# Papeeria review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Online LaTeX and Markdown editor with real-time collaboration Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Papeeria is a browser-based editor for LaTeX and Markdown documents with a full TeX Live environment on the server. It adds shared editing, a plot builder, templates and Git sync. A free plan covers public projects and one private project. - **Category:** Writing Tools - **Made by:** Papeeria - **Website:** https://papeeria.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: one active private project and 24 hours of file history. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Papeeria has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Epsilon plan: unlimited public projects and collaborators, one active private project, Git sync with public repositories, 24-hour file history. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Epsilon | $0 | Unlimited public projects, one active private project, simple plot builder and read-write Git sync for public repositories. | | Delta | $5 per month, 'starts from'; billing basis not shown | Up to 10 active private projects, auto compiling, priority compiling, 30-day history, Dropbox and Google Drive sync. | Read from https://papeeria.com/about/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Papeeria before buying. ## Key features - **LaTeX and Markdown:** Write pure LaTeX or mix it with Markdown, with background auto-compilation on the Delta plan. - **Real-time collaboration:** Edit together, with margin discussions, autocompletion, a spellchecker and an instant math previewer. - **Plot builder:** Build simple plots in the browser; gnuplot integration is part of Delta. - **Template gallery:** Start from templates such as a CV, an ACM journal paper or a math-heavy presentation. - **Git, Dropbox and Google Drive sync:** Git sync is on both plans (private repositories on Delta); Dropbox and Google Drive sync is Delta only. ## Good for - Students learning LaTeX who need no local install - Small groups co-writing papers in a browser ## Worth knowing - The free plan allows only one active private project. - The pricing page shows only a 'starts from $5/month' figure and does not state a billing period. - Delta can add more private-project quota for purchase, but prices for that are not shown. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Papeeria is a web editor for LaTeX and Markdown with real-time collaboration and Git sync. The free plan has one active private project, and the paid price is shown only as "starts from $5" with no billing period. - **Value for money: C.** Delta starts from $5 a month, but the page gives no billing period and no price for extra private projects. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Epsilon is free with unlimited public projects and collaborators, but only one active private project and 24 hours of file history. - **Features: C.** LaTeX and Markdown, live collaboration, a plot builder, templates and Git, Dropbox and Drive sync. Full-text search is limited to the current project on the free plan. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. LaTeX itself has a learning curve. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Dropbox, Google Drive, Mendeley and gnuplot. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Papeeria's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among writing tools - Papeeria's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 35 of the 136 other writing tools we grade, and level with 23. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 71 of 136) and worst on features (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $5 a month, against a middle price of $8.66 for the category: 14 of the 81 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/writing ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** A writing app at its plainest is a page that saves what you type. You could make the core of Papeeria for yourself: Markdown, templates and documents. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $60 a year. - You could make: Markdown, templates and documents: an app builder makes these well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Dropbox, Google Drive, Mendeley, gnuplot **Tags:** Real-time collaboration, Markdown, Templates, Documents ## Alternatives - [Overleaf](https://toolgpa.com/tools/overleaf): Collaborative online LaTeX editor for papers and theses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/overleaf-vs-papeeria) - [TeXPage](https://toolgpa.com/tools/texpage): Online LaTeX editor with cloud compilation and AI proofreading. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/papeeria-vs-texpage) - [Typst](https://toolgpa.com/tools/typst): Markup-based typesetting system with a collaborative web app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/papeeria-vs-typst) - [CoCalc](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cocalc): Shared online workspace for LaTeX, Jupyter notebooks and code. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cocalc-vs-papeeria) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://papeeria.com - https://papeeria.com/about/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/papeeria Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).