TeX Writer - LaTeX On the Go

Chaoji Li

- September 20, 2016

Everyone

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Description

Writing paper on your Android device! TeX Writer lets you write, compile and preview TeX documents right on your tablet or smartphone, and no internet connection is required. Editing TeX is now super easy with the assistant keybar. Comparing to other text editors, it saves you a lot of time in typing LaTeX commands.

- Plain TeX + Full LaTeX (based on pdftex engine).

- Minimal distribution. Missing packages are downloaded on demand.

- No root required.

- No internet connection required except to download missing packages.

- Autorun BibTeX and MakeIndex.

- PDF output. Please install your favorite pdf viewer, for example Adobe PDF reader, to preview the output.

- Syntax highlighting text editor.

- Assistant keyboard for typing frequently used keys

- Dropbox syncing

- Language packages: CJK (Chinese/Japanese), Russian

Basic OS Requirement: Android 2.3+
Dropbox Sync: Android 4.0+

Reviews

3.8

97 total

5 46

4 17

3 14

2 8

1 12

Jean-Louis Bonnet

It worked until today - now crashes I have regularly used it to correct texts when on the go. And it works great! Only problem: forward referencing (e.g. referring to an item in the references) produces only "??". I resolve that problem by running the pdf generation twice, so that the latex files are all there.... Crashed after an update and looks now ok.

Katharina Losch

I'm missing a method to generate and edit .bib files It works nicely but so far I cannot figure out how to generate a .bib file from within the app. After moving a .bib file to my storage, I realized I cannot open them within the app. This is kinda annoying since of course I want to add some references now and then :-( Apart from that, nice app.

Nothing else like it is available on the android market right now. A very basic but solid execution of a LaTeX writing environment. Downloads packages on the fly and has dropbox support. The editor functionality itself is limited, however it is clear that the author has put a lot of effort into other areas like making sure it remains fast and power efficient (as well as the downloading of packages on the fly which is pretty great). I understand lack of editor indenting and such since lines usually wrap on tiny screens. I would like the developer to add more text highlighting and the ability to change font size, as well as the ability to toggle line numbers.

Charles Banas

Useful for on-the-go work for simple LaTeX work, but lacks code completion and, crucially for me, lacks any way of using XeTeX or XeLaTeX, which some of my projects require.

Rodolfo Conde

Very good It needs to improve the editor with text managing functionality.

Wei-lin Wang

Reasonable price for a local LaTeX compiler and editor bundle, much to be improved The tex file editor lacks a scrollbar and inertial scrolling; on top of that, the font size is too big for me, and I can't change that. Therefore, it's impossible for me to edit long documents. It would be better to have an undo, and a dark theme would be easier on the eyes. I have no idea how the Dropbox integration works, it constantly rewrite my file with an old version of the file.

User reviews

Jean-Louis Bonnet September 20, 2016

Katharina Losch December 3, 2016

November 9, 2016

Charles Banas July 28, 2017

Useful for on-the-go work for simple LaTeX work, but lacks code completion and, crucially for me, lacks any way of using XeTeX or XeLaTeX, which some of my projects require.

Rodolfo Conde October 21, 2016

Very good It needs to improve the editor with text managing functionality.

Wei-lin Wang February 4, 2015

Nothing Flake July 3, 2016

one of my ten must-have apps Works out of the box with complex documents including half-obscure packages. Rebought with second google account just to have this on every device. Complete editing and compiling of latex-docs possible in every folder. And even a nice, clean look.

Ryan Martin December 25, 2015

Cannot get Dropbox integration to work on Android No matter what I do, there is no Dropbox integration on my Samsung Galaxy Note Pro, which is strange, because I have managed to get Dropbox integration to work using the iOS version of this program.

Wolfgang Haak April 6, 2015

Early Stages, promising *What's good: - Lightweight, simple interface, and downloads packages on the fly. *What can be improved: -It's not clear if there is an autosave feature? -Syntax highlighting: Not universal, i.e. tabular commands like \hline do not show up. -Compile error: Output is full log - would be good to have the option to filter errors only, so that you don't have to scroll through the whole log to find what didn't work. -Autocompletion: \begin{x} could auto-complete \end{x} -Autocompletion: Opening braces could be matched with closing braces *What's Missing: - Help file. There is no help available. Also, there could be an in-app viewer for the latex wiki-book to look up commands, or other look up mechanism?

Endri Bezati December 29, 2014

Dropbox intégration sucks The program does not work on an android lollipop when the initialization process with Dropbox starts!!! And actually in previous version you could only choose one folder of Dropbox. I am not going my structure of folders just to make it compatible with the app. Update also your UI.

Mahendran Veeramani August 21, 2014

Its working!!! Great technical support It works amazingly good. The best offline latex editor to date. My tablet becomes more productive now. The technical support quickly responded to my concerns. Keep up the good work!! By the way, future updates could include the following features if possible: An side-by-side PDF previewer would be awesome. A quick workaround would be the following: Latest tablets like Samsung Note allow to use multi-windows to be opened concurrently. If Tex Writer also allows this feature, I can open Tex Writer on one side and my favorite PDF viewer on the other side and preview my document by refreshing PDF viewer. At present, I had to toggle between applications Tex Writer and PDF.

Chaoji Li August 21, 2014

LaTeX \documentclass is supported. Can you send an email to support@litchie.com so that we can help you in person?

Cyrrel Nicolas May 25, 2016

The Dropbox issue... Everything else seems to work fine, but when I try to integrate the app to dropbox it crashes.. Pls. fix this issue.

Augusto Ícaro Farias da Cunha December 2, 2014

Now I can make the bibs I was used a free latex offline compiler/editor, but it didn`t compile bibs :/ -- Great app, but it needs a optimized tablet interface ;) -- Tex compiler is ok, now is time to work on interface and add some functions like find & replace, files tabs, text highlight...

Emmanuel Olowosulu August 23, 2014

Works beautifully, but... I would have loved a Windows version, even if paid for separately, that just works like this Android version without installing MikTex or any other dependency. Great job!

Khalid Khan October 20, 2015

I can not get this to work on my LG G Pad...have emailed the developer for support but no response at all...

James Maxwell September 26, 2014

Excellent Works very well on what I've tried so far. Dropbox integration is awesome. My beamer presentations compile without issue. Worth the money to me.

Anatoly Belanovsky October 25, 2014

great! my dreams come true. Where is the undo function?

Chaoji Li July 15, 2013

Sorry, there is no undo at this moment. Undo will be coming in next update.

Fernando Castro April 16, 2016

Dropbox integration it's not working.

Dave Robertson December 26, 2014

Force closes on Nexus 9

David Eddyshaw June 13, 2015

Best Tex for Android Effective and reliable

Beau Martini August 20, 2014

Works Best local latex typesetter. The only other good one is LaTeX Editor, which is free but has some issues loading fonts. Try that first to save $$$. It has a better interface too. This app is overpriced.

Chaoji Li August 21, 2014

Dear Mr. Martini, When talking about the price, shouldn't we take into account that the app will be updated for the rest of its life time free of charge?

Vladimir Lukiyanov August 11, 2014

Works well on Nexus 7 Could use more features, but it compiles my files, so I can't fault the app description.

Adam Ortiz November 4, 2013

Very Limited Not worth $8.00 App has little to no instruction, Very few tools, No explanation on how to start a new file, Best to stick to a desktop version until someone comes up with a decent tex editor that actually has tools to let you save your tex file to a place likke drop box and actually have a tool bar. Best to move on to another app as I am uninstalling

Robert Matson August 11, 2016

Wasted time and Money Bought this one and cannot use it. Color coding is hit and miss, package handling does not follow recursive folder protocol, and log file is cryptic and hard to follow. Sometimes it is not generated at all. What makes this useless is the blatant incompatibility with standard LaTeX commands, specifically the \font command line for setting true type fonts. It also, apparently, does not recognize the \pagestyle command. What else?