Texifier : LaTeX editor

Some packages are jaw-droppingly out of date. Core LaTeX doesn’t move that quickly, but the packages do. With such old package versions, TeXPad is only borderline useful for anybody who uses LaTeX seriously.

Mouse support isn’t good. Text selection works very badly as the screen will scroll even if you’re still selecting within one line.

I’m a great fan of Texpad on Mac OS, but on an iPad it is very difficult to work with. For example, even with an Apple Pencil it is nearly impossible to go to the start of a line to e.g. comment out a line. I tried creating a simple document (few minutes of work on my MacBook) but gave up after about 30 minutes.... I’ll just stick to Texpad on my MacBook.

Keeps jumping to the top of the document, it doesn’t save the position in the document often if you close and open it and synchronizing the viewer is cumbersome. First time you hold the option comes up and immediately goes away because it first removes the keyboard. Then you have to hold it again and then it sometimes works. Not ideal at all.

“Typesetting failed out in the cloud. http error 0”.
There is no http error 0. No help for this problem either.
Zero points.

Ultra slow. Even removing the app takes ages. Sluggish reaction on about everything.
A few points
- generating local PDF's often much bigger than other programs. Reasons unclear
- navigating your documents is extremely difficult: synchronizing your code (synchronized scrolling with apple-D) with your visual output doesn't work, despite what the context menu claims. You have to manually search for the (visual) page you are working on
- when changing from one view to the other it's always a surprise where you will end up: often it's a random page you jump to.

Not good.
- generating local PDF's often much bigger than other programs. Reasons unclear
- local no support for imakeidx; it means you have to have an internet connection to generate an index with imakeidx. That's not the purpose of a LaTex editor and a big minus.
- navigating your documents is extremely difficult: synchronizing your code (synchronized scrolling with apple-D) with your visual output doesn't work, despite what the context menu claims. You have to manually search for the (visual) page you are working on
- when changing from one view to the other it's always a surprise where you will end up: often it's a random page you jump to.
- sometimes brackets or dollar signs are added correctly (or in the correct amount), sometimes not. Always a gamble if it will work.
No doubt all well meant, but not okay for 15 euro.

Not good. Can't use packages you add, despite the description. Creates very large locally generated PDF's up to three times bigger than other LaTeX compilers. Error messages even more cryptic than the standard LaTeX drivel. Expensive waste of money. I'll save this review in case Apple deletes the review again.

A good LaTeX environment for the iPad.
Via dropbox sync with my desktop and does a quick typeset, even realtime if desired.

Heading for my PhD thesis, I choose the LaTeX environment because of the mathematical & chemical formulas. This LaTeX editor on the iPad is so great and intuïtive, I prever it over my Tex environment in Windows, and with the dropboxsupport I can use both at choice.
I love the way commands are extended, works even for bibtex cites.
Also, the ease of working with multi-file documents is lovely.
The compiler seems to be a bit more sensitive for the bibtex librarysyntax, generated via Mendeley, then the Tex compiler, and I didnot found how to generate a bibliography at the end of each chapter, which does work in Tex, but those are minor details, yet.