Texifier : LaTeX editor
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | $29.99 | Valletta Ventures UK Ltd | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Texpad is a comprehensive LaTeX workspace on your iOS device. Edit your document in Texpad's custom editor with it's advanced autocomplete and LaTeX customised onscreen keyboard, typeset your document with the integrated LaTeX and BibTeX typesetters, and share and collaborate on your documents, on and offline, using Texpad's Dropbox.
After a successful typeset you can preview your pdf right on your device, but if there are errors in your document, Texpad replaces LaTeX's obscure console output with a table of issues found during typesetting. Tap on an issue to jump directly to the offending line of LaTeX source. Tap on a missing file error and Texpad's integrated bundle manager will prompt you to install it. Of course, the full LaTeX and BibTeX log is available if you wish to investigate further.
The onboard, no internet connection required, typesetter comes with PGF drivers allowing you to create beautiful diagrams and presentations with Tikz and Beamer respectively. Texpad's typesetter integrates with TeX's virtual font system so that Texpad can typeset with any LaTeX font. The bundle manager takes care of downloading, installing and updating LaTeX packages for you, giving you access to the entire LaTeX ecosystem without wasting precious space on your device.
Texpad comes with the same powerful editor core as it's Desktop cousin, so it has been designed from the start to deal with large projects. When you open a LaTeX root file, Texpad will read through the source, open any \include-d files, extract all the \section, \subsection structure tags and present you with a browsable outline of your entire project. It doesn't stop at autocompleting simple LaTeX commands - all \labels and BibTeX entries are read by the parser and offered as autocomplete suggestions for \cite{} and \ref{} commands.
Texpad supports Markdown on an equal footing with LaTeX. Edit your document in Texpad's syntax highlighting editor, browse the document by outline, then when you press Typeset, the document will be transparently converted and typeset by LaTeX, giving you the informal ease of Markdown with LaTeX's ability to create beautiful and high quality PDFs.
Features:
* Import and export documents from Texpad by email, iTunes and Dropbox. Texpad's Dropbox support works both on and offline, synchronising your changes for you as you work.
* Typeset LaTeX to PDF on your iPad, iPod, iPhone without need for an internet connection. BibTeX is also built in to handle bibliographies.
* The onboard typesetter supports virtually any LaTeX package or font, including, but not limited to: Beamer, Tikz, Koma Script, e-TeX, graphicx, Pgfplots, AMS, RevTeX, Babel.
* Universal binary for iPhone, iPod and iPad, optimised for iOS7 and the latest generation of devices.
* Texpad's syntax highlighting editor comes with touchscreen gestures and symbol palettes that guarantee Texpad is the quickest and easiest way to edit LaTeX on your iPad, iPod or iPhone.
* The outline view enables you to navigate quickly around even the biggest multi-file projects.
* Autocompletes all commands (even user defined) and autofills references and citations defined in your document.
* Global search through all files in a project by either text or regular expression.
* Additionally, free typesetting through our secure cloud servers gives you access to all packages in the latest TeXLive distribution.
Reviews
Still not great
AMJ2
I tried using this application a few years ago. It was not easy to set up with the required packages and links to a users general include files. This one is no better. It balked at simple commands (\usepackage, \ifndef) and has little documentation on these sorts of issues.
Overall not mad at it. But can not replace laptop
max9885
The backup options are extremely limited. You cannot even sync with iCloud. Also the duel panel (.tex on left and live view on right) does not work 99% of the time. So you basically have write all the .tex out and then view it in full screen. I would say once these 2 issues are fixed, I can see myself fully transition onto my iPad
I would buy this twice...
DougSaylor
I am very impressed with this application. The interface and functionality are very good. I use it almost daily for a wide range of documents and it’s been fantastic.
Needs Quality of Life Improvements
zbryant3
This app really is great. Being able to work on homework and papers on my iPad has been super. The app even compiles quicker than my laptop that has a intel 8750-H. However, there are some key quality of life improvements that need to be made that I’ve noticed so far. Firstly, when I type a curly bracket {, it auto fills the other side being }. However if the next character is the close bracket, and I type it instead of using the one already provided, it will do something like {}}. It will also do this with parenthesis and $ used for the inline math environment. I wish it wouldn’t replicate these characters if the next character after the cursor is that character (this is what other text editor solutions automatically do). Additionally, I use my apple keyboard to type on my iPad. Thus when I want to use the prediction that auto fills, I wish I could use the arrow keys along with tab in order to choose which selection I want to use. Lastly, DARK MODE PLEASE. This is a must and would make the editor so much easier to use for longer durations. The file browser solution could also look prettier and be easier to use - but that is something minute for me.
Solid Software, Needs Tuning
3spn4life
I just recently purchased this app after having come from being a longtime TexPad user on macOS. I was surprised to see how fluent the interface is for iPadOS. I was very skeptical before making this purchase, but the software itself is pretty seamless in terms of writing LaTeX markup code and churning up documents. However, I do have two key criticisms that I think would vastly improve the quality of this app. First, this needs to be more compatible with more cloud storage services. I use Google Drive for most of my professional documents and being unable to save and access documents I have saved in the cloud is very inconvenient. I have my Google Drive linked into the Files app on my iPad Pro and yet it still will not allow me to connect to it through that avenue as well. Secondly, making it easier to store commonly used files (e.g., .sty style sheets and conference proceedings templates) would be a major improvement. It’s available on the macOS version of TexPad and I would love to have it featured here as well.
make no mistake, I meant zero star.
yush01
The app fails at the one thing it should deliver: typeset latex files. So I don’t see any reason the $20 app should be awarded any star. It fails at including pdf files using pdflatex and keeps complaining there is no BoundingBox to my pdf figures. Heck, I cannot even switch to pdflatex as a typesetter. When I tried to make the choice in the preference menu, I was switched back to ConTeXT. By the same means I cannot select to use BibTeX. Which brings me to bibliography. It does not work. I contacted customer service and was asked to provide a minimal working example. Well, I took a small chunk of my manuscript and the figure inclusion worked! The app is not even consistent enough to reproduce its own bugs. So i don’t even know how to communicate with the cunstomer service about this problem. And, bibliography still does not work via BibTeX. In conclusion, do not waste your $20!!!!
Crashing
iampratiksarkar
It is repeatedly crashing when I am trying to work on my paper. They should release an update that will take care of it.
Doesn’t work most of the time
Phil Rahn
Texpad is an easy to use app for both desktop and mobile devices. The editor is beautifully designed. The app, however, is terrible at compilation. Despite the aesthetic of the application, I’ve wasted so much of time on fixing compilation issues by having to manually use the command line to compile, that I’ve decided that this app is not worth the frustration. To the developers, please work on this. The issue seems to be with the cache of compiled documents.
