# Overleaf Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra > With the help of Capterra, learn about Overleaf Software - reviews, pricing plans, popular comparisons to other Document Generation products and more. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/229381/Overleaf --- # Overleaf Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons Last updated on March 13, 2026 Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. Independent research methodology Capterra’s researchers use a mix of verified reviews, independent research and objective methodologies to bring you selection and ranking information you can trust. While we may earn a referral fee when you visit a provider through our links or speak to an advisor, this has no influence on our research or methodology. 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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Integrations](#integrations)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Overleaf ## What is Overleaf? Overleaf is a collaborative LaTeX editor that allows users to write, edit and publish academic and scientific documents in real-time. ## What is Overleaf used for? [Document Generation](https://www.capterra.com/document-generation-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 35 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive 97% Neutral 0% Negative 3% Starting price $10 Flat Rate, Per Month Free trial not available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... 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[4.7 (4,187)](https://www.capterra.com/p/251329/Adobe-Acrobat-DC/reviews/) Starting Price $10 Flat Rate, Per Month Starting Price $19.99 Per User, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.6 (35) Ease Of Use 4.6 (2,711) Value For Money 4.6 (25) Value For Money 4.3 (2,093) Customer Service 4.3 (22) Customer Service 4.3 (1,861) ## Overleaf alternatives [Microsoft Word](https://www.capterra.com/p/227146/Microsoft-Word/) [4.7 (2,802)](https://www.capterra.com/p/227146/Microsoft-Word/reviews/) Starting price $9.99 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/227146/Microsoft-Word/) Highest Rated [Google Workspace](https://www.capterra.com/p/247901/Google-Workspace/) [4.7 (17,532)](https://www.capterra.com/p/247901/Google-Workspace/reviews/) Starting price $7.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 96% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/247901/Google-Workspace/) [Pdftools](https://www.capterra.com/p/10001440/pdftools/) [4.4 (7)](https://www.capterra.com/p/10001440/pdftools/#reviews) Starting price $150.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/10001440/pdftools/) [iLovePDF](https://www.capterra.com/p/173963/iLovePDF/) [4.7 (1,756)](https://www.capterra.com/p/173963/iLovePDF/reviews/) Starting price $9.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 97% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [Learn More](https://www.capterra.com/p/173963/iLovePDF/) [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/229381/Overleaf/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Templates 4.6 (25) 72.00% of 25 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Sample files or documents that could be customized as needed or used as is Collaboration Tools 4.3 (20) 75.00% of 20 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together Text Editing 4.9 (16) 75.00% of 16 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Edit text as needed Access Controls/Permissions 4.8 (13) 53.85% of 13 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Content Management 4.4 (5) 60.00% of 5 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving Document Management 4.6 (5) 40.00% of 5 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location Overleaf 11 features Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems Manage the process of evaluating documents or requests submitted for approval Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements Custom forms to streamline repetitious aspects of a document Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location Customizable sample documents that contain placeholder text or a standard layout that can be repeated for each new file Sample files or documents that could be customized as needed or used as is Edit text as needed Track revisions and updates made to files and navigate between different versions Features 4.5 (35) 4.5 Based on 35 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.6 (25) Free Version [View pricing plan details](https://www.capterra.com/p/229381/Overleaf/pricing/) Basic $10.00 Flat Rate,Per Month Value for money 4.6 (25) 4.6 Based on 25 reviews ## Integrations [ Dropbox Business](https://www.capterra.com/p/143068/Dropbox-Business/)[ GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/) ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.3 (22) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.3 (22) 4.3 Based on 22 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.6 Based on 35 reviews Filter by rating 5(24) 4(10) 3(0) 2(0) 1(1) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent UB Uwe B. Professor Education Management ### "It is far too expensive for what it offers." 1.0 Overall Rating 1.0 1.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 1.0 1.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 1/10 September 17, 2025 \* Online LaTeX Overleaf’s LaTeX features are impressive. You can choose among various TeX Live engines, including the 2023 version used by ArXiv. There are quirks—for instance with \*xr-hyper\* —but the support team provided a \*latexmkrc\* file that resolved the issue. On this front I would award 10 out of 10. It is ideal for casual users who prefer not to install LaTeX locally and want documents in the cloud. That said, today’s PCs have ample storage and fast connections, so installing LaTeX and a capable editor is hardly an ordeal. \* Editor Overleaf offers two editors. The visual one is decent, giving a rough preview of the final result. The source editor, however, is poor—especially compared with Emacs+AUCTeX. Inserting environments with automatic labels is almost nonexistent, which makes writing longer documents cumbersome. Here I would give 4 out of 10. \* Collaboration This is where I expected Overleaf to excel, and where it disappointed most. There are no notifications of changes. Share a document, and when your collaborator edits it, you will not know unless you check manually. Support did not answer my query on this point. Since I have better things to do than constantly refresh Overleaf, this alone rules it out for serious collaboration. The paid Standard version offers GitHub integration, which partly mitigates the notification problem, though only clumsily. Even the tracking feature in the paid standard version is weak, the professional version is supposed to be better, but at €46 per month, unappealing. \*\* As for GitHub integration: - Overleaf supports Git but not Mercurial (though \*hg-git\* works well enough). - Branches are not supported; inconvenient, but survivable. - Private repositories are allowed, which is a plus. - Access is smooth. \*\* Notifications, However, remain unsolved. When you turn on watching for your GitHub repository, you receive email notifications if someone with write access pushes. You will not, however, be notified when you push yourself. With some additional configuration—by placing a script in =$yourrepository/.github/workflows/push-notify.yml= and adjusting the settings—you can ensure that every push, whether by the owner or a collaborator, generates notifications to a defined list of users. This seems a solution to the problem, but in practice it is not. \*\* No change of commiting author possible Yet your Overleaf collaborators can push to your github repository but they \*cannot change the author\* of a commit, even though Git and Mercurial explicitly allow this. Again, the support team did not reply to my request. To be clear: if it were possible to commit under another author and push, git’s built-in change tracking would suffice, since each commit carries its author. Without this, meaningful tracking is almost impossible. \* Verdict \*\* Scientific collaboration Overleaf is unsuitable for serious collaboration: Because 1. no notifications; 2. minimal change tracking; 3. GitHub integration missing essential features. While better tracking may indeed be tricky to implement, I fail to see why Overleaf cannot add the option to push to GitHub under a different user. That would be straightforward. It would also address the notification problem—at least for those prepared to tinker with GitHub—and an email-based alert system hardly seems beyond reach. \*\* Teaching and sharing short documents It might be useful for teaching, where several lectures want to share short documents. \* Alternatives As for alternatives: some people use Dropbox, but that offers no tracking and no safeguards against conflicting edits. For me the best—and free—solution remains: + a proper local TeX Live installation, with the editor of one’s choice; + a version-control system such as Git or Mercurial (I find Mercurial’s branching model easier than Git’s); + a private repository on GitHub, GitLab or Helix. Users need only learn the basics—clone, commit, push, pull/fetch and perhaps merge. Decent graphical front-ends exist, such as SourceTree (Windows/macOS) or TortoiseHg (Linux). The drawback is that at least one collaborator must have a solid grasp of Git or Mercurial to resolve conflicts. Most scientists, especially mathematicians, work conservatively, often in pairs or trios, and follow sequential editing, which largely avoids clashes, but how they track changes remains mysterious to me. Pros In brief: its online LaTeX features are excellent. There are quirks—for instance with \*xr-hyper\* —but the support team provided a \*latexmkrc\* file that resolved the issue. On this front I would award 10 out of 10. It is ideal for casual users who prefer not to install LaTeX locally and want documents in the cloud. Cons Its source editor mediocre, and its collaboration tools barely implemented. At €22 a month, it is far too expensive for what it offers. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RC Rodel C R. Journal Editor Hospital & Health Care ### "Simplifies submissions and revisions, with change tracking to everyone." 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 September 5, 2025 Revisions came together more quickly because comments, diffs, and built‑out PDFs existed side by side, eliminating back‑and‑forth and keeping figures and tables in sync. Pros Live preview and track changes keep typography in its place and edits repeatable, while visual editor enables non‑LaTeX collaborators to inspect without fighting markup. Cons More sophisticated tracking and history can be had at paid levels, and email invitations or roles must be configured carefully in multi‑journal teams. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SK Saad K. PhD Candidate Higher Education ### "Great product for document preparation. Highly recommended" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 June 5, 2025 Overall great experience for small documents/research articles. However, when the size of the document becomes large, we have to buy the product which can be costly. Pros It is a great product to write scientific papers and provides all the power of LATEX combined with cloud features where I don't have to worry about project management. Cons The features are a bit costly. They should have a feature for students for unlimited use. If compiling large document in free version, using overleaf can be a pain. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. VP vincent p. Inspector Education Management ### "LaTeX anywhere but not with so many collaborators anymore" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 1.0 1.0 Likelihood to Recommend 5/10 January 4, 2025 It has been a great experience for years, I can find and compile my LaTeX files where ever I am. Pros Online live LaTeX compilation and collaborative work. Cons The latest conditions of the free offer limit the number of collaborations (2 editors) Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. PK Pradeep K. Assistant Professor Higher Education ### "A help for the publishers" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 January 3, 2025 My overall experience has been a mix as it was a very helpful tool in the past but with recent updates it has made me feel somewhat unsatisfied. Pros The ease of working on projects together with your peers and the free version of it. Cons Overleaf stalls for larger documents and has over a period of time somewhat degraded in performance. Switched from [Adobe Acrobat](https://www.capterra.com/p/251329/Adobe-Acrobat-DC/) [Foxit PDF Editor](https://www.capterra.com/p/249044/Foxit-PDF-Editor/) To make collaboration easier and have an environment where different users can contribute simultaneously safely. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. AU Anonymous User Analytic Scientist Computer Software ### "Convenient online latex tool" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 December 26, 2024 I have a very good experience with Overleaf which is free and convenient to use. It can be accessed whenever I have internet access. The project organization is really clear and neat. Overleaf also offers templates which are very helpful. The free plan allows one collaborator per project which is okay for most of my projects. Pros It can be easily accessed online anywhere. Cons It is not completely clear which tex script is compiled when there are more than one tex script. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. LS Leila S. Research Scientist Higher Education ### "helps with LateX" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 September 9, 2024 Pros Having a template helps to prepare a large file which even if the file is large it won't crash Cons It is harder to track the changes between revisions made by different collaborators Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. BS Boryana S. Propositions Manager Financial Services ### "Powerful tool, not exactly intuitive " 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 January 23, 2024 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. Switched from [Microsoft Word](https://www.capterra.com/p/227146/Microsoft-Word/) For academic writing and use of good referencing editor. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. UK Ujwal K. Data Programmer Marketing and Advertising ### "The Best Resume Builder in the market" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 3.0 3.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 August 1, 2023 I have been using Overleaf for 5 years now and it is the best tool to upgrade your resume to your liking without paying any subscription. Also, once you understand the interface of the website, I becomes easy to build a resume from start. Pros It has a huge set of professional templates that can be customized to our requirements. I also have many features to customize the document to our liking. The best part about Overleaf is that it is free to use. Cons Customizing the resume on Overleaf requires one to deal with the Tex file code which can be extremely difficult and time-consuming for creating a basic resume. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. ZA Zahra A. Electrical Engineer Higher Education ### "Overleaf is an excelent for preparing reports, papers, assignements, and online collaboration" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 3.0 3.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 February 22, 2023 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. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/229381/Overleaf/reviews/) ## Top-rated software of 2026 ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox. 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