DeTeXt vs Math Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeTeXt
Easily find LaTeX commands for symbols by drawing them or searching a comprehensive database. Get the exact command you need for your documents without memorization.
- Draw symbols to find LaTeX commands
- Neural image classification for symbol recognition
- Searchable database of 1098 symbols
- Supports Apple Pencil on iPad
- Copy commands, symbols, or Unicode codepoints
- Offline symbol database
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Finding the symbol you want to use in LaTeX can be hard since you can't memorize all the commands and packages for every symbol. DeTeXt tries to solve this problem by giving you two ways to find the command you want: - Draw the symbol you want and DeTeXt's neural image classification engine will identify what it thinks are the 20 most likely LaTeX commands that will generate a symbol closest to the one you drew. DeTeXt supports Apple Pencil drawings on the iPad. - Search the entire symbol set of 1098 symbols from packages like tipa, amsmath, amssymb, textcomp and more, in addition to the default mathematical symbols. - Copy the symbol, or the character itself, or its Unicode codepoint to the system clipboard, to paste anywhere else. DeTeXt's neural engine processes your drawn symbol and finds the best matches in its symbol database, all on your device without requiring you to be online. All the symbols are stored within the app as well.
Math Editor
Create and organize mathematical notes and presentations with a user-friendly interface. Input complex notations, import or create images, and utilize voice commands. Export documents as PDFs or images, and generate LaTeX strings.
- Enter complex mathematical notations
- Import and create images with built-in editor
- Handwritten notes optimized for Apple Pencil
- Create documents with rich formatting
- Voice commands and custom shortcuts
- Export to PDF and image formats
- Generate LaTeX strings
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Create, customize and organize Math notes and presentations with friendly interface: • Enter fractions, square roots, exponents, subscripts, integrals, sums, products, limits, piecewise functions, matrices, and most other mathematical notations. • Import images from external sources, or create them with built in image editor. • Take handwritten notes with the image editor, optimized for Apple Pencil. • Create documents with headers, text content, formulas, matrices, images and written notes. Highlight, color code and choose from different fonts. • Use Apple’s Voice recognition plus Math Editor’s voice commands. Create your own voice and keyboard commands for formulas or matrices. • Convert documents into PDF format or image format and export the files. • Generate LaTeX strings from your typed entries. View string blocks between matching LaTeX delimiters. • Create presentations, record and export presentation videos. • Save your work on your device and in iCloud. Synchronize data between devices. Made for students, teachers, tutors, engineers, scientists, and anyone who needs polished custom Math notes on iPhone/iPad. Help is available. Dark mode is supported. We welcome feedback: graphmath@aol.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Math Editor at free against DeTeXt's paid. Math Editor also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). DeTeXt's advantage is ratings volume (43 vs 4). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for DeTeXt against 5.0 for Math Editor. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DeTeXt has 43 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DeTeXt ships an update every 2 months, Math Editor every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | DeTeXt | Math Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (43 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan | Eteri Byazrova |
Customer experience
DeTeXt
Math Editor
In-app purchases
DeTeXt
No in-app purchases
Math Editor
No in-app purchases
