
TexSense
See your word count update live while writing on Overleaf
What it does
TexSense is a browser extension that counts words in Overleaf's LaTeX editor as you type. No more recompiling or downloads. See your writing progress in real time. Supports Chrome and Firefox. Try it now to boost your writing productivity!
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TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM12d ago · github.com · ▲118I'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…
- LWLatex-wc – Word count and word frequency for LaTeX projectsFeb 2026 · github.com · ▲10
I was revising my proposal defense and kept feeling like I was repeating the same term. In a typical LaTeX project split across many .tex files, it’s awkward to get a quick, clean word-frequency view without gluing everything together or counting LaTeX commands/math as “words”. So I built latex-wc, a small Python CLI that: - extracts tokens from LaTeX while ignoring common LaTeX “noise” (commands, comments, math, refs/cites, etc.) - can take a single .tex file or a directory and recursively scan all *.tex files - prints a combined report once (total words, unique words, top-N…


TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace11d ago · github.com · ▲21TexLite: Lightweight self-hosted collaborative LaTeX editor and Overleaf alternative - SWUFE-DB-Group/TexLite
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