Zettlr
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Zettlr, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Zettlr's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free and open source software · no payment required to download |
The facts
Each one read from Zettlr's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- Zettlr began as a Markdown editor built for academic researchers and is also used by students, journalists, authors, and others writing substantial amounts of text.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Citation managers
- Zettlr supports Zotero, JabRef, and Juris-M, and the site says it supports more than 9,000 citation styles.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Customization
- The app renders LaTeX equations and Mermaid charts and supports extensive settings and custom CSS.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Formats and export
- Zettlr supports standard compatible Markdown and export to formats supported by Pandoc.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker identifies LanguageTool integration and reference manager support for Zotero, JabRef, and Juris-M.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Note sharing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says app data is not collected, files stay on the user's computer, and update checks can be disabled.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Publishing workflows
- Its Pandoc-powered profile system can export papers with templates and create presentation profiles for Beamer, reveal.js, or PowerPoint.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Zettlr is a publication workbench for writing projects from initial notes through journal submission or book manuscripts.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Release limits
- The maker says older releases are unsupported and warns that nightly releases may contain many bugs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- Users can seek community help through the forum and Discord, consult the manual, or report errors on GitHub.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Supported systems
- The download page provides installers for Windows 10 or newer, macOS 12 or newer, and Linux distributions and formats including Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/Red Hat, and AppImage.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Website analytics
- The maker says its website uses Matomo with anonymization and GDPR-oriented settings, stores the data on a server in Germany, and does not sell it to third parties.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Writing and notes
- Zettlr supports Zettelkasten workflows with note IDs, wiki-style internal links, related files, navigation, and graph view.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2017checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- Windows,macOS,Linuxchecked 20 Sep 2026
