About Collabula

Collabula is a web-based collaborative LaTeX editor built for students, researchers, and academics who need to work together on serious documents without fighting their tools.

Our mission

Academic writing should bring people together, not pull them apart. We're building Collabula to make precise, polished LaTeX documents feel as natural and immediate as a conversation — connecting collaborators across institutions, time zones, and borders, so distance never decides who gets to work with whom.

Why we started

Collabula began with a simple idea: bring everything writers already love about LaTeX into a modern, browser-native workspace with real-time collaboration and a clean, focused interface.

A defining choice is that compilation runs entirely in your browser. Your source never has to leave your device to produce a PDF, which is better for privacy and removes the server-imposed timeouts that can interrupt longer builds. Compile time scales with your own machine rather than a shared queue, so faster hardware means faster feedback. The first compile of a session takes a little longer while the engine and its packages are warmed up and cached locally; subsequent compiles are considerably quicker.

Where we're from

Collabula was founded in Portugal by a solo founder who cares about craft. Our infrastructure is hosted in the European Union, with primary servers in Ireland, so that data residency, latency, and privacy align with the expectations of European researchers and institutions while staying fast for collaborators worldwide.

What we believe

We build on strong open-source foundations and credit the people whose work makes ours possible. We'd rather be honest about what Collabula does well today than promise everything at once, and we plan to keep improving in the open alongside the community that uses us.

Open Source Acknowledgments

Collabula builds on these projects and is proud to support high-quality open-source software.