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\title{ShareLaTeX vs Overleaf}


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


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\section*{Deciding between ShareLaTeX and Overleaf? Choosing the right
editor for your LaTeX manuscript is not easy. Here are some key
comparison points that showcase how Authorea is different from
both.~}

{\label{462039}}\par\null

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

{\label{744063}}

If you are reading this, you probably know LaTeX: a typsetting system
ideal for scientific papers. ShareLaTeX and Overleaf bring 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 non-LaTeX users (the vast majority) to grasp.

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With Authorea, LaTeX is one of many formats you can write in. Others
include Markdown, and HTML (rich text, like Word!). Authorea offers a
format-neutral, web-native platform. Regardless of the format, you
render content on the web - not a separate pane that compiles a PDF
(side note, you can still export a PDF\ldots{} see below!). 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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A benefit of LaTeX is that it outputs beautifully typset PDFs.
ShareLaTeX and Overleaf~accomplish 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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Every Authorea document is a Git repository you can interact with (i.e.
push from, pull to, fork, etc). Our Git back-end~has two major
advantages: 1) 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. 2) 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.
Unlike ShareLaTeX and 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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\caption{{Authorea's History view is like track changes on steroids, fully built
on Git
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\section*{}

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\section*{4. Built for Open Data and Open
Research}

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Unlike ShareLaTeX and Overleaf, Authorea documents are web-native and
allow you to integrate data, code and all the material needed to
reproduce scientific results. This enables transparency and
reproducibility, the pillars of the scientific method. Do you see that
data icon to the left of the Fig.~{\ref{629008}},
below? Click on it to gain access to the data ``behind the figure'' -
there is a CSV and an Jupyter Notebook associated with the figure.

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\caption{{Any chart you upload on Authorea (this one included) ~can be
data-driven. Click on the data icon to access a CSV table and a Jupyter
Notebook behind the figure.
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}}
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\section*{5. Authorea is the social, open science platform of the
future}

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ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are writing tools. 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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