternatives →
13OS
Open-source SIMD-accelerated math library for C/C++/C#/Java/FORTRAN▲9
2013 · yeppp.info · its alternatives →
14BE
Bob-editor – create and edit ASCII art graphically▲6
2024 · ivanceras.github.io · its alternatives →
15
KeenWrite, a Desktop Text Editor▲6
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
16
Asciimatics: a cross-platform terminal animation/drawing library▲21
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations - peterbrittain/asciimatics
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Math Forge▲11
AI-powered math editor for beautiful, fast LaTeX formulas
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Archetype▲17
ASCII prototyping tool
2017 · fatiherikli.github.io · its alternatives →
19XR
XMap – Replacing your walls of sticky notes▲5
2015 · xmapit.com · its alternatives →
20AT
A tool to visualize exponential sums▲8
2019 · anvaka.github.io · its alternatives →
21OS
Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install)▲5
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
22
3D Editor to Create Animations, in the Browser▲8
2021 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
23
Season's greetings from Attractor, a fractal graphing calculator▲6
An interactive preset in Attractor, a tool to generate and animate fractals based on iterated functions of complex numbers
2020 · attr.actor · its alternatives →
24
The Julia Language▲10
A high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language
2017 · julialang.org · its alternatives →

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