Unlimited real-time collaboration, a full TeX Live compile stack, complete version history, and inline AI editing. Every feature, every account.
Small loops of the real thing — drawn live in the page, not screenshots.
Live cursors, presence, and instant sync for as many collaborators as you like. Offline edits merge back automatically the moment you reconnect.
Pick a size, type into a spreadsheet-style grid, and get clean booktabs LaTeX out. Editing a value later is just as painless.
Sketch the shape and the command appears instantly. Recognition runs entirely on your device, so it's fast, private, and free.
Comment on any selection, reply, and resolve — plus track changes for edits that need sign-off before they land.
The tedious parts of LaTeX, from table formatting and figure styling to cryptic compile errors, handled in place with every change shown as a diff before it lands.
One click hands the log and your code to an agent that proposes a fix, applied automatically and revertible with one click.
Why rebuild AI tools when your favourite one can come to you? Connect the Samskrift MCP server once, and Claude, ChatGPT, Codex — any MCP-capable agent — can read, edit, and compile your projects straight from the chat you already use. Set it up in two minutes.
All AI tools are free within a generous daily allowance, and you can switch them off entirely in account settings.
Everything included, and what's coming next.
| Collaboration | |
|---|---|
| Real-time editing with live cursors and presence | Included |
| Unlimited collaborators per project | Included |
| Comments, track changes, and a review workflow | Included |
| Project chat with @mentions | Included |
| Read-only view links and edit links | Included |
| Editor | |
| LaTeX autocomplete · refs, citations, environments, graphics | Included |
| Spell-check in 20+ languages · language auto-detected per document | Included |
| Vim keybindings | Included |
| Excel-style visual table editor | Included |
| Symbol palette with draw-to-find search | Included |
| Code folding, command palette, quick file switcher | Included |
| Rename a citation key or label everywhere · press F2 | Included |
| Compilation | |
| pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX on a full TeX Live | Included |
| BibTeX and biblatex, TikZ, beamer, and thousands of packages | Included |
| SyncTeX · jump between source and PDF, both directions | Included |
| Compile errors underlined right in the source | Included |
| No artificial compile timeout | Included |
| History | |
| Full version history with per-file diffs and restore | Included |
| Compare any two points in time, side by side | Included |
| Project-wide activity feed | Included |
| Anywhere | |
| Dedicated mobile editing experience | Included |
| Offline editing · edits merge back automatically on reconnect | Included |
| Import and export any project as a zip | Included |
| MCP server · let AI agents read and edit your projects · Set it up | Included |
| On the way | |
| GitHub, Dropbox and Zotero sync | On the way |
| Public template gallery · personal templates work today | On the way |
Samskrift is a free alternative to Overleaf: import any existing project as a zip, or just paste a link to it, and folders, figures, and bibliographies come across intact. And your full source can be downloaded again at any time, so there is no lock-in.
Create a project, share an edit link, and start typing in the same document, all in under a minute.
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