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\title{Overleaf vs Authorea}


 \author{\href{https://www.authorea.com/users/77723}{Authorea Help}}


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\section*{Deciding between Overleaf and Authorea? Choosing the right
editor for your LaTeX manuscript is simple. Here are some key
comparisons to help you
decide.~}

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\section*{1. Collaborating with non-LaTeX
users}

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\textbf{tl;dr~}\emph{Overleaf is for LaTeX pros while Authorea is for
all researchers}

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If you are reading this, you probably know that LaTeX is a typesetting
system ideal for scientific papers -- ~but less than ideal for
collaborating online with coauthors. Overleaf (formerly WriteLaTeX)
brings the LaTeX desktop experience to the web. You compose LaTeX code
in one window pane and press compile, then generate a PDF in a separate
pane. This is familiar to LaTeX writers
(\href{https://www.authorea.com/users/3/articles/107393/_show_article}{a
small percentage of the scholarly community}), but is still difficult
for the majority of researchers (those who don't use LaTeX) to grasp.

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With Authorea, LaTeX is only one of several formats you can write in.
Others include Markdown, and HTML (rich text, like MS Word). Authorea
offers a format-neutral, web-native platform. Regardless of the format,
you render content on the web -- not in a separate pane. The advantage:
you can collaborate with authors who don't know (and will never learn)
LaTeX. Authorea's rich text editor is a true WYSIWYG editor (What you
see is what you get). It also has the ability to include as much LaTeX
and mathematical notation as you need.~Every document written in
Authorea becomes a beautiful webpage.

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\caption{{Authorea's interface lets you add mathematics using an equation editor
or you can input raw LaTeX.
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\section*{2. Professionally typeset and format papers to thousands of
styles in one
click}

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\textbf{tl;dr~}\emph{In Overleaf you start with a template -- in
Authorea you write without thinking about format and then export to the
style you need}

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A benefit of LaTeX is that it outputs beautifully typeset PDFs. Overleaf
accomplishes this in the traditional way: you write LaTeX in a template
and then compile a PDF using that template styling. Authorea, in
comparison, separates format from content. Content is not restricted by
a particular output format. At any
time,~\href{https://intercom.help/authorea/publish/export/exporting-a-document}{you
can export a PDF, Word, or LaTeX version of your document in the style
of your choice}. For example, your requirements may look like this:
"\emph{download a one column line-numbered 12pt version with~APA
citations and figures positioned at the end of the document"}. Why is
this important? If Journal X rejects your manuscript, you won't waste a
day reformatting it for Journal Y. Authorea does it in one click. (And
yes, you can also easily export your LaTeX papers to Word's .docx
format!)

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\caption{{Authorea's Export Dashboard lets you export your work to thousands of
different styles and formats
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\section*{3. Built on Git, for superior version control and data
hosting}

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\textbf{tl;dr} \emph{In Authorea you can embed data into a repository
underneath a document, with Overleaf you cannot}

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Every Authorea document is a Git repository. This means you can push
from, pull to, and fork data directly from any article. Authorea's Git
back-end~has two major advantages:

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  All changes made to Authorea documents are tracked by Git i.e., one of
  the most robust version control systems. No longer will you need to
  track changes in Word. Version history of any document is integrated
  within the document itself.
\item
  Since every document in Authorea is a Git repository, you can include
  more than just text and images: data, code, videos, data
  visualizations, notebooks, workflows.
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Unlike Overleaf where documents you create are PDFs, Authorea creates
web-native documents that allow you to \textbf{integrate data, code and
all the material needed to reproduce scientific results}. This enables
transparency and reproducibility, the very foundations of the scientific
method. Authorea can allow the long-awaited leap that
will~\href{https://www.authorea.com/107282}{push~the scientific paper
into~the 21st century}.

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\section*{4. Authorea is the social, open science platform of the
future}

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\textbf{tl;dr~}\emph{Authorea is mission control for your research life,
Overleaf is an online LaTeX compiler}

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Overleaf is a writing tool. Authorea, in contrast, is a social, open
science platform. It provides scholars with a profile page, including
bios and statistics. Institutions also have dedicated~pages and
collaboration statistics. Authors can keep track of their academic
connections and \href{https://www.authorea.com/browse}{discover new
content}. As a result, Authorea is the place where the next generation
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\caption{{A glimpse into the future of Authorea: a powerful search engine for
scientific research
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