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Setzer

Simple yet full-featured LaTeX editor.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: themes and dark mode.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Dark mode” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Setzer is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) 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

Setzer lets you Write LaTeX documents with an easy to use yet full-featured editor. Features include: Buttons and shortcuts for many LaTeX elements and special characters Comfortable document creation wizard Dark mode Helpful error messages in the build log Looks great on the Gnome desktop Good screen to content ratio Arguably the best .pdf viewer of any LaTeX editor

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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