About Scissor LaTeX: facts, privacy, logo and screenshots
Scissor LaTeX is a free LaTeX editor and a set of 12 LaTeX tools that run entirely in your browser, made for students and researchers. It is made by Scissor (scissor.studio), which also makes other private tools that run in the browser; the provider is named in the imprint.
In one sentence
Scissor LaTeX is a free LaTeX editor and a set of 12 LaTeX tools that run entirely in your browser, made for students and researchers.
You write LaTeX, see typeset pages as you type, and export PDF, PNG, SVG, HTML or Markdown. There is no sign-up and no account, and your documents stay on your device or in your own Google Drive.
Facts
| What | A LaTeX editor (/app/) and 12 LaTeX tools: equation editor, LaTeX to PNG, SVG, MathML, HTML and Markdown, matrix and table generators, and four BibTeX tools |
| Price | Free, with no subscription, no fee and no paid plan |
| Account | None. Google Drive is optional and uses your own Google sign-in |
| Where documents are processed | In your browser, by engines written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly |
| Typesetting | Its own engine built on Typst, with Latin Modern and New Computer Modern fonts; not TeX |
| Offline | Works offline after your first visit; after each update of the site, open it online once. Some fonts for other writing systems and layouts download the first time a document uses them (details) |
| Templates | General templates and nine look-alike conference layouts for drafting (IEEE, CVPR, ACM sigconf, Springer LNCS, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, arXiv style); not official, and not affiliated with or endorsed by those organisations |
| Languages | The site and the editor in 30 languages; the documentation in English |
| Licence | Proprietary software, free to use. It is built on open source components, listed on the licences page |
| Made by | Scissor (scissor.studio); the provider's name and address are in the imprint |
Facts as of 6 November 2026.
Who makes it
Scissor LaTeX is part of the Scissor family of tools that run in the browser, alongside Scissor, Scissor PDF, Scissor Image, Scissor Text, Scissor Zip, Scissor Audio and Scissor Film. The legal provider is named in the imprint. To reach us, use the contact page.
How privacy works
The website and its engines are downloaded to your browser, and your work is processed there, on your own device. The site has no endpoint for your documents. Projects are kept in your browser's storage until you delete them, or in your own Google Drive if you save them there; Scissor LaTeX can then see only the files it created or you opened with it.
What does reach us: page counts and short error reports without your work, and whatever you choose to send through a feedback, bug-report or contact form. The details are on how it works and in the privacy policy.
What it does not do
Scissor LaTeX is not TeX. It covers the LaTeX that papers, reports and theses usually use, but not every package or document class. It has no real-time co-editing, no tracked changes and no journal templates yet. For those, see the alternatives and the differences from a TeX installation.
Logo and screenshots
You may use the name, the logo and these screenshots to write about Scissor LaTeX or to list it in a directory. Please do not change the logo, do not use it as the logo of your own product or site, and do not suggest that we endorse or sponsor you. The name and logo stay ours; this permission gives no other rights. The screenshots show the editor with a sample document written by us, with made-up data; the Drive button shows the Google Drive icon, a trademark of Google LLC.
- Logo, 512 × 512 PNG: /icon-512.png
- The editor, light theme, 2000 × 1250 JPEG: /shots/editor-light.jpg
- The editor, dark theme, 2000 × 1250 JPEG: /shots/editor-dark.jpg
- The editor on a phone, 780 × 1560 JPEG: light, dark
- Share image, 1200 × 630 PNG: /og/home.png
Suggested short description: "Scissor LaTeX is a free LaTeX editor that runs in your browser: no sign-up, no account, and your documents stay on your device."
Questions and answers
Is Scissor LaTeX open source?
No. Scissor LaTeX is proprietary software that is free to use. It is built on open source components, such as Typst and mitex, which are listed with their licences on the licences page.
How is Scissor LaTeX free?
The typesetting runs on your own device, so we do not run a compile server for it. There is no paid plan.
Where can I report a problem or ask a question?
Use Report a problem in the footer, or the contact page.