TikZ Editor
Tikz editor in Productivity & writing
Lets you draw LaTeX TikZ figures visually and edit old TikZ source cleanly, and it is open source. Critics say generated code is weak and relative positioning is unsupported.
Lets you draw LaTeX TikZ figures visually and edit old TikZ source cleanly, and it is open source. Critics say generated code is weak and relative positioning is unsupported.
27 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 26
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 96%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 26 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 26 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Long-awaited tool people wanted
“I would have loved something like this when I was studying in University.”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” “This is so cool. I would have loved this in college.”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” “I've always wanted something like this!”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” - Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX”
- Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX”
Open source
“I really wanted something like this. Thanks for making it open source.”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” “Great job! Thank you for making it open source.”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” Well made and mature
“this looks much more mature”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” “this seems really well made”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” Visual drawing with code
“Great product visualization with code”
Comment from 24 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” “Looks great for Tikz native though.”
Comment from 24 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Grid lines faint or uneven
“the grid lines are so faint there that it's hard to tell”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX” “many (but not all) of the grid cells are rectangles, not squares”
Comment from 23 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX”
What people said
22 of the 29 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Great product visualization with code”
“Looks great for Tikz native though.”
“this seems really well made”
“the grid lines are so faint there that it's hard to tell”
“Just tried the text nodes and indeed the arrows work.”
“this looks much more mature”
“the generated TikZ code is not good in my opinion”
“This is so cool. I would have loved this in college.”
“many (but not all) of the grid cells are rectangles, not squares”
“it doesn't support TikZ' relative positioning (left of etc) because WYSIWYG features like drag-and-drop require absolute positioning?”
“I needed exactly this for years”
“On desktop you can even directly open an arXiv paper!”
“OMG! Psychiatrists are going to lose all of their graduate customers! The world thanks you.”
“That's awesome! Long overdue.”
“Great job! Thank you for making it open source.”
“This is great, nice concept! Good use of coding agents.”
“I would have loved something like this when I was studying in University.”
“I really wanted something like this. Thanks for making it open source.”
“The killer feature for me is not drawing TikZ visually, but being able to touch old TikZ without turning the source into generated-looking soup.”
“All STEM students and researches from the world thank you”
“I've always wanted something like this!”
“Wow, this is really, really great.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.