Changelog

A build issue silently dropped a browser-compatibility shim from the published PDF renderer, so Chrome could fail to decode a document's embedded fonts and drew stray letters instead ("Z" for an integral sign, "p" for a square root). The shim now always ships and covers more browser versions. Compiled and downloaded PDFs were always correct — only the on-screen preview was affected.

We benchmarked candidate models on real LaTeX tasks (rewrites that must preserve \"o-style escapes, broken-build repairs, table transcription) and switched both features to the winner. Try to fix in particular now succeeds more often on first try — especially in documents using LaTeX accent escapes — and responses come back noticeably faster.

Beyond the recent [htbp] fix: tabular column specs like {lcr}, \verb and \lstinline contents, \href URLs, biblatex citation keys (\parencite, \textcite, …), starred forms like \vspace*, and options for \hypersetup, \lstset, \geometry and friends are no longer flagged as misspelled words.

Open the Logs view after a successful compile to read the raw transcript, and download the PDF and .log output files from the new Output files section at the bottom.

Undefined citations and references are found live — before compiling — in every file, not just the one you have open. Click a check to jump straight to the spot.

Draft new text at the cursor or rewrite a selection without having to know the ⌘K shortcut first.

Eleven ready-to-use templates — CV, thesis, IEEE paper, Beamer slides, poster, and more — each with real compiled previews. Open any of them straight into a new project.

The selection pill now has a comment button next to Rewrite (or press ⌘⇧M / Ctrl+Shift+M — works for every collaborator, no AI needed). Comment threads open as floating bubbles anchored to the highlighted text, where you can reply and resolve without leaving your place, and lines with comments get a small speech-bubble marker beside the line numbers.

Put your cursor inside any math — $…$, \[…\], or environments like align and gather — and a small bubble above the equation shows the rendered result live as you type. The ⋮ menu in the bubble hides it; re-enable anytime from the command palette (“equation preview”).

A new looping demo on the Features page shows an AI assistant you already use calling Samskrift's MCP tools — reading a file, editing it, and recompiling the project. No new AI tool to learn: Samskrift comes to the places you already work.

It mirrors the real Edit-figure flow: one click on the pill selects the whole tikzpicture, and the requested change lands as an inline diff you accept or reject.

The looping demos on the Features page were rebuilt as faithful miniatures of the actual Samskrift UI — the real editor chrome, syntax colors, table dialog, symbol palette, review panel, and AI diff styling. A sixth demo shows Image-to-Tex turning a pasted screenshot into working LaTeX.

The features page now shows small looping demos of the product in action: real-time collaboration, the visual table editor, draw-to-find symbols, commenting, and inline AI editing with diffs. They're drawn live in the page, so they stay crisp on any screen and match light and dark mode.

Previously, when you edited offline and came back online, you'd receive your collaborators' work — but anyone who stayed online wouldn't see your offline edits until they reloaded the page. The reconnect sync is now two-way, so your offline work appears for everyone the moment you're back.

Refined the story of why Samskrift exists — emphasizing our commitment to keeping it free and accessible for students and teachers who need high-performance collaborative LaTeX.

samskrift.com/about tells the story of why Samskrift exists — built by two engineers who spend their summers teaching at math camps. It includes a feedback form (no account needed): tell us what to build next.

The features page now links to the Connect AI guide from the AI section and the MCP server row, and the FAQ answers a new question: “Does my AI agent work in Samskrift?”

The browser-tab icon shows a little more of the s — a subtle rebalance of the \s mark.

The AI assistant guide at samskrift.com/connect now shows the official Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Codex logos (in monochrome, matching the theme), adds step-by-step instructions for connecting OpenAI's Codex CLI, and gains a collapsible reference of all 21 tools connected agents can call — including the parameters each one takes.

Samskrift now speaks MCP: point Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any MCP-capable tool at samskrift.com/mcp and it can list your projects, read and edit files, compile, browse history, and join the project chat — signed in as you, with every change in version history. Step-by-step setup lives on the new samskrift.com/connect page.

The free daily allowance changes from 2,000 to 1,000 AI credits per day — still plenty for a full day of rewrites, fixes, and snips. Bonus credits work as before and kick in automatically when the daily allowance runs out.

The social share card is now exactly 1200×630 and link previews include the site name, so pasting samskrift.com into chats and social apps renders crisply everywhere.

Click the Title or Last modified column headers to sort your projects (your choice is remembered), and hover any relative time like “3 hours ago” to see the full date and time.

Accounts can now hold bonus AI credits on top of the daily 2,000-credit allowance — the daily allowance is always used first, and any bonus balance shows up in Account settings.

The “Last modified” column now reads like “14 hours ago by Alice” — handy for shared projects. Existing projects are filled in from their edit history.

Under the Recompile arrow you'll find "Draft mode (fast preview)": it compiles with LaTeX's draft class option, so images become placeholder boxes and heavy packages skip expensive work — multi-minute builds often finish in a fraction of the time. A Draft badge in the toolbar reminds you it's on (click it to turn off), and draft builds never replace your stored full-quality PDF.

One status line instead of two spinners: while a build runs, the strip rotates through short messages ("Still working…", "Big projects take a bit longer…", plus a Draft-mode tip) next to an elapsed clock, and ends with a brief "Completed in m:ss". The per-project time estimate is gone — cached and cold builds differ so much that it was often wrong.

When nothing changed since the last build, the compile service simply confirms your PDF is current instead of re-sending it — no multi-megabyte download for a no-op recompile, including the automatic compile right after reopening a project.

Big projects can legitimately take minutes to build. While compiling you now see a status strip with escalating messages ("still working…", "this looks like a big project…"), an elapsed-time clock, and — once a project has compiled successfully — a "usually takes ~2 min" estimate with a progress bar.

Documents that use fontspec, polyglossia or Lua code fail under pdfLaTeX with a cryptic fatal error. The error log now recognizes these failures, explains what's wrong, and offers a "Switch to XeLaTeX and recompile" button. ZIP imports also pick the right engine automatically by reading magic comments and the packages your document loads.

If you stop the "Try to fix" agent after it already edited files, it now posts a summary of exactly what it changed in the project chat with a Revert button, and the stop notification gets a Revert action too — no more silently kept changes.

Fold away chapters/ or figures/ and the tree looks the same when you come back: collapsed folders are now remembered per project on your device. New folders still start expanded.

When a build has errors, you now still get the partial PDF the compiler managed to produce, shown alongside the error log, so you can see how far the document got instead of staring at an old preview. Works in the editor, on shared view links, and via MCP.

Imports now upload in parallel batches with automatic retries, finish large projects in a fraction of the time, warn you before you close the tab mid-import, and tell you exactly which files (if any) could not be imported instead of dropping them silently.

Images like överkropp.png were silently skipped during upload and ZIP import. They now import fine and keep their original names in the file tree.

The compiler now fetches your images straight from project storage instead of your browser re-uploading them on every compile, and only sends files the build server does not already have.

Binary assets were being measured with ~33% upload-encoding overhead, so projects well under the size limit could hit "Project too large to compile". Sizes are now measured on the real file bytes, the limit is raised to 100 MB, and the error now tells you your project's size and its largest files.

Tab accepts the highlighted suggestion when the autocomplete popup is open, and opens it when your cursor is right after a \command or word. Elsewhere it still indents.

Deleting projects, files, labels, and templates, restoring history, reverting an AI fix, removing collaborators, and transferring ownership now ask in a styled in-app dialog with clear buttons, instead of the browser's native popup.

Error and warning indicators in the editor now disappear as soon as a file is edited after a compile, instead of drifting onto the wrong rows. They come back, refreshed, with the next compile.

Every project now compiles on Samskrift's own build service — typically a second or two per recompile — with automatic fallback to the standard public services if a build can't be taken. The beta toggle in account settings is gone.

The landing page slimmed down: the FAQ now lives at samskrift.com/faq, and a new samskrift.com/features page shows everything that's included — with a spotlight on inline AI editing for tables and figures — plus what's still on the way. The old comparison-page address redirects there.

Type @ in project chat to pick a collaborator by name — mentions are highlighted in the conversation.

Opening a file with unseen collaborator edits now marks the changed lines with a green bar in the gutter (a hatched bar where content was removed), and a small banner offers Next to hop between the changes. Markers follow your edits and clear when dismissed.

New page at samskrift.com/overleaf-alternative: an honest, feature-by-feature comparison with Overleaf's free tier — collaborator limits, compile timeouts, history, offline, AI tools — plus a one-minute migration guide and, in fairness, the things Overleaf still does better.

samskrift.com now answers the questions we hear most (pricing — still free, Overleaf import, package support, collaborator limits, offline, AI) right on the landing page, and links shared on social media or in chat apps now show a proper Samskrift card instead of a plain text preview.

The file-tree dots marking collaborator edits are now stored with your account instead of per device: view a file on your laptop and the dot clears on your phone too. There's also a new mark-all-as-seen button in the file tree header whenever any dots are showing.

Press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P in the editor for a searchable palette of every action: compile, layout switching, focus mode, search, table editor, AI assist, spell check and Vim toggles, downloads, sharing and more — each with its shortcut listed. Cmd/Ctrl + P still jumps to files.

Files that collaborators edited since you last looked now get a small dot in the file tree — and collapsed folders show the dot when anything inside them changed. Opening the file clears it. Markers are tracked per device and only start counting from your first visit, so you won't get a wall of dots on old projects.

Press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + ? anywhere in the editor for a full, grouped cheat sheet of every shortcut — compile, navigation, editing, AI and layout — with proper Mac symbols on Mac. Also available from the project menu under Help.

Open a .bib file and a new Tidy button appears in the toolbar: it reformats every entry into a clean, consistent style (one field per line, aligned values), optionally sorting entries by key, year or author. Comments and @string blocks are preserved, the whole cleanup is a single undo step, and if anything about the file can't be parsed safely it's left untouched.

Put the cursor on a \cite key, \ref target or \label name and press F2: Samskrift finds every use across all project files — including the entry header in your .bib files — shows you a per-file count, and renames them in one go. Citation keys and labels are treated as separate namespaces, commented-out code is left alone, and you get a heads-up if the new name is already taken.

Project history has a new Activity tab: a feed of who edited which file, across every file in the project, grouped into sessions with author, edit count and time range. Click a session to jump to that file, or open its edit timeline directly to scrub through the exact changes.

If a \cite key doesn't exist in any .bib file (or \bibitem) in the project, it now gets a warning squiggle right in the editor — no need to wait for a compile to catch the typo. The same goes for \ref, \eqref, \autoref, \cref and friends pointing at a \label that doesn't exist. Comment lines are skipped, natbib/biblatex/cleveref commands are covered, and both checks stay quiet when the project has nothing to check against.

Entries in the Insert citation dialog now carry a "not cited" badge when no file in the project cites them, and a counter in the footer filters the list down to just those — handy for pruning a .bib or spotting a forgotten reference.

A new toolbar button (book icon) searches every .bib file in your project by author, title, year, venue or key, and inserts \cite{key} at the cursor — or adds the key if you're already inside a \cite. Autocomplete inside \cite{...} now shows author names, year and the paper title alongside each key instead of a bare list.

The version-compare dialog now has a 'Restore this file' button that applies the older version of the file you're looking at — review and roll back in one place.

The History panel now has a Compare view: pick any snapshot (or the current state) on each side and see exactly what changed, file by file, with word-level highlights. Works in unified or side-by-side layout, long unchanged stretches collapse automatically, and the edit timeline gained a matching 'Compare with now' button for any point on the slider.

Recompiles now upload only what changed: unchanged images and other large files are referenced by fingerprint instead of being re-sent, and the engine keeps each project's intermediate build files warm even after you add, rename or remove files. Image-heavy projects and documents with bibliographies or tables of contents rebuild noticeably faster.

When an AI edit suggests an equation — display math or an equation/align block — a rendered preview now appears right below the inline diff, so you can see the actual formula before accepting.

Cmd/Ctrl-click toggles files in and out of a selection, Shift-click selects a range. Drag any selected row to move the whole selection into a folder, or right-click for bulk actions: move everything to a chosen folder or delete all selected items at once. The Delete key works too, and Esc clears the selection.

The Cmd/Ctrl+K AI assist panel used to dock in the top-right corner of the editor. It now appears right below the line you're on — flipping above it near the bottom of the editor — and follows along as you scroll.

Vim-style browser extensions (Vimium and friends) intercept Esc and blur the editor before it ever sees the key, which made the cursor vanish instead of switching to normal mode. The editor now detects that stolen Esc, restores focus and completes the mode switch itself. The block cursor also stays clearly visible whenever the editor loses focus.

A failed build already put a dot in the gutter — now the offending token itself gets a red squiggle on the error line (for example an undefined command like \MCP), so you can spot the problem without opening the logs. File matching between the log and your open file is also more forgiving, and duplicate log entries are collapsed.

When you select text that cuts into an environment — say half of a corollary including its \begin line — opening the AI edit box now expands the selection to the full \begin…\end block, so the AI can rewrite the environment itself (never expanding to the whole document).

The log view used to mix everything into one list. Errors now always sit at the top in their own category, with warnings and typesetting nits (overfull boxes and the like) grouped separately below. The Try to fix button moved into the Errors section to make clear it targets exactly those — warnings are left alone.

If a build failed but the log parser could not extract any specific errors, the log view used to say "No errors or warnings" and hide the Try to fix button. Failed builds now always say so plainly, open the raw log automatically, and offer Try to fix — the fix agent reads the full log, so it works even when nothing was parsed. The parser also learned the "!pdfTeX error:" format used for missing images and other engine-level failures.

With text selected, the shortcut opens the floating AI edit box right at your selection — no need to click the Rewrite pill (which now shows the shortcut). With just a cursor on a line, it opens the AI assist panel so you can ask for a first draft to insert there. On mobile, a \s button in the quick-insert bar does the same.

Attached images used to be reference-only. Now, if you attach or paste an image and ask the AI to show it in the document — "insert this screenshot as a figure here" — the suggestion comes back with real \includegraphics code, and the image is uploaded into your project (into your figures folder when you have one) the moment you accept. Images you only use as reference are never uploaded.

The symbols button in the editor toolbar now reads \symb, and Image-to-LaTeX gets its own top-level toolbar button next to it — no need to open the symbol palette first to snip a formula or table from a screenshot.

A new toggle in account settings lets you opt in to the Samskrift compile engine (beta) — our own build service, usually faster than the standard public LaTeX services. It's off by default, and if the beta engine can't take a build, compilation falls back to the standard services automatically.

The beta compile engine reports errors as "file:line: message" instead of the classic "!" format, which our log parser didn't understand — failed builds could show an empty error list and no "Try to fix" button. Both formats are now parsed, so errors get file and line info, gutter markers, and the fix agent back.

The AI edit box (and the docked AI panel) now takes attachments: click the paperclip or paste an image straight into the instruction field. Attach up to three reference files — images, PDFs, or text files like .tex and .md — and the AI actually sees them, so you can highlight a paragraph and say "make it sound more like the attached file" or "make this table look like the image". Images show as small thumbnails, files as chips, each removable with one click.

Just like tables get an "Edit table" pill, every \begin{tikzpicture} line now shows a small "\s Edit figure" pill. Click it and Samskrift selects the entire picture — you don't need to find the matching \end yourself — and opens the AI edit box, so you can simply describe the change: "make the arrows thicker", "add a grid", "rotate the labels". Shown when the AI assistant is enabled in account settings.

Instead of flat per-action estimates, every AI action — rewrites, Try to fix, image-to-LaTeX, symbol drawing — is now charged by the actual work the model did, so a one-line rewrite barely touches your allowance while a big fix costs proportionally more. The daily allowance is now 2,000 AI credits, generous enough that most people will never notice it. Account settings gained a quiet usage meter and a per-action history so you can always see where your allowance went.

Highlight text and the small Rewrite pill appears; clicking it opens a one-line input right next to the selection — type what you want (or pick a preset) and hit Edit. The suggestion no longer replaces your text immediately: it appears as a diff directly in the editor, with removed words struck through and new words in green, plus Accept and Reject buttons (Esc rejects). Deselecting hides the box; the AI also sees surrounding context now, so rewrites match your document's tone and macros better.

Shift- or Cmd-click the row numbers (or the corner box) to select rows, then copy, cut, paste, duplicate or delete them — Cmd+C/X/V work, and copied rows go to the system clipboard as spreadsheet cells, so they paste straight into Excel or Google Sheets (and back). Cmd+X or Cmd+C in a cell with nothing selected cuts or copies the whole cell. Row and column menus gained line controls: toggle a line below any row and vertical lines on either side of any column, on top of the border presets — existing tables with partial rules keep them when reopened. Closing the editor with unsaved changes now asks whether to apply or discard them.

Cmd/Ctrl+Z now undoes any change inside the table editor — typing, pasting, row and column operations, border and caption tweaks — and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z (or Ctrl+Y) redoes it; there are Undo and Redo buttons above the grid too. Copying or cutting cells marks the source range with a dashed outline, spreadsheet-style, so you can always see what will paste — press Escape to dismiss it.

The grid now draws the table's actual rules — booktabs top/mid/bottom lines, full grids, and any per-row or per-column lines — right where they'll appear in the PDF, and you can click any boundary between cells to add or remove a line (the presets still work as before). You can also select a rectangular range of cells by dragging across them, Shift-clicking, or Shift+arrows: copy, cut, paste or clear the whole block with the usual shortcuts. Pasting always highlights the affected cells, and pasting a small block into a larger selection tiles it to fill — handy for copying a row of values all the way down.

The Table button in the toolbar now opens a visual editor: pick a size on a grid, type into cells (Tab and Enter move like in Excel or Google Sheets, including Enter returning to the column where you started the row), paste a whole range straight from Excel or Sheets, choose alignment per column, borders (booktabs, grid, horizontal or none), and set the caption and label. It works both ways — every tabular in your document gets an “Edit table” button that reopens it in the same editor, preserving math, \multicolumn spans, custom column types and partial rules. \usepackage{booktabs} is added automatically when needed, and new tables always land inside the document body even if your cursor was in the preamble or past \end{document}.

Selecting several projects and opening Labels now offers “New label…”, which creates the label and applies it to everything selected in one go. The label dialog also gained a color picker, both when creating and when editing.

Common word forms like Swedish “räknar” were underlined as misspelled because compound-word bookkeeping in the dictionary shadowed the valid inflected form. This affected Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German and Dutch; all are fixed.

Clicking a PDF you uploaded (like a paper you're citing or a figure exported as PDF) now shows the rendered pages in the editor pane, with a page count and a download button — no more binary-file placeholder.

The build-fix report in the project chat is signed Samskrift (still noting who ran it), drops the emojis, and gains a Revert button that restores every file to its state from right before the automatic fix. The pre-revert state is saved to history too, so nothing is ever lost.

Adding a collaborator by email still emails them an invitation by default; a new toggle in the Share dialog lets you skip the email and share the project link yourself instead.

Row actions are now Copy, Rename, Labels, and Archive, with Download ZIP, the new Download PDF (grabs your last compiled PDF without opening the project), and Trash tucked under the “…” menu.

Invitation and account emails now open with the actual \samskrift wordmark — rendered from our Latin Modern type as an image — instead of a text approximation.

Builds now run on Texpress, our dedicated compile service, instead of public third-party servers. It handles images and other binary files directly, and if it's ever unavailable we automatically fall back to the previous services, so compiling keeps working either way.

The invitation names who invited you, the project, and your access level, and links straight to the project — or to sign-up if you don't have an account yet (access is still granted automatically when you sign up with that address). Replies go to the inviter, and re-adding the same address re-sends the invitation. If an address can't receive email, the Share dialog says so, so you can pass the link along yourself.

Sign-up confirmations, password resets, login links, invitations and verification codes now arrive from Samskrift itself, in the app's own typography and colours, instead of a generic default sender. This also unblocks the next step: real collaboration-invite emails.

When a compile fails, the log view now offers “Try to fix” (available when AI features are enabled in account settings). An agent reads the errors and your source files, makes the smallest safe edits, recompiles, and repeats for up to three rounds until the document builds. It posts a summary of everything it changed as a system message in the project chat — watch for the badge on the chat icon — and its edits sync live, so collaborators see the fixes as they happen.

Compiling a one-off PDF from another .tex file no longer overwrites the main document's PDF. Each compiled file keeps its own PDF (and compile log), shown as small tabs above the preview when there's more than one. Switching to a file that has its own PDF shows it automatically, and all kept PDFs survive a reload.

The arrow next to Recompile now offers “Compile ⟨current file⟩” to build a one-off PDF from the file you're editing, plus a quick “Set as main document” shortcut (owners). The main document — what Recompile, ⌘S and auto-compile build — is unchanged unless you switch it.

A new layout button in the top bar switches between split view, editor only and PDF only, opens the compiled PDF in a separate tab, or enters a distraction-free focus mode that hides everything but your document. Keyboard shortcuts match Overleaf: ⌃⌘ + arrows and ⌘⇧M on Mac, Ctrl+Alt + arrows and Ctrl+Shift+M elsewhere. Your layout choice is remembered between sessions.

Suggestions now appear in a steady panel above the drawing box, which stays pinned in place while you draw.

The Draw tab no longer sends your sketch to an AI model. Your strokes are matched locally (in your browser) against Detexify's community dataset — 1,123 symbols, ~40,000 handwritten samples — so results update live while you draw, work offline, and never touch your AI quota. An Ask AI button remains for a second opinion. Draw data © Detexify contributors (ODbL).

A new \smart button in the mobile quick bar opens symbol search and Draw right above the keyboard, with bigger touch targets and a larger drawing canvas. Image-to-Tex now opens as a bottom sheet on mobile — controls within thumb reach — and you can take a photo directly.

The ⋮ tray above the editor now stays open until you toggle it off (it even remembers across reloads), appears centred over the editor, and undo/redo have moved into it.

Typing \begin and picking figure or table now also offers a scaffolded variant with \centering, caption and label — the same block the toolbar buttons insert. The bare environment is still there when that's all you want.

Formatting tools (headings, bold, italic, lists, math, figure, table) now live in a compact "…" tray, Google-Docs style. Symbol search, draw and Image-to-Tex sit behind a new \smart button, and "go to this spot in the PDF" moved to the far right. The AI toolbar button is gone — just highlight text in the editor to rewrite with AI.

Search results are now the actual LaTeX renders (true Computer Modern and package outlines) at realistic sizes — no more lookalike unicode stand-ins. The search bar is tighter, and Image-to-LaTeX is now called Image-to-Tex.

Insert a symbol that needs a package (say \smiley from wasysym) and the \usepackage line is added to your preamble automatically, with a note. If the preamble lives in another file, you get a gentle reminder instead.

The palette now covers astronomy & zodiac, pictograms (wasysym, marvosym, dingbats), IPA phonetics, upright Greek, text accents & European letters, currencies, chess pieces, math functions (\lim, \det, …), extensible arrows, colon relations, and the full negated-relation set from amssymb and stmaryrd. Both keyword and semantic search cover everything — hover any result to see which package it needs.

Descriptive searches ("xor", "chemical equilibrium", "defined as") are matched against precomputed meaning-vectors for the whole catalogue, so results land in a fraction of a second. The catalogue also doubled to ~390 symbols, now covering amssymb, mathtools and other package symbols — hover any result to see which package it needs.

Semantic search in the symbol palette now answers in about a second: backend checks run in parallel, the AI skips its hidden "thinking" step, and replies use a compact format.

The Greek/Operators/Relations/Arrows tabs are gone. Just type what you mean — "not equal", "double integral", "squiggly equals", a command like \sqrt, or even a pasted glyph — and matches appear instantly, ranked by relevance. For fuzzier descriptions (in any language), AI suggestions appear right after the local hits, including symbols beyond the built-in set. Your snippets show up in the same search, Draw sits next to the bar, and Image-to-LaTeX moved from the toolbar into the palette.

We benchmarked our AI models head-to-head on real LaTeX tasks and tuned each feature to the fastest model that passes every quality check. Rewrites now answer in about 1–2 seconds (down from ~10), and image-to-LaTeX in about 3 (down from ~8) — with the same output quality, including keeping your document's \"o-style escapes intact.

The generic sparkle icon is gone — everything AI in the app (rewrite, image to LaTeX, the daily-limit popup) is now marked with a small \s, drawn from the same Latin Modern letterforms as the logo.

The AI features (rewrite, image to LaTeX, draw-a-symbol) now share a generous free allowance of 1000 requests per person per day. If you ever hit it, a popup tells you when it resets (midnight UTC). Everything stays free.

The generated code now appears the moment the AI answers, ready to copy or insert while the test render runs in the background. If it turns out not to compile, the AI regenerates it and reloads the code (Insert and Copy pause briefly while that happens). You can also click your image or the rendered preview to see it enlarged.

The snip tool now test-compiles what the AI generates and shows the rendered result right next to your image. If the code doesn't compile, the AI reads the error log and repairs it automatically (up to two attempts) — and you can type feedback like “make the labels bigger” to iterate until it matches. Compile errors from the backup compile service now point at your real file name too, instead of an internal one.

Recognition now runs on a much faster model and kicks off sooner after you stop sketching. Suggestions show the actual rendered LaTeX symbol instead of a Unicode look-alike, and the Draw tab now sits first in the symbol palette with My snippets right after.

Avatars in the editor header now show your collaborator's actual name (e.g. from their Google account) instead of the first part of their email. Click an avatar to jump straight to where their cursor is in the document — and the initials no longer get text-selected on hover.

Every ship now lands on this page with a timestamp. We often ship several times a day — bookmark it.

Can't remember a command? Open the symbol palette (Ω) and pick Draw: sketch the symbol and Samskrift suggests matching LaTeX commands, with a badge when a package is required. Like Detexify, but powered by a vision AI that reads your actual handwriting.

Every document you open is mirrored into your browser's local storage. If the connection drops you just keep typing — the header shows “Offline — changes saved on this device”, and your edits survive reloads. When you're back online they merge automatically with whatever your collaborators wrote in the meantime, conflict-free, using the same engine that powers live collaboration.

Paste or upload a picture of an equation or a table, and AI transcribes it into LaTeX (or TikZ) for you.

Save any project as a template from the project menu, reuse it under “My templates” when creating projects, or share it with a link.

Our own domain. Old addresses redirect here automatically.

Samskrift now runs an MCP server, so tools like Claude Code can read, edit, and compile your projects — with your permission, via a secure sign-in. Agent edits appear live for collaborators and in version history, marked “via MCP”. Connect with: claude mcp add --transport http samskrift https://samskrift.com/mcp

History now records every single edit, not just snapshots — scrub back through a document and restore any point, without losing anyone's work.

Drop several files at once, rename them before saving, pick a destination folder — and get a clear warning before anything is overwritten.

New name, new logo, new typography — same editor. Samskrift ≈ “writing together”.

Vim mode, import from Overleaf (zip or link), autocomplete for \ref, \cite, \includegraphics and \input, jump between source and PDF with Ctrl/Cmd-J, view links that work without an account, a unified login page, AI “try fix” on compile errors, and abortable compiles.

Rebuilt PDF viewer with steady scrolling on mobile, spell-check, track changes, review comments, project-wide search, visual math preview, and SyncTeX source↔PDF mapping.

First release (as Överlev): a real-time collaborative LaTeX editor — live cursors, shared projects, instant PDF preview. Free.