Overleaf

RATING:

4.8

(28)

About Overleaf

Designed for publishers, academic institutions, and individual authors, Overleaf is a collaborative writing and publishing solution that allows users to write, edit, and publish LaTeX for any document. Overleaf allows users to make changes to any document, simultaneously and will synchronize changes from all authors so everyone always has the latest version. Overleaf automatically compiles the output in real-time so users know how exactly their LaTeX code is translated.

Overleaf Pricing

Overleaf is available across 3 pricing tiers: Personal, Collaborator, Professional. Pricing starts at $10/per month and scales with each tier, outlined below: Personal - $10/per month - Only one collaborator - Premium features - Sync with Dropbox and GitHub - Full document history Collaborator - $15/per month - 10 collaborators per project - All premium features - Sync with Dropbox and GitHub - Full document history - Track changes Professional - $30/per month - Unlimited collaborators - All premium features - Sync with Dropbox and GitHub - Full document history - Track changes

Starting price: 

$10.00 per month

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Available

Overleaf Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Overleaf

1 - 5 of 28 Reviews

User Profile

Mustafa

Verified reviewer

Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2021

Best online tool for Latex

It is the best text editing online cloud I have ever used.

PROS

The best feature of overleaf is perhaps its autofill function.

CONS

Sometimes it fails to recompile relatively larger documents.

Danai

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2021

Overleaf makes Latex easy for everyone

I started using Overleaf 2 years ago while searching for collaboration document creation tools. At first I was scared of transitioning to LaTeX, because I wasn't familiar with it. However, Overleaf has a very user - friendly environment and makes LaTeX easy for everyone! I have to mention that I never had to google a single question on how to use Overleaf, even on day one. Also, their data-driven autocomplete makes you comfortable with LaTeX in a very small amount of time! After a couple of times using Overleaf, I felt completely comfortable with both the environment and the language and I haven't stopped using it since then!

PROS

I started using Overleaf for my university reports and now I can't imagine myself using a different software for document creation. One of my favorite features is the autocomplete of latex commands. It makes it easy for everyone to use it even if they haven't used latex before and saves you a lot of time typing. It is also very easy to use when collaborating with others, since you can simultaneously edit the same file and view their changes real time without pressing any button. Finally, Overleaf has an incredible documentation. A great example of this is that every Latex-related search query in Google returns an answer on Overleaf's documentation page.

CONS

One of the limiting aspects of Overleaf is the small number of free collaborators. Even though you can send the edit link to any number of people, you can only add one collaborator by their email for free and thus have the project at their home page. Also, sometimes the pdf render takes weirdly long to finish, but it always looks good!

Reasons for switching to Overleaf

I used to work on group projects with Google Docs by Google, since it is one of the most popular collaboration tools available for free. However, there was a very limited amount of templates and it was hard to find a suitable one, not to mention creating one from scratch. Overleaf on the other hand offers a vast number of templates for a variety of purposes. Also, it is very easy to customize them and bring them to your needs. In addition to that, it allows real time collaboration, and also features an amazing data-driven autocomplete that saves you a lot of time!

Boryana

Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2024

Powerful tool, not exactly intuitive

PROS

Once you get the hang of it, it’s is a really powerful tool for editing text, formulas and references. In addition to it, it has plenty of good templates which will do just fine for any academic style piece of work. It can also produce presentations.

CONS

Having used Word for most of my work, Overleaf is much less intuitive. The presentations I have managed to produce have style wise have a very 1995 look.

Reasons for switching to Overleaf

For academic writing and use of good referencing editor.

Anonymous

501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Best tool to prepare research papers for scientific publications

In a word, Overleaf makes my life easy while preparing articles for publication. Simply a best tool for researcher's around the world.

PROS

To prepare research article, overleaf helps to prepare the document quickly by providing ready made journal or conference templates. Just need to customize them. Also for preparing CV overleaf is a great tool to anyone who looking for jobs.

CONS

It's fully online and cost is relatively high for students. It needs to be affordable to everyone so that anyone could use the full of this tool. Writing equation is difficult.

Reasons for switching to Overleaf

I sued excel earlier for financial report making and somehow while searching in net I got overleaf to make any documents in more convenient way.

Zahra

Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Overleaf is an excelent for preparing reports, papers, assignements, and online collaboration

Overall, I am totally happy with Overleaf. I believe it is the best software for preparing docuemtns with version control, and reviewing it. It is very affordabel and it helps you to save a lot of time. Moreover, your data is not going to be lost. It is always stored in a cloud storage and you can access it through Internet.

PROS

I love working with Overleaf. I always use it for my work, and there are so many advantages it offers. Here I will mention a couple of them:The version control feature in Overleaf is great. You can always prepare your doment with automatic version control for specific conferences, journals. It also provide so many templates for preparing presentations. I use Overleaf now to prepare presentations instead of using Microsoft Power Point. Also, you can always control permission/access of users. Sometimes I share my document as a read-only doc to my colleagues just because I do not want them to edit it on their own. Another feature I find very useful is the history of changes it provides. I cna always see what changes/modifications the users applied to the document. Writing equations, and adding biblography files to Overleaf is very easy. The final document that Overleaf generate is very readable and perfect. I recommend using Overleaf to professionals who need a docuement preparation and collaboration application.

CONS

I do not have many dislikes. The only things I can mention are as follows:The number of collaborators you are allowed to invite will depend on the plan you are part of. You can not share your document to more that 3 collaborators in Overleaf free version. However, the paid version totally worth it if you prepare docuements more often at work. You do not have the option of working on the docuement offline. You always need access to the internet and a browser like firefox, microsoft edge, etc to open Overleaf.