I frequently write my documents in LaTeX. A long time ago I moved all my documents from Overleaf to offline due to the compile limit. However, I miss the visual editor and real-time collaboration. I tried Live Share before but it is super buggy. So this is the original reason Texpile was made.
Besides the features in your standard LaTeX editor such as Overleaf / LaTeX Workshop / TeXstudio, you also get these:
- Real-time LaTeX preview (like Typst's instant preview)
- Visual editor
- End-to-end encrypted real-time collaboration.
- You can directly paste images into the file explorer
And a few other features that most LaTeX editors have: SyncTeX, git diff view, spell checker, formatter, etc.
I think this is excellent open-source software. I had been looking for LaTeX-related tools for some time, and I really appreciate the intuitive usability of this one.
By the way, do you have any plans to support vertical text layouts or documents? When I looked for similar tools in the past, I found ones that supported horizontal writing but none that supported vertical writing, so I ultimately gave up on using them. If vertical writing support were added, I would certainly consider using this tool should the opportunity arise again.