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Overleaf's fine, but lack of offline editing, and more crucially, trusting my main working copy to live only on somebody else's computer, is a bit of a non-starter for me.

Plus, call me an idealist, but it feels like a huge step back when a device requires a paid web service to do something that's completely free on a real computer. I don't know that "pay somebody else" should be hailed as the solution to "good software doesn't work on this device".




You made a good point about offline editing but Overleaf's main reason for existing is precisely TeX software not being so good.


The collaboration and sync tools are very useful, including performant editing by multiple authors at once.


Overleaf has excellent offline support through its git interface (or Dropbox, if you prefer).




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