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Kile
Kile is a LaTeX editor, available on Linux: code completion.
- Completely free
- Linux
- Open source
Overview
Kile is a LaTeX editor, available on Linux.
Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: code completion.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
At a glance
Kile is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.
Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- Commercial use allowed
About
Kile is a user-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor by KDE. Kile gives you the ability to use all the functionality of LaTeX in a graphical interface and has interactive preview mechanisms to readily see the results of editing. Features: Compile, convert and view your document with one click Auto-completion of (La)TeX commands Templates and wizards make starting new documents very little work Easy insertion of many standard tags and symbols and the option to define (an arbitrary number of) user defined tags Inverse and forward search: click in the DVI viewer and jump to the corresponding LaTeX line in the editor, or jump from the editor to the corresponding page in the viewer Finding chapter or sections is very easy, Kile constructs a list of all the chapter etc. in your document. You can use the list to jump to the corresponding section Collect documents that belong together into a project Easy insertion of citations and references when using projects Flexible and smart build system to compile your LaTeX documents QuickPreview: preview a selected part of your document Easy access to various help sources Advanced editing commands
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
Sources and checks
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- Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
- Last technical check: 7 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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