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Overleaf Reviews in May 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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Overleaf Reviews & Ratings

4.2

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Based on 59 ratings & 50 reviews

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User in Higher Education

10/12/19

5 out of 5

Overleaf makes all instead of you, just click and your images and tables will be there!

What do you like best? Overleaf - you can access from wherever as long as you have an internet connection. You don’t need to move or draw a table, count page number or look for special formulas. What do you dislike? The reference or the bibliography is shown in a difficult (tricky) way than in Microsoft. As well if you need to share your file/project with external users-be ready to not an easy work. You can export your file only in pdf format. Would be useful to have it in word doc ...

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User in Research

10/11/19

5 out of 5

simple latex

What do you like best? overleaf is the simplest way to write in latex. It offers many templates for any type of document and a way to write in latex online and in a simple, fast and guided way What do you dislike? there's nothing I don't like about overleaf. it helped me a lot to write my thesis What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? writing in latex is not easy. overleaf greatly simplifies writing documents in latex. it helped me a lot ...

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User in Information Technology and Services

09/21/19

4.5 out of 5

Easily write research papers and thesis using overleaf

What do you like best? - Overleaf is very easy to use and easily create documents and research papers. - I like their collaborative tool. so the team and I easily work together and change documents easily. - Create an account in overleaf is very easy. anyone can easily use overleaf with some basic knowledge. - Compilation of document is fast unlike other LateX editors - Their error is understandable. so I can easily solve the errors and create a document. - Overleaf also ...

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User in Higher Education

08/30/19

4.5 out of 5

Extremely easy to use; only lacking in collaborative ease

What do you like best? Online on-the-go Latex editor; using packages very easy; intuitive interface What do you dislike? The ease of collaborative work. Multiple users editing the same document isnt very trivial. Recommendations to others considering the product: Overleaf is very intuitive. Pros: Your documents are updated online; lots of templates available; great for use across multiple machines Cons: For a very long document, navigating to a section can be cumbersome; ...

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User in Research

08/29/19

5 out of 5

Overleaf is Best LaTeX Editor for advance and beginner

What do you like best? In Today's fast-growing arena Latex is the best markup language. It helps the users for editing documents to markup level. Overleaf is one of the best online LaTex editor. overleaf is a fantastic LaTex editor which offers unique features like bib file generation, default templates, easy image insertion, built-in document viewer, Multi-language spell check, tex Templates. What do you dislike? In browser, it's open only one project in all tab you can not open ...

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Mohammed S

07/26/19

5 out of 5

Best online alternative to Latex software

What do you like best? I have been using overleaf for a while in my research. Overleaf just help me write my papers and represent my data in a very professional way. Unlike using traditional IEEE word format to write papers, overleaf is capable of generating high precision IEEE formatting which in turns save time and effort. The online helps and examples are very useful for beginners. I would like also to mention that multiple users can work and edit documents simultaneously which ...

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Kunal S

05/16/19

5 out of 5

Have been using it extensively, it is awesome

What do you like best? Amazing editor, let's me customize and choose all templates, and is very easy to use for any kind of a user. What do you dislike? Error debugging gets difficult at times. Be more explanatory about errors. Recommendations to others considering the product: Amazing for Reports and beautiful in terms of design representation What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reports for Projects and homeworks for my classes

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Vatsal P

05/12/19

4.5 out of 5

One of the best web applications to work with LaTeX documents

What do you like best? The UI / UX is extremely good and fast. The best thing about Overleaf is how it renders PDF of the resulting LaTeX document right away, as soon as code is saved and compiled. This WYSIWYG interface is very helpful. Besides, it has other fantastic features like uploading documents, projects, working on multiple projects at the same time, making it a complete package. One really nifty feature is how it ignores minor errors and still renders documents, making it easier ...

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User in Higher Education

04/27/19

3.5 out of 5

Easy to use typing software

What do you like best? I like how easy it is to make slides for presentations and the easy with which you and coworkers can edit the same file. What do you dislike? I think the design of the software is not as nice as some others out there, however, sharelatex is very easy to implement. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I mostly use it to make slides for presentations. They look quite professional when using Latex language.

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User in Entertainment

04/22/19

5 out of 5

Excellent online software for writing academic research in Latex

What do you like best? The most important feature of this software is that you will never lose your project, you can have as many projects as you want and save them online in this software and it is available to you from anywhere, from home, library, school, office, etc. It is also free. It is very easy to use and learn its additional features. You can share your file online with your group members, you can all edit the document at the same time online. It has a chat window to ...

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