Texifier : LaTeX editor Reviews

I cant save the generated PDF file at all

Amith Narayan

This is really crappy.

Cannot generate PDF in iPhone 7s plus

Flywithkids

It crashes when asked to generate the PDF. Please fix!

Lost my Tex file!! VERY UNRELIABLE

Hamzed

Thanks for deleting an important tex file i had worked on for such long time! My tex file became 0 bytes in dize when I moved it to my Dropbox folder. The file was removed from my iPhone as well and not available on Dropbox! So unreliable!

Good for basic usage

Obi-van

I was looking for an app that would allow me to compile the files I use when traveling. Most often these are Beamer presentations that use TIKZ, images, etc. After downloading all the extra packages Texpad asked me to download, the app crashes every 2 minutes and it never compiles my presentation. Now, the app looks really nice and seems to be promising (I can compile without problem v basic files). Unfortunately, I can't travel without my computer as I can't rely on this (or any other) LaTeX app. Hope it gets better in the future.

Good for basic files

Triman38

Seems to work fine for basic files, but has problems with both .sty and .cls files. Also has issues with chapters or sections using include. I hope they fix these problems soon.

buggy for more complex projects

stan.nikola

if you’re gonna do a simple one file Latex project, I suppose all of the advertised features would work well. I bought it for a project with figures placed in folders for each chapter and chapters broken into individual TEX files and I’m having the hardest time even copying the files around. The folders are impossible to create in the Connect drive, the app crashes if you try to copy larger number of files in a batch... I got it cause it was supposed to be the best latex app for the iPad, but I’m disappointed with all the bugs. The app feels like an early beta.

Excellent TeX platform

wb7vtv

This is a Godsend for people who want to do technical writing in iOS. I particularly like the two panel mode where the pdf output is continually updated as one types in the source files. Initially the app didn’t work well, with mysterious hangs and other weird behaviors - these were largely resolved by removing and re-downloading the app. After this, the app worked very well. I have a few minor quibbles: the typesetting speed is several times slower than a competing product and it would be nice if the synchronization between the source and output worked both ways. All in all, a great product and I hope it keeps improving.

Excellent so far .... But!!!

(Farhad)

I have always been looking for such app and ... here it is. It has been doing an excellent job so far. It is unfortunate that it does not support eps files locally but it does not matter. It is fabulous for simple tasks, beamers, etc etc. Do not expect a desktop version. It does what it should on an iPad. P.S. Clicking on a certain spot is very difficult. The cursor jumps randomly from place to place. I do not think that it is hard to fix in the next update.

Frustrating and unpolished

bazoobazoo

This app is suitable for doing some light texxing on the go, but is unsuitable as a replacement for a standard text editor on the computer. It is a far better solution than other iOS apps (such as VerbTex) or web apps (such as Overleaf). Autocompletion doesn't work as one would expect, and doesn't happen consistently. For instance, typing a left bracket followed by a backspace will result in a stray right bracket remaining in the text. Typing \[ to begin math mode will provide a closing left bracket, rather than a closing \]. Typing $ adds the ending $, with the cursor positioned between them, but after I've finished typing the math I don't know a quick way to reposition the cursor after the closing $. When I have keyboard attached I can hit the arrow keys until I'm back where I would have been. Typing, say, "\somecommand[" will not insert the right bracket, whereas "somecommand[" will insert the right bracket. There are other situations where the paired bracket does not appear. Overall, the situation makes it very difficult to type without making bracket-matching mistakes. The preferences panel only has one option for autocompletion - it must either be on or off. So I'm left to choose between enabling the totally broken autocompletion of brackets that I've just described, or disabling the reasonable and useful autocompletion of environments (adding an \end{proof}, for example) which does work. Both options are bad. Buttons on the added keyboard bar don't necessarily work. For instance, "comment" doesn't make a comment whether I have text selected or not. Pressing the button seems to do nothing at all. Downloading extra fonts was a terrible experience. It often just gave a "download failed" error with no way to try again - I had to restart the app in order to get it to try again. It slowly downloaded something like thirty thousand files and took me many attempts and days of trying. One should really make it so their iPad doesn't lock when trying to perform this operation.

Reasonable, but issue with Export->Copy

abcmnich

The app is awesome, the idea is great, the handwriting recognition is impressive. However, after paying to unlock the export and then trying the export copy feature (to have the TeX land in my TexPad app, another awesome and impressive tool), I was surprised to consistently see double the amount of necessary text. That’s right: hand-write say x+y, say Export,Copy and then go into TexPad and say Paste — you receive x+yx+y ! Now that is quite burdensome. Of course, if I try say with Notes, this does not happen. If then, right away, I select the text from Notes, copy and then paste into TexPad, it does not happen either. So I don’t know who is to blame (my app writing skills are not very extensive, but I am a Computer Scientist, having been working with various other stuff, practical and theoretical, for almost for 30 years). If I dare to try to “open into” directly into TexPad, then it opens a new file, which I clearly do not need (and it also forgets where it had an already open file from — I had to quit TexPad and to restart). I know these things can be quite a bit tricky, from having myself tinkered with apps in the past. So I am still full of respect and admiration towards all these apps and all that is unfolding, and keep the five stars. May I advise a bit of cooperation and integration between these two really great tools, if possible ? Thanks !!!

Texifier : LaTeX editor Reviews – Page 8