Scribe

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Scribe is a free desktop editor for LaTeX papers, theses and notes, with the Python behind them in the same project. Figures and numbers in the PDF come straight from the notebooks, everything compiles on your own computer, and there is no account to make.

• Notebooks in the paper. \nbfig and \nbval bring a notebook's figures and measured values into the LaTeX, rerun when the code changes.
• A LaTeX editor that knows the paper. Completion, hover previews, writing checks with fixes, snippets, an equation editor, tables as a grid, SyncTeX both ways.
• TikZ drawn and written. The picture beside its source, with nodes dragged and shapes drawn on a grid; every change is an edit to the TikZ.
• An assistant with your own model. Claude, GPT, Gemini or a local model through Ollama, with your key kept in the system keychain.
• Track changes and comments in the source with the changes package, latexdiff revisions, and a letter to the reviewers.
• Notes, reading and revision cards. Markdown notes with maths, highlights from the papers you cite, spaced repetition.

For macOS, Windows and Linux, under the MIT licence.

• Scribe: the app, a Tauri 2 desktop editor with a TypeScript front end and a Rust back end. Releases and issues live here.

Bug reports and ideas go in the issues. To change something yourself, fork Scribe, run it with npm install && npm run tauri dev, and send a pull request; a template, a theme or a writing check makes a good first one. A star on the repository helps other people find it.