The announcement contains more detail, a FAQ list and the following explanation. The announcement says everyone from both teams will continue to be involved. Recently, Overleaf fully acquired ShareLaTeX (Scribtex Limited) and plans to integrate the two products into one.

Though note that these are not the only browser-based LaTeX editors – a native operating system ‘B’ means browser-based in this Wikipedia list of TeX editors and there are currently ten Bs in the list. If (like me) you were vaguely aware that there was an online LaTeX editor out there without using it, it was probably one of these or the other (or, I’m pretty sure, both at different times). If you use one of them, know that the other is fairly similar. Both Overleaf and ShareLaTeX offer browser-based LaTeX editing. In 2015, writeLaTeX rebranded as Overleaf. The very next year, there launched an online LaTeX editor called writeLaTeX. Once upon a time ( 2011), there launched an online LaTeX editor called ShareLaTeX. You're reading: News ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are merging

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