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LaTeX Workshop vs Texmaker: catalog facts
LaTeX Workshop	Texmaker
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
Auto build with configurable LaTeX recipes Internal PDF viewer with SyncTeX	Built-in PDF viewer with SyncTeX Structure view and master mode for multi-file documents
Requires Visual Studio Code and a separately installed TeX distribution Latest version needs a recent VS Code release	Requires a separate LaTeX distribution to compile documents Focused on LaTeX only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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