Ipe VS Mathcha

Ipe Reviews

1. Shibaji Banerjee    

   Teaching and Research | over 2 years ago
   IPE has close LaTeX integration

   I find IPE to be a life-savior when it comes to generating physics illustrations which come with their share of math toppings. The editor has nice utilities for latching on to the boundaries, intersection, center etc of geometric figures. The spline tool is the best I have seen anywhere. Layers are handled with grace. LaTeX is rendered instantly. It is very easy to produce a multipage document. What more can one possibly want?

   🏁 Competitors: Airtable, PGF and TikZ, LaTeXDraw

   👍 Pros:    Produces multipage documents|Possible to include latex style files and includes|Live rendering of latex blocks, not just math|Very easy to add stepwise revelations|Comes with a presenter that understands notes|Produced pdf can be easily included in latex documents|Completely free and open source

   👎 Cons:    May be difficult to figure some things right out of the box

Mathcha Reviews

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Mathcha mentions (15)

• Did you know about Matcha?

  I really liked the idea of having a graphical interface in the first two possibilities, but the first one is kind of a mess, and I personally found that the second one is not handy at all. I thus searched the web to find another solution, and I went through a thread mentioning Mathcha. Source: 6 months ago

• Help with my graphics

  A good tool that you could use is mathcha.io, which gives you a graphical user interface for drawing technical diagrams in LaTeX (with the TikZ package). Draw what you want and copy the corresponding LaTeX code into your document. Source: 10 months ago

• Struggling with TikZ for my Bachelor Thesis

  Mathcha.io seems to be abandoned since 2019 according to its Twitter account, and according to MalwareBytes it's become riskware. Do people have alternatives for WYSIWYG Tikz editors? I've loved it for differential and complex geometry (I made a bitchin diagram for the definition of a vector bundle), so I'm loathe to simply abandon it. Source: 12 months ago

• Struggling with TikZ for my Bachelor Thesis

  Mathcha.io can export tikz code. I use it for most of my stuff. If you get used to it you can do this schematic in less than an hour. Source: 12 months ago

• Taking math notes on your computer [LINUX]

  I have grown to always use mathcha.io. Imo if you're rendering really complicated stuff, you should just stick to using the actual LaTex files. Nothing beats it once you're used to it. Source: 12 months ago