Scientific writing and publishing tools provider Overleaf and ShareLaTeX have announced that they are joining forces. They will be bringing their teams and services together as they continue to build the world's best tools for collaborative writing.
Over the past 4 years, both ShareLaTeX and Overleaf have been hugely successful - seeing rapid, sustained growth in usage. The combined community comprises over two million authors at thousands of institutions and enterprises around the world, ranging from students writing up their first group projects to professional researchers collaborating on their papers, grant proposals and more. Naturally, they have always been compared and provided each other with some friendly competition, but behind the scenes, they have often been trying to figure out a way to work together.
The driving aim behind Overleaf's acquisition of ShareLaTeX is to bring the best of both editors together in a way that benefits everyone. The ShareLaTeX team has built a truly real-time collaborative editing environment, including a great new tracked changes feature, intelligent help for common LaTeX errors, and amazing resources for learning LaTeX. The Overleaf team has at the same time been busy working on its WYSIWYG editing tools for users new to LaTeX and its partnerships with journals, publishers and publisher back-end systems that enable direct submission and streamlined editorial workflows for over 10,000 journals. By working together, they can avoid duplicating their efforts as they look to achieve the same goals.
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