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TeXstudio - A LaTeX editor

# Welcome to TeXstudio

TeXstudio is an integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. Therefore TeXstudio has numerous features like syntax-highlighting, integrated viewer, reference checking, and various assistants. For more details see the features.

TeXstudio is open-source and is available for all major operating systems.

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TeXstudio 4.9.0 (Windows-Installer,x86\_64) Download now
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TeXstudio 4.9.0 (OSX zip)
for macOS **12.+** or higher Download now
TeXstudio 4.9.0 (OSX M1 zip)
for macOS **12.+** or higher

# News

2025-11-07

A new release **TeXstudio 4.9.0** is available,
see changelog.This release offers collaborative editing with the help of teamtype (currently available on OSX and linux).

2025-09-12

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.9** is available,
see changelog.This release fixes some bugs and offers text selection on pdfs.

2025-07-11

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.8** is available,
see changelog.This is the first release to offer win/arm64 builds.

2025-04-25

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.7** is available,
see changelog.Linux PPA uses Qt6 from now on and it will work for Ubuntu 23.10 and newer only.

2025-02-07

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.6** is available,
see changelog.

2025-01-09

Windows Defender currently classifies a base library for txs as virus. All indications point to a false positive. To run txs, defender needs to be advised to ignore txs and its libraries, see also issue

2024-12-13

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 4.8.5** is available,
see changelog.

2024-09-27

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 4.8.4** is available,
see changelog.

2024-09-20

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.3** is available,
see changelog. Main new feature is that windows installer is code signed and should give less warnings when installing.

2024-08-28

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.2** is available,
see changelog.

2024-06-07

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.1** is available,
see changelog.

2024-05-11

A new release **TeXstudio 4.8.0** is available,
see changelog.

2024-03-01

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 4.7.3** is available,
see changelog.It offers a OSX 14 M1 build for the first time.

2023-12-24

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 4.7.2** is available,
see changelog.

2023-12-05

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 4.7.1** is available,
see changelog. OSX users reported mal-function of txs on some systems. This version uses Qt 6.6.0 again which seems to work.

2023-12-02

A new release **TeXstudio 4.7.0** is available,
see changelog

2023-08-11

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 4.6.3** is available,
see changelog

2023-07-30

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 4.6.2** is available,
see changelog. Crashes with large documents have been reported.
This version introduces file caching for reopening included files. This speeds up loading but disables preview and search in cached documents, see also manual

2023-07-30

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 4.6.1** is available,
see changelog. The path for caching data was set to a wrong location.
This version introduces file caching for reopening included files. This speeds up loading but disables preview and search in cached documents, see also manual

2023-07-28

A new release **TeXstudio 4.6.0** is available,
see changelog
This version introduces file caching for reopening included files. THis speeds up loading but disables preview and search in cached documents, see also manual

2023-04-15

A new release **TeXstudio 4.5.2** is available,
see changelog

2023-02-04

A new release **TeXstudio 4.5.1** is available,
see changelog

2022-11-27

A new release **TeXstudio 4.4.1** is available,
see changelog

2022-11-19

A new release **TeXstudio 4.4.0** is available. It provides an overhauled manual,a new icon theme and no Qt5 build on windows among others,
see changelog

2022-08-26

A new release **TeXstudio 4.3.1** is available,
see changelog

2022-08-07

A new release **TeXstudio 4.3.0** is available,
see changelog

2022-04-17

A new release **TeXstudio 4.2.3** is available. Most notable uses Qt6.3 on windows which fixes the line in the pdf magnifier with on some windows set-ups. Bugfixes,
see changelog

2022-02-20

A new release **TeXstudio 4.2.2** is available. Bugfixes,
see changelog

2022-01-27

A new release **TeXstudio 4.2.1** is available. Bugfixes,
see changelog

2022-01-8

A new release **TeXstudio 4.2.0** is available. Bugfixes,
see changelog

2021-12-7

A new release **TeXstudio 4.1.2** is available. It should fix session restore and ctrl+letter shortcuts on OSX.
see changelog

2021-11-20

A new release **TeXstudio 4.1.1** is available. It should fix issue with chinese character input.
see changelog

2021-11-20

A new release **TeXstudio 4.1.0** is available. It should fix issue with chinese character input.
see changelog

2021-11-6

A new release **TeXstudio 4.0.4** is available. It should fix a crash on OSX(qt6).
see changelog

2021-10-30

A new release **TeXstudio 4.0.3** is available. It should fix crashes which occur on some systems.
see changelog

2021-10-22

A new release **TeXstudio 4.0.2** is available. This bugfix release which contains Qt6.2 on windows and osx. On OSX this should fix problems with the cursor.
see changelog

2021-10-11

A new release **TeXstudio 4.0.1** is available. This bugfix release which contains Qt6.2 on windows and osx. On OSX this should fix entering accented characters.
see changelog

2021-09-25

A new release **TeXstudio 4.0.0** is available. This version offers Qt6 support which should improve hidpi handling.
see changelog

2021-05-13

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.1.2** is available.
see changelog

2021-02-22

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.1.1** is available.Mainly it fixes crashes loading included files.
see changelog

2021-02-17

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.1.0** is available.Mainly changing the GUI language has been fixed. Furthermore a global TOC is available besides the structure view. It is work in progress and not (yet) automatically updated. Please give feedback.
see changelog

2021-02-14

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.0.5** is available.
see changelog

2021-01-02

Happy new year! A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.0.4** is available. It just fixes the configuration of the pdf toolbar size.
see changelog

2020-12-29

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.0.3** is available. No changes, just a build fix for OSX.
see changelog

2020-12-28

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.0.2** is available.
see changelog

2020-09-01

A new bugfix release **TeXstudio 3.0.1** is available.
see changelog

2020-08-25

A new release **TeXstudio 3.0.0** is available.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2020-01-18

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 2.12.22** is available.
It fixes garbled symbols in OSX, a crash when changing magic language comment, and pdf search path handling.
**This is the last release supporting Qt4.**
LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2020-01-13

A bug fix release **TeXstudio 2.12.20** is available.
It fixes a problem with replacing when search highlight is activated.
**This is the last release supporting Qt4.**
LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2019-12-26

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.18** is available.
This is mainly a bug fix release. Most notably change is better support of regexp in search (Qt5 version only).
**This is the last release supporting Qt4.**
LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2019-05-19

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.16** is available.
This is mainly a bug fix release. Most notably change is flicker-free update of pdf.
LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2018-11-30

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.14** is available. (see changelog)
This is a bug fix release for fixing that GUI language could not be changed to all available languages via GUI.
LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2018-11-25

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.12** is available. (see changelog)
LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2018-07-06

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.10** is available.
LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2018-02-03

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.8** is available.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version. LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex. For Ubuntu, a ppa is available.

2018-02-03

Active development has been moved to github.com. We are happy to accept pull-requests and any other help.

2017-07-25

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.6** is available.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version. LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2017-03-27

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.4** is available.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version. LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2017-01-24

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.2** is available.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version. LanguageTool >=3.6 is only supported with Qt5.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2017-01-07

The new release **TeXstudio 2.12.0** is available.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2016-09-28

The new release **TeXstudio 2.11.2** is available.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2016-05-29

The new release **TeXstudio 2.11.0** is available.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2016-02-17

There are community-provided Linux AppImages available for TeXstudio.

2016-01-20

The new release **TeXstudio 2.10.8** is available. This is a bugfix release.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2016-01-09

The new release **TeXstudio 2.10.6** is available. This is a bugfix release.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2015-10-25

The new release **TeXstudio 2.10.4** is available. This is a bugfix release.
For Ubuntu 14.04, use the Qt4 Version.
Thanks to all translators on transifex.

2015-10-02

TeXstudio has been chosen as sourceforge Project of the Month.

2017-12-21

We have migrated our version control system from Mercurial to git. The mercurial repository remains, but won't be updated any longer. From now on, you can obtain the latest source code from our git repository on github.com.

2015-09-16

The new release **TeXstudio 2.10.2** is available. This is a bugfix release.

2015-09-10

The new release **TeXstudio 2.10.0** is available. Linux builds are only provided for distributions which allow Qt5 builds. This mainly affects Centos 6, Ubuntu 12.04 and OpenSuse 11.3.

2015-09-10

TeXstudio uses the service of Transifex to reduce difficulties to translate texstudio in your mother tongue. Please participate to increase the number of tranlations.

2015-08-16

TeXstudio is one of the candidates for the SourceForge project of the month. Vote now!

2015-06-29

TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the Featured Projects of the week on sourceforge.net

2015-03-24

The new release **TeXstudio 2.9.4** is available. This is a bug fix release mainly for OSX and Linux. The shortcuts for moving the cursor get messed up if you use txs 2.9.2 with a non-english language and change something in the options. To remedy the problem, you need to edit .config/texstudio/texstudio.ini and delete the keys "Editor%20Key%20Mapping%20New". Sorry for the inconvenience.

2015-03-22

The new release **TeXstudio 2.9.2** is available.

2015-03-06

The new release **TeXstudio 2.9.0** is available.

2015-02-17

There are preview builds of the upcoming 2.8.10 release available for Windows and Linux (tagged as 2.8.9). It also continues to be a Featured Project this week.

2015-02-10

TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the Featured Projects of the week on sourceforge.net

2014-12-07

TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the Featured Projects of the week on sourceforge.net

2014-12-04

The new release **TeXstudio 2.8.8** is available.

2014-10-26

The new release **TeXstudio 2.8.6** is available.

2014-09-08

The new release **TeXstudio 2.8.4** is available.

2014-07-25

The new release **TeXstudio 2.8.2** is available.

2014-06-21

The new release **TeXstudio 2.8.0** is available.

2014-03-16

The new release **TeXstudio 2.7.0** is available.

2014-02-10

TeXstudio has been chosen as one of the Featured Projects of the week on sourceforge.net

2013-11-02

The new release **TeXstudio 2.6.6** is available to fix some bugs, e.g. the home/end keys.

2013-10-20

The new release **TeXstudio 2.6.4** is available. It fixes bugs and adds some features.

2013-08-28

We have migrated our version control system from SVN to Mercurial. The SVN repository remains, but won't be updated any longer. From now on, you can obtain the latest source code from our Mercurial repository.

2013-08-17

TeXstudio has been elected as SourceForge Project of the Month. You can read an interview there.

2013-07-14

The new bug fix release **TeXstudio 2.6.2** is available.

2013-06-15

The new release **TeXstudio 2.6.0** is available.

2013-04-03

TeXstudio was one of the candidates for the SourceForge Project of the Month.

2013-03-18

TeXstudio is one of the Featured Projects of the week on sourceforge.net, again :)

2013-02-04

TeXstudio has now been downloaded more than 200 000 times from sourceforge!

2013-01-08

The new bug fix release **TeXstudio 2.5.2** is available.

2012-11-22

The new release **TeXstudio 2.5.1** is available.

2012-11-13

TeXstudio is one of the Featured Projects of the week on sourceforge.net

2012-10-17

The new release **TeXstudio 2.5** is available.

2012-09-02

The new release **TeXstudio 2.4** is available.

2012-03-27

TeXstudio got a **new website design**.

2012-02-06

The new release **TeXstudio 2.3** is available.

2011-07-20

The new release **TeXstudio 2.2** is available.

2011-06-15

TexMakerX is now called **TeXstudio**.

2011-03-19

The new release **TexMakerX 2.1** is available
which adds again new features and fixes some bugs.

2010-11-29

The new release **TexMakerX 2.0** is available
which adds new features and fixes some bugs.

2010-07-20

The new release **TexMakerX 1.9.9a** is available
which adds new features and fixes some bugs.

2010-05-06

The new release **TexMakerX 1.9.9** is available
which adds new features and fixes some bugs.

2009-11-25

The new release **TexMakerX 1.9.3** is available
and fixes several bugs.
Also the old releases have been downloaded ten thousand times so far.

2009-10-26

The new release **TexMakerX 1.9.** is available
which adds several new features and fixes some bugs.

2009-05-06

The second release **TexMakerX 1.8.1** is available
which fixes several bugs and add some new features.

2009-04-03

**TexMakerX 1.8** has now been
downloaded one thousand times.

2009-02-22

The first release **TexMakerX 1.8** is finished.

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# Features
### Comfortable Editing

- Multi-Cursors
- Auto completion
- More than 1000 mathematical symbols
- Bookmarks
- Link overlay
- Assistants for images, tables, formulas, ...
- Drag & drop support for images
- Table-formatting

Edit multiple positions at the same time. Vertical blocks can even be copied and pasted.

Suggests possible LaTeX commands as you type. There is a tooltip help explaining the command.

Completion works also for references and bibliography entries.

Quick access to more than 1000 mathematical symbols.

Use bookmarks too keep references to important places in your text and to navigate there quickly.

Tooltips show a preview of the code position.

Filenames, references and citations turn into links when moving the mouse over them while holding <Ctrl>.

Also here, tooltips show a preview of the code position.

Generate blocks of code using assistants without the need for detailed LaTeX knowledge.

When you drag an image on the editor the image assistant opens. From there it's just one more click to have the code for the image inclusion. Of course, we try to make the paths relative. This also works with multiple images.

You can copy / paste / insert new table columns with a single click.

The table-autoformatter aligns the table code.

### Keep The Overview


Inline Checking

- Structure view
- Code folding
- Advanced syntax highlighting
- Interactive spellchecker
- Interactive grammar checker
- Interactive reference checker
- Clear display of LaTeX errors and warnings (in the editor and as a list)

### Advanced build system


Error Highlighting

- Built-in support for various LaTeX compilers, index, bibliography and glossary tools, Latexmk, and many more
- Automatic detection of the need for multiple LaTeX runs
- Run any program you like
- Completely customizable for the creation of the complete document

### View The Result

- Integrated PDF viewer with (almost) word-level syncing
- Live-updating inline preview for formulas and code segments
- Tooltip preview for included images

### Easy Setup

- Installers or packages available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
- Portable USB version available
- Automatic detection of MikTeX, TeX Live, Ghostscript and Standardlatex
- SVN support

You can find more details in the user manual or in the Git Changelog.

Feel free to share your ideas on possible future improvements of TeXstudio.

# Download

Windows

On win11, visual studio runtime is required. See here how to install that.

**Code signing policy**: Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation. Code signing is approved by Jan Sundermeyer. This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it (e.g. AI chat).

Platform

Version

Type

How to install

10/11 (x86,64 bit,Qt6)

4.9.0

Installer

download and double click on the installer exe

10/11 (x86,64 bit,Qt6)

4.9.0

Portable (.zip)

download and unzip the zip

11 (Arm,64 bit,Qt6)

4.9.0

Installer

download and double click on the installer exe

11 (Arm,64 bit,Qt6)

4.9.0

Portable (.zip)

download and unzip the zip

7/8/10 (32 bit)

2.12.22.

see github releases

Linux

We recommend that you first try to install TeXstudio from the repository of your distribution. Only if TeXstudio is not available there, use the following pre-packaged versions.

For Ubuntu, a PPA is available: PPA

Furthermore, an app-image is available which can be run on any platform: appImage (). Just make the file executable and run it.

Builds for other architectures (ARM, PPC) can be found directly on the OpenSUSE build service: OBS

Gentoo Linux

Packages for Gentoo Linux built are by the Gentoo community. They are available from the official package repository.

Linux AppImage

AppImages are binaries that are packaged with all their dependencies and should thus run on any Linux desktop system.

Download TeXstudio AppImage ()

Mac OS X

Platform

Version

Type

Size

How to install

12.+

4.9.0

zip

42.7 MB

download, and start it.
**Please note:** Because we do not have an Apple Developer Account, OS X may complain about an unidentified developer and deny opening TXS. In that case, open the context menu on the TXS icon (Ctrl + Click) and select open.

12.+ (M1)

4.9.0

zip

42.7 MB

download, and start it.
**Please note:** Because we do not have an Apple Developer Account, OS X may complain about an unidentified developer and deny opening TXS. In that case, open the context menu on the TXS icon (Ctrl + Click) and select open.

10.x

There is no release for macOS 10.x, but you can compile it from source or using homebrew.

Source Code

latest

Git repository

see the wiki

4.9.0

source tarball

see the wiki

### Development Snapshots and Release Candidates

Since moving to Github, we are using automated build farms to provide build snapshots from nearly every commit. This allows automatic testing to avoid regressions as well as checking that the commits are compatible on all major platforms (Qt5, Qt4, without poppler, OSX and Windows).

You can obtain **binary snapshots** from github. Look for "artifacts" in the latest build. Ubuntu snapshots are provided via ppa:sunderme/texstudio-daily.

If you are interested to be notified of the most recent changes in development snapshots, you can set up the update notification in TeXstudio accordingly (Options → General → Update → Update Level).

### Older Versions

Older versions can be found on our SourceForge site.

# Participate

As an open-source project, TeXstudio strongly benefits from an active community.

## Use and spread the word

The easiest way to help with the development of TeXstudio is to use it! Furthermore, if you like TeXstudio, tell all your friends and colleagues about it.

In particular, we are looking for people who want to try the most recent features before they are officially released. If you are interested download and subscribe to release candidates and development snapshots.

## Give Feedback

User feedback is highly welcome. Depending on the type of feedback you may use different channels to communicate.

- Feature requests, bug reports, and questions can be placed in the issue tracker. Please set a label whether this is a feature request/enhancement, a question, or a bug report. In case of a bug report, please state the version of texstudio and operation system and a description which allows us to reproduce the issue on another computer.

## Contribute

You do not necessarily have to be a programmer to help and make TeXstudio even better. There are many ways to contribute.

- Write cwl-files for your favorite package.
- Translate TeXstudio into a new language or update an existing translation.
- Design icons.
- Help on improving our website.
- Update or extend the user manual or the wiki.
- Write tutorials or create screencasts.
- Package TeXstudio for your favorite distribution or platform.
- TeXstudio is written in C++/Qt. Programmers are welcome to implement new features or fix bugs. Code development takes place on Github. Pull-requests, direct patches or changed files are welcome.

It is a good idea to announce your plans on the texstudio issue list. So everybody knows what's going on around TeXstudio and there is no duplicate work. For questions about how you can contribute, contact one of the developers.

# About this editor

TeXstudio has been forked from Texmaker in 2009, because of the non-open development process of Texmaker and due to different philosophies concerning configurability and features. Originally, it was called TeXmakerX because it started off as a small set of extensions to Texmaker with the hope that they would get integrated into Texmaker someday. While at some points you can still see that TeXstudio originates from Texmaker, significant changes in features and the code base have made it to a fully independent program.

TeXstudio runs on Windows, Unix/Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. It is licensed under the GPL v2. Being open-source, you are free to use and to modify it as you like.

### Maintainer:

Benito van der Zander
benito \[ΑΤ symbol\] benibela.de (please mention "texstudio" in the subject, if you write a mail)
http://www.benibela.de/

### TeXstudio Authors:

Benito van der Zander, Jan Sundermeyer, Daniel Braun, Tim Hoffmann

### Thanks to

Contributers: Frédéric Devernay, Denis Bitouzé, Jean-Côme Charpentier, Luis Silvestre, Enrico Vittorini, Aleksandr Zolotarev, David Sichau, Grigory Mozhaev, mattgk, A. Weder, Pavel Fric, András Somogyi, István Blahota, Edson Henriques, Grant McLean, Tom Jampen, Kostas Oikinimou, Lion Guillaume, ranks.nl, AI Corleone, Diego Andrés Jarrín, Matthias Pospiech, Zulkifli Hidayat, Christian Spieß, Robert Diaz, Kirill Müller, Atsushi Nakajima, Yuriy Kolerov, Victor Kozyakin, Mattia Meneguzzo, Andriy Bandura, Carlos Eduardo Valencia Urbina, Koutheir Attouchi, Stefan Kraus, Bjoern Menke, Charles Brunet, François Gannaz, Marek Kurdej, Paulo Silva, Thiago de Melo, YoungFrog, Klaus Schneider-Zapp, Jakob Nixdorf, Thomas Leitz, Quoc Ho. (Contact us if you are missing or don't want to be mentioned.)

for hosting TeXstudio.

And to all open-source projects from which TeXstudio uses code or that inspired features of TeXstudio.

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