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Flashpaper · for Windows

Write your paper. Get publication-quality LaTeX.

Flashpaper is a visual editor for academic papers. Pick IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier, NeurIPS or any of 88 styles and the PDF beside your text re-typesets in that style — without you ever seeing or writing code. Think Overleaf, but as easy as Word, and everything stays on your computer.

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Windows 10 & 11 · x64 · MSI / EXE · free, no account

How it works

Your text is the source. LaTeX is the output.

FlashPaper keeps a structured document and compiles it to LaTeX through the template you choose. LaTeX is never parsed back, which is what keeps what-you-see reliable.

  1. 01

    Write

    Type in a page-like editor. Add authors, an abstract, figures, tables, charts and equations without touching code.

  2. 02

    Pick a style

    Choose a journal or conference from the gallery. The PDF beside your text re-typesets instantly; your words never change.

  3. 03

    Export

    Take a PDF, a LaTeX project that compiles on Overleaf, or Markdown — saved to your Downloads folder.

Everything a paper needs

Figures, tables, charts, equations — formatted for the venue

Each template typesets them the way its journal wants, including two-column layouts and live cross-references.

See the full feature list

  • Write

    A page-like editor where you never see or write LaTeX.

  • Figures, tables, charts & equations

    Everything a paper needs, formatted the way each venue wants it.

  • Templates

    88 journal, conference and thesis styles. Switching never touches your text.

  • Live preview

    The PDF beside your text re-typesets in the chosen style.

  • Import & export

    Bring work in, take LaTeX out — you are never locked in.

  • Private & local

    Your papers never leave your computer.

88 templates

Your venue is probably already in the gallery

Official styles use the publisher's own LaTeX class. Look-alikes reproduce a venue's layout where the official files can't be redistributed — fine for drafting, then use the venue's kit for the final submission.

Engineering & CS19
IEEE, ACM, Springer LNCS, AIAA, ASME, ASCE
Machine learning & AI12
NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, AAAI, JMLR, TMLR
Physical sciences14
APS Physical Review, AIP, AAS (ApJ), MNRAS, ACS, SPIE, Optica
Life & medical sciences5
Cell Press, eLife, PLOS ONE, BMC, ICMJE/AMA
Mathematics3
AMS article, AMS proceedings, SIAM
Humanities & social sciences5
APA 7 (journal, manuscript, student), MLA 9, Chicago
Journals & publishers22
Elsevier, Springer Nature, Oxford, PNAS, Nature, Science, MDPI, Frontiers, Wiley
Theses & reports2
Thesis / dissertation, Report
General & preprints6
arXiv preprint, plain article, two-column, KOMA, Tufte, double-spaced
How templates work

Private by design

No account and no cloud. Each paper is a folder on your disk, and FlashPaper only goes online once, to fetch the LaTeX packages for your first build.

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