A privacy-focused LaTeX editor for your most ambitious writing.

Texpile is an open source desktop LaTeX editor. It compiles the power of TeXstudio and LyX into a modern interface.

Texpile editing a LaTeX paper, with the PDF preview beside it

Math

Tab finds any symbol by name.

Two ways to write a document

Unlike LyX, Texpile stores nothing but .tex. Write in source or write visually, in the same file, and it is saved back with only your edits changed.

$Typing in the visual editor$

Visual editing

Type @ to reference any equation, figure, table, or citation.
Equations render inline and keep their numbering.
Tables support multirow and multicolumn, edited visually.
Drag or paste images in, then resize with handles.

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$Source editor completing \cite with bibliography keys and titles$

Source editing

Autocomplete for commands, environments, \ref, and \cite.
File paths complete inside \input and \includegraphics.
References update when you rename or move a file.
Your own \newcommand macros are picked up.

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Built for reviews

Write like an author, not a developer.

The visual editor showing a heading and a sentence changed since the last version

Visual diff

Against your last commit, in whichever editor you are in.

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A comment thread and a suggested insertion beside the text, in the visual editor

Comments and suggestions

We write, right? Not code. So of course this is here.

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Live preview

Texpile runs its own script inside the lualatex you already have installed, so most changes render in under 20 ms.

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Write together in real time

Share a project with up to 8 other people and edit it together in real time. No account needed, and end to end encrypted.

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AI integration

Uses Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot or OpenCode, whichever is already on your computer, with your own subscription rather than an API key.

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Claude Code in the Agent tab, its edit to the abstract waiting as a suggestion

Themes

Light or dark mode, and a color theme for the whole window, picked in Preferences.

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Preferences › Appearance: the Mode tiles and the theme tiles

Works with the tools around your paper

The cite dialog listing papers that match a search

Cite by title or DOI

Crossref, arXiv, ISBN and PubMed. Zotero works too, with Better BibTeX.

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The Publish Branch dialog with a repository name and Private selected

Publish to GitHub

From Source Control, with no command line.

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Also in Texpile

The features every LaTeX editor has. They did not earn a section of their own.

Built-in terminal

A real shell for latexmk or any compile command.

Multi-file projects

Fragments parse with the main file's macros.

Command palette

Ctrl+K opens a file, compiles, or runs any editor action.

Vim and Emacs

Modal keybindings for the source editor, chosen in Preferences.

Multiple cursors

Add cursors down a column, or select the next occurrence.

Spell check

Checks your prose, skips commands, math, and comments.

MCP

Connect Claude and other AI assistants to the editor.

Tabs and session restore

Reopen a folder and your tabs and cursor come back.

SyncTeX

Click in the PDF to jump to the source line, and back.

Math preview

Equations preview live in the source editor.

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Free. Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Compiles with your own TeX distribution: TeX Live, MacTeX, or MiKTeX. Editing works without one.

Windows · macOS · Linux · Offline · AGPL-3.0