Texifier : LaTeX editor - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Edit and typeset LaTeX, Plain TeX and Markdown on your iPad or iPhone, no internet connection required, using Texifier, formerly known as Texpad.

Texifier is a LaTeX editor designed for straightforward navigation, editing and typesetting of projects of any size. Open a LaTeX root file, and Texifier will scan it, open any referenced files, extract the document structure for display in the outline view, and configure the typesetter according to the packages and tools used by your document.

Texifier's editor comes with a choice of themes, syntax highlighting, autocomplete of commands, including those defined in your document, and autofill for \cite commands, \ref commands and others. The powerful sidebar can show you a summary of your document structure allowing you to navigate through large multi-file projects with ease. Additionally Texifier's outline lists all labels, figures, tables, todos and it contains a powerful search function that can search and replace across your entire project using either normal text searches or regular expression searches.

TexpadTeX - Texifier's internal, no internet connection required, typesetter comes with PGF drivers, Native Fonts extensions, a Unicode and more, allow it to support almost any LaTeX package available. TexpadTeX also integrates a BibteX tool and a Makeindex compatible indexer for documents that require those tools. The integrated bundle manager takes care of downloading, installing and updating LaTeX packages for you, giving you access to almost the entire LaTeX ecosystem without using any more space on your device than needed.

TexpadTeX can run in Live mode, updating the output as you type, so you never need wait for a typeset to finish again.

For the rare cases of documents that are not compatible with TexpadTeX, you can use our free cloud typesetters. This is fully integrated into Texifier so press typeset, and Texifier will run the typeset in the Cloud, presenting the results just as if they were typeset on your device.

After all typesets, any errors in your document are organised in a table of issues. Tap on an issue to jump directly to the offending line of LaTeX source, or the line in the original log if you wish to read the original output.

Texifier works well with Files App, allowing you to store and work on your documents wherever you wish. On top of that Texifier Connect is directly integrated into Texifier for working across devices and collaborators.

Texifier supports Markdown along with LaTeX. Edit your document in Texifier's syntax highlighting editor, browse the document by outline, then when you press Typeset, the document will be transparently converted and typeset by LaTeX (using a standard template), giving you the informal ease of Markdown with LaTeX's ability to create beautiful and high quality PDFs. Likewise Plain TeX users can edit and typeset their documents in Texifier.

Features:

- Universal binary for iPhone and iPad, optimised for the latest generation of devices.
- Typeset LaTeX to PDF on your iPad and iPhone without need for an internet connection
- Support for LaTeX, Plain Tex and Markdown
- Navigate easily through even the largest projects using the Outline view
- Search all files by string or regex with the global search view
- Browse the typeset errors and warnings either as a raw log, or with the errors and warnings table view.
- Texifier's editor autocompletes commands, and autofills commands such as \ref{...} or \cite{...}
- Use iOS Files app to edit documents in any storage that supports file or folder access
- Instant Live typeset using Texifier's built in TexpadTeX typesetter
- The onboard typesetter supports virtually any LaTeX package or font, including, but not limited to: Beamer, Tikz, Fontspec, Koma Script, e-TeX, graphicx, pgfplots, AMS, RevTeX, Babel, Bibtex and Indices.
- Free typesetting through our secure cloud servers gives you access to all packages in the latest TeXLive distribution.

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4.27 out of 5

52 ratings in Australia

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Bugs make usage a pain

I love the MacOS app, so I was keen to check out the iPad version. A product of this price, considering one has to buy it separately, should not have so many bugs. It seems poorly optimised for computer-like usage of the iPad: Usage with a keyboard leaves a lot to be desired, and trying to multitask with stage manager completely crashes the app. I hope the developers continue to improve the app to the standard set by its MacOS counterpart.

Too buggy

Unfortunately the GUI isn’t stable. I often have to restart the program to use it. Borders on unusable. Better on iphone but still not much good.

Buggy, some things don’t work but it’s slowly getting better

Please fix the “Export Project Output PDF File” button. It does nothing and it could make the difference between me seriously using this app, and having to just give up. Thanks for the effort you’ve put in so far. If you keep it up this can be a real workhorse.

Text and .csv files

I love this for LaTeX on the iPad, but I keep having to delete it because it opens all my text and even .csv files when I click on them from the Files app. A bit intrusive? I have both Numbers and Excel - I only want it to auto open .tex files.

Better than TexWriter

I love the integration with files on the iPad. Also realtime preview is very fast and stable.

Could be better, much better

For example, it could give you access to all directories on your DropBox account like VerbTeX does.

Mediocre and breaks iOS Quick Look

it lets you write LaTeX so It gets at least two stars, but other than that it is useless because: it does not let you drag and drop images (other apps like 1Writer and MWeb implement this) which absolutely undermines the point of using an iPad to include diagrams and screenshots, you’d be better off using a markdown editor for that use case because the inbuilt means of managing images is a nightmare. It does not play well with working on projects, you’re pretty much limited to only using single document LaTeX files. It does not seem to implement any decent snippets so you’ve gotta write everything out by typing. Most significantly it will prevent you from ever being able to preview PDF files on your device, it totally breaks quick look and this is a significant problem. So if you install this you can no longer, for instance, create a PDF from a webpage to annotate. I ultimately can’t see any use for this app because it can’t play nice with large documents and it does not support snippets so it’s totally useless as a primary writer, it doesn’t easily allow drag/drop of images so it’s useless as a means by which to seamlessly add diagrams to a tex document (as opposed to using Inkscape) and if you think you can leave it sitting on your device for the occasion you may need to type up a pdf on an iOS device you’ll never be able to preview PDF’s, arguably a far more integral feature. Ultimately steam clear of this and just use tex on a laptop, it’ll be quicker and easier and this app is just a clunky mess.

Stuck and slow

Work with Dropbox, but really slow! The whole app stuck! Why not just keep the file locally and upload when needed? Download each time is really a bad idea!

Perfect

This app does exactly what it claims to. It allows you to write Latex scripts and export them as pdf files. Having never used Latex before, this app, the Pythonista app and some creative programming (with a lot of help from Google) was all I needed to produce my Mathematics PhD thesis. Money well spent!

A waste of effort

I have tried for a couple of years to use/like this app. I admired the effort of the developer. I really wanted to use LaTeX on my iPad Pro. But it's been a continual disappointment. It never has quite the resources it needs despite downloading all the file libraries on offer and now it seems to crash almost every time I use it for anything more than a trivial "article". I am not sure if the problem is the crippling restrictions of Apple's iOS or the limits of the processor or the App itself. But, overall, I must sadly admit, it has been a waste of time trying to use TexPad for serious work.

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