Software · Office & notes
Texmaker
Texmaker is a LaTeX editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: syntax highlighting and code completion.
- Completely free
- Windows, macOS and Linux
- Open source
- No account
Overview
Texmaker is a LaTeX editor, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Features described in its Flathub listing, on its official website and in its Winget manifest: syntax highlighting and code completion.
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
- “Texmaker, free cross-platform latex editor” — official website, 10 November 2026
- “It has some nice features such as syntax highlighting, insertion of 370 mathematical symbols with only one click, a structure view of the document for easier navigation.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
- “Texmaker includes unicode support, spell checking, auto-completion, code folding and a built-in PDF viewer with SyncTeX support and continuous view mode.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
At a glance
Texmaker 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
- No account needed
- Commercial use allowed
About
Texmaker is a clean, powerful and highly configurable LaTeX editor. Texmaker integrates an integrated PDF viewer and many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. It has some nice features such as syntax highlighting, insertion of 370 mathematical symbols with only one click, a structure view of the document for easier navigation.
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
Sources and checks
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- Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
- Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
- Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
- Last technical check: 7 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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