- [MacTeX](https://tug.org/mactex/) - Most common LaTeX distribution for macOS, basically TeXLive with some Mac-specific tools added. ![mac]
- [TeX Live](https://www.tug.org/texlive/) - Most common LaTeX distribution for Unix-like operating systems, including GNU/Linux. Also works on Windows. ![linux] ![windows]
- [pdfTeX](https://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/) - TeX compiler that produces PDF files immediately instead of DVI files (nowadays, this is the standard compiler for many users). ![foss]
- [XeTeX](http://xetex.sourceforge.net) - TeX compiler that provides better unicode and font support than TeX/pdfTeX (i.e. you can use the fonts of your operating system instead of only TeX fonts). ![foss]
- [LuaTeX](https://www.luatex.org) - (La)TeX compiler that supports Lua code for scripting and has improved unicode and font support than standard TeX/pdfTeX. ![foss]
- [Auto-LaTeX Equations with Google Docs](https://sites.google.com/site/autolatexequations) - Render high-quality math equations directly in Google Docs.
- [mimeTeX](https://ctan.org/pkg/mimetex) - mimeTeX is a rather old tool to render LaTeX formulas to PNG figures for your web site, without actually needing a LaTeX installation on your server. ![foss]
- [mathTeX](https://ctan.org/pkg/mathtex) - mathTeX is the successor of mimeTeX: it produces nicer-looking images but it requires LaTeX to be installed on your server. ![foss]
- [KaTeX](https://khan.GitHub.io/KaTeX/) - KaTeX is a math rendering library made by Khan Academy focusing on fast load times. All output is processed as plain HTML instead of fixed images. ![foss]
- [Franklin.jl](https://franklinjl.org/) - Static site generator with KaTeX support, code evaluation, LaTeX-like commands and optional pre-rendering, in Julia. ![foss]
A complete list of LaTeX editors is collected at [tex.stackexchange.com](https://tex.stackexchange.com/) as [big list of LaTeX Editors/IDEs](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/339/9075).
- [List of popular LaTeX editors](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/339/latex-editors-ides) - Community-maintained list of popular LaTeX editors including a screenshot and a short description.
- [BakomaTex](https://www.bakoma-tex.com) - Commercial LaTeX editor that allows to edit your document both using its source code and WYSIWYG.
- [Inlage](https://www.inlage.com/home) - Commercial LaTeX editor with handwritten formula recognition, Excel importing and more nifty features. ![windows]
- [Texpad](https://www.texpad.com) - Commercial LaTeX editor for macOS and iOS, with excellent features (document overview, synchronised PDF display, autocompletion, sync across devices, etc.) that never get in the way of writing. ![mac]
- [LaTeX Live Preview](https://github.com/xuhdev/vim-latex-live-preview) - Instantly previews your LaTeX document. ![foss]
- [vimtex](https://github.com/lervag/vimtex) - Modern vim plugin for editing LaTeX files. Has a variety of features including live preview and forward search. ![foss]
- [List of popular online LaTeX editors](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3/compiling-documents-online/1654#1654) - Community-maintained list of popular online LaTeX editor including equation editors.
- [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org) - Reference manager for your browser that also exports to bibtex and integrates with many LaTeX editors. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]
- [Mendeley](https://www.mendeley.com) - Both an app and cloud client to manage your references and PDFs. Can sync out to a bibtex file for your LaTeX workflow. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux]
- [betterbib](https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib) - Command-line utility for improving your BibTeX files. Fetches information from online sources. ![mac] ![windows] ![linux] ![foss]
- [Arara](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/arara) ([GitHub repo](https://github.com/islandoftex/arara)) - Simple tool that allows you to specify which tools to call inside your document and it can be extended quite easily. ![foss]
- [latexmk](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk) - Build tool that is the commonly used by many LaTeX editors (LaTeXing, TeXShop, etc.) to build your LaTeX files. ![foss]
- [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org) - This program converts almost any document format (LaTeX, DOC, markdown, etc.) to almost any other format. A great tool to aid workflows where multiple formats are used. ![foss]
- [LaTeXiT](https://www.chachatelier.fr/latexit/) - LaTeXit is an equation editor that makes it easy to drag-and-drop rendered equations (as PDF, PNG, etc.) into your non-LaTeX documents on the Mac. ![mac]
- [KLaTeXFormula](https://klatexformula.sourceforge.io) - Cross-platform alternative for LaTeXit. ![foss]
- [Laeqed](https://www.thrysoee.dk/laeqed/) - Crossplatform LaTeX formula to PNG convertor. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]
- [blacktex](https://github.com/nschloe/blacktex) - Command-line tool that replaces commonly occurring LaTeX anti-patterns and cleans up your files. ![windows] ![linux] ![mac] ![foss]
- [Cross-reference packages explained](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/36312/9075) - Elaboration on cross-reference packages (cleveref, varioref, theoremref, nameref, etc.): Which to use, which conflict?
- [csv2latex](http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/csv2latex) - Converts CSV files from your favorite programs to LaTeX `tabular`s. ![linux] ![mac]
- [Tables Generator](https://www.tablesgenerator.com) - This website provides a graphical interface to input your table and produces properly-formatted code for LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, etc.
- [pgfplotstable](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgfplotstable?lang=en) - This package displays numerical tables rounded to desired precision in various display formats. It can even read CSV files to include directly in your LaTeX document.
- [LaTeX en SI](https://sciences-indus-cpge.papanicola.info/-LaTeX-en-SI-) - Useful website with some custom packages to draw special plots (Bode, Nyquist, electrical schematics, block schematics, etc.) using TikZ. Note that everything is in French.
- [pgfplots](http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net) - Truly awesome plotting library on top of and in the style of TikZ/pgf. This library can load in CSV data files, perform some calculations and create beautiful plots.
- [A very minimal introduction to TikZ (PDF)](https://cremeronline.com/LaTeX/minimaltikz.pdf) - Short introductory document to the world of TikZ, written by Jacques Crémer.
- [PetarV-/TikZ](https://github.com/PetarV-/TikZ) - Collection of publication-ready PGF/TikZ figures by Petar Veličković.
- [minted](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/minted) - The minted package uses [pygments](https://pygments.org/) to generate the listings. In this way, LaTeX is able to format more than 300 programming and markup languages and other text formats.
- [nics](https://nics.nilcons.com/) - An opinionated alternative to Beamer, that we created with the hopes to make common tasks very easy and beautifully rendered by default. Has awesome documentation and a detailed cheatsheet to help you getting started.
- [Comprehensive LaTeX symbol list](https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/) - Very extensive list of symbols for LaTeX. Available in [A4](https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf) and [letter](https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-letter.pdf) sizes.
- [Detexify](https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html) - You draw the symbol and this site/app will tell you the LaTeX command.
- [Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1319/showcase-of-beautiful-typography-done-in-tex-friends) - Set of examples demonstrating the power of LaTeX.
- [Showcase of beautiful invitations in TeX](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/281415/9075) - Showcase of invitations typeset using LaTeX.
- [Showcase of "programming your document" paradigm](https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/219774/9075) - Collection of LaTeX documents demonstrating how LaTeX can be used like a programming language.
- [Begin LaTeX in minutes](https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Begin-Latex-in-minutes) - Brief intro to LaTeX for beginners that helps you use LaTeX with ease.
- [Getting to Grips with LaTeX](https://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex) - Complete guide going through the majority of things you need to know about LaTeX.
- [LaTeX introductions in languages other than English](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84384/latex-introductions-in-languages-other-than-english/84385) - Collection of introductions in many languages.
- [Formatting Information (2020)](https://latex.silmaril.ie/formattinginformation) - This is the HTML5-based online version of the book *Formatting Information - An introduction to typesetting with LATEX*. It has been continuosuly updated since the early 2000s.
The icons indicating Mac, Linux and Windows compatibility show when a program is *only* available for those platforms. So absence of those icons means that the software is fully cross-platform.
