spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "overleaf",3  "name": "Overleaf",4  "aliases": ["ShareLaTeX", "Overleaf Community Edition", "Overleaf Server Pro"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Overleaf (Digital Science)", "slug": "overleaf", "website": "https://www.overleaf.com" },6  "homepage_url": "https://www.overleaf.com/",7  "docs_url": "https://www.overleaf.com/learn",8  "repo_url": "https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf",9  "pricing_url": "https://www.overleaf.com/user/subscription/plans",10  "license_url": "https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf/blob/main/LICENSE",11  "product_type": "platform",12  "product_status": "active",13  "summary": "Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition",14  "description": "Overleaf is a browser-based LaTeX editor and compiler operated by Digital Science. Users write in a code or visual editor, compile against a hosted TeX Live, and collaborate in real time with comments and track changes; the platform offers a large template gallery, a symbol palette and an AI assistant. Free accounts allow unlimited projects with one collaborator per project and a short document history, while Student, Standard and Pro plans add more collaborators, full history and restore, longer compile timeouts, track changes and integrations with Git, GitHub, Dropbox, Zotero and Mendeley. Group and organizational licences add single sign-on, user administration and, for large buyers, on-premises hosting.\n\nThe server software is published under the AGPL-3.0 as Overleaf Community Edition, installed through the Overleaf Toolkit with Docker. The community image compiles without sandboxing, so the maintainers recommend it only where all users are trusted; the commercial Server Pro edition adds sandboxed compiles, LDAP/SAML single sign-on, administration tools and tracked changes, and comes with support.\n\nOverleaf is the default choice for co-authored LaTeX papers because collaborators need no local TeX installation and journals publish templates there. Limits are the compile-time ceilings on cheaper plans, the fact that large projects compile more slowly than locally, dependence on an internet connection, and the collaborator restrictions of the free tier. Users who want local editing can keep a Git mirror of a project and compile with their own TeX Live.",15  "capabilities": ["Real-time collaborative LaTeX editing in the browser", "Hosted TeX Live compilation with PDF preview", "Rich text (visual) editor alongside code editor", "Track changes, comments and document history", "Git, GitHub, Dropbox, Zotero and Mendeley sync", "Template gallery including journal and thesis templates", "Self-hosted Community Edition (AGPL) and Server Pro", "Group, institutional and on-premises licensing with SSO"],16  "workflows": ["Co-authoring a journal submission from its official template", "Keeping a Git clone of an Overleaf project for local builds", "Running a Community Edition instance for a trusted lab", "Syncing a Zotero library into the project bibliography"],17  "advantages": ["No local TeX installation needed for collaborators", "Open-source server edition for self-hosting", "Widely used journal templates", "Integrates with major reference managers"],18  "limitations": ["Free plan limited to one collaborator and short history", "Compile timeout and speed depend on plan", "Community Edition compiles are not sandboxed", "Requires a network connection; offline editing only via Git"],19  "prerequisites": ["Web browser; Docker host for self-hosting"],20  "audiences": ["Academic co-authors", "Students writing theses", "Institutions providing LaTeX to many users"],21  "alternatives": ["tex-live", "texstudio", "typst", "zotero"],22  "comparison_notes": "TeX Live with TeXstudio gives the same compiler locally without collaboration features; Typst's web app offers comparable real-time collaboration for a different, non-TeX markup. Overleaf's distinguishing assets are the hosted compile service, templates and the AGPL server edition.",23  "categories": [{ "slug": "latex-typesetting", "primary": true }, { "slug": "academic-writing" }],24  "tags": ["latex", "collaboration", "self-hosted", "open-source", "typesetting"],25  "use_cases": ["write-papers", "typeset-documents", "collaborate"],26  "operating_systems": ["web"],27  "execution_modes": ["cloud", "self-hosted"],28  "interfaces": ["web"],29  "deployment_models": ["saas", "on-premises"],30  "integrations": ["Git", "GitHub", "Dropbox", "Zotero", "Mendeley", "TeX Live", "Docker"],31  "data_formats": ["LaTeX", "BibTeX", "PDF", "ZIP"],32  "languages": ["JavaScript", "TeX"],33  "source_model": "open-source",34  "license_spdx": "AGPL-3.0-only",35  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "paid", "enterprise", "academic", "open-source"],36  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",37  "self_hostable": true,38  "sources": [39    { "url": "https://www.overleaf.com/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Overleaf, Online LaTeX Editor", "supports": ["name", "summary"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },40    { "url": "https://www.overleaf.com/user/subscription/plans", "type": "pricing_page", "title": "Plans and Pricing - Overleaf", "supports": ["pricing_model", "capabilities", "limitations", "vendor"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },41    { "url": "https://www.overleaf.com/learn", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Learn LaTeX - Overleaf", "supports": ["docs_url"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },42    { "url": "https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf", "type": "repository", "title": "overleaf/overleaf", "supports": ["self_hostable", "limitations", "description"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },43    { "url": "https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf/blob/main/LICENSE", "type": "license_page", "title": "overleaf/overleaf LICENSE", "supports": ["license_spdx", "source_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }44  ],45  "confidence": "high",46  "uncertainty_note": "Server Pro is proprietary; license_spdx applies to the Community Edition repository. Digital Science ownership is inferred from the plans page footer.",47  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",48  "depth": "deep",49  "editorial_status": "reviewed",50  "visibility": "public",51  "featured": false,52  "author": "batch-E"53}54