Everything Mathend does

Mathend is a document editor built for people whose documents are mostly mathematics — students, educators, and anyone who writes derivations for a living. It is free, it runs on your own machine, and the notes you write never leave it unless you ask an AI model to look at them.

Four things make it different from a general-purpose word processor.

Complex Tables, Simplified

A table in a lab report is not decoration — it is data you keep changing. Most editors treat it as a layout object, so every added column means re-dragging borders and re-checking alignment while the numbers you actually care about sit still.

Mathend's tables are built for the editing you do after the first draft: insert and remove rows and columns without the layout collapsing, merge and split cells, and keep computed values in the document rather than in a separate spreadsheet you have to remember to update.

Everything survives the export. What you see in the editor is what lands in the DOCX or PDF you hand in.

Math at Your Fingertips

There are two usual ways to enter mathematics, and both cost you something. A symbol palette costs your hands leaving the keyboard. LaTeX costs you the markup you have to keep in your head, plus a compile step before you can see whether you got it right.

Mathend gives you a virtual math keyboard inside the editor: integrals, sums, matrices, Greek letters and relations are one press away, and the result renders as you type. There is no compile step and no placeholder box to open before you can read your own equation.

If you already think in LaTeX, that still works — the point is that you are not required to.

Smart Agent Integration

The agent is not a chat window pasted next to your document. It reads the document you are in and edits it directly, so “check this derivation” or “turn these results into a table” refers to what is actually on screen.

Bring your own API key — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, Groq, OpenRouter or GitHub Copilot — and requests go straight from your machine to that provider at their prices. Or skip key management entirely and spend prepaid credits on the hosted agent.

Either way the model is a choice, not a lock-in: switch providers from the model menu without changing how you work.

Stay in Your Flow

The usual math workflow is four applications: an editor for prose, a calculator or CAS for the arithmetic, a converter for the file format, and a chat window for when you are stuck. Every switch is a chance to lose the thread.

Mathend puts writing, computing, the AI agent, and PDF and DOCX import and export in one workspace. Notes are stored locally on your machine, so the editor opens instantly, works without an account, and does not need a network round trip to show you your own work.

The desktop build ships for Windows and Linux today.

What it costs

The editor is free forever, with no account and no feature gates. The only paid part is the hosted AI agent, and only if you would rather not manage your own API key — see pricing for the per-model rates, or download it and try the editor first.