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LaTeX Workshop vs VimTeX: catalog facts
LaTeX Workshop	VimTeX
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Command line
Auto build with configurable LaTeX recipes Internal PDF viewer with SyncTeX	Works in both Vim and Neovim Compilation through latexmk with inverse search
Requires Visual Studio Code and a separately installed TeX distribution Latest version needs a recent VS Code release	Requires recent Vim or Neovim versions Depends on external tools such as latexmk
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MIT
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 2, 2026

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