Overleaf Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8 out of 10

Score

8 out of 10

Community insights

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Business Problems Solved

Users have found Overleaf to be a valuable tool for easily creating well-decorated documents with headings, sections, subsections, and images. The platform is commonly used for generating CVs, resumes, and study plans, providing templates and remote access and editing capabilities. Researchers, students, and professors highly recommend Overleaf for preparing scientific documents, sharing them with collaborators, proofreading, and generating PDF files for conferences and journals. Its user-friendly dashboard and efficient tools make it easy to create LaTeX documents for various purposes, from mathematics proofs to technical reports. Users appreciate the availability of annotated bibliography templates on Overleaf. Collaborators can simultaneously modify, comment, and edit documents, making it useful for collaborative work on scientific papers and other projects. Overleaf is also commonly used for creating resumes, completing thesis work, and assignments online. PhD students value its ease of use and time-saving features compared to other LaTeX editors. Additionally, Overleaf allows for the creation of research articles without the need for bulky LaTeX editing software, offering short tutorials for tasks like adding figures and tables.

Reviews

3 Reviews

Overleaf

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 21, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Overleaf to write research papers in latex with collaboration in real time. It's one of the only products that allows for this and offers adequate storage and usage for students. There are many templates to get started for the various journals that you may want to submit to

Pros

Real time collaboration
Cloud storage
Keeping track of changes

Cons

IEEE benefits were removed
Commenting system could be better
Project organization could be better

Likelihood to Recommend

Because there are not a lot of options for LaTeX editors, Overleaf offers a beginner friendly option that has online capabilities. It's useful for older and younger users to collaborate since it's not as technologically difficult compared to a Git based or other version control process. It's fairly cheap for students to get.

Victor Philippe

Graduate Research Assistant in Research & Development at University of Georgia (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Overleaf for student reports

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 26, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As students working in groups, we like to use Overleaf to write our project reports. The fact that you can work with several people on the same document at the same time just works really well for us. Together with the fact that you can see the changes right away is just really useful for our group work.

Pros

Teamwork
Organizing
Reliable

Cons

New user friendliness
More concise error messages
Layout

Likelihood to Recommend

Overleaf is good to use in a lot of scenarios where something is to be written as a group. However, I believe that it is only good up to a certain amount of people working on the document at once. While I am unsure when it becomes too much, I got no doubt that there is a limit for when it is that good. Though normally, our group size of up to six people has been fine to work with in Overleaf.

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Jeanette Ærengren

Student at Aalborg University (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Overleaf Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 26, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Overleaf for writing purposes, both scientific and collaborative. It functions well as an easy to use, easy to start up with, Latex editor without having to install additional software and compilers. One of my main use cases for Overleaf is as a tool for writing scientific and research papers with partners. I also use the documentation for Latex whenever I am lost with syntax.

Pros

Easy to get started and compile documents
Collaborative scientific writing
Latex documentation
Built in templates
Comments and chat features

Cons

Version history is a great feature but only available in the paid version

Likelihood to Recommend

Overleaf is great for writing scientific and research documents, especially when there is a lot of technical detail and mathematics involved. It shines when using complicated formats such as double column, or changing font sizes and still maintaining professional looking formatting.

One of the best features is the collaborative writing with people in your team. You can work on a document together, leave notes and comments for the other person to read, and if you have the paid subscription the version history feature is great.

The only time I think Overleaf is not suitable is when the document complexity does not justify it - for a simple document without mathematics and just a few paragraphs, or a rough document which does not need to be shared - a simple Microsoft Word document will be better

Basheq Tarifi

Biomedical and Electrical Engineer in Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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