TeXora

Present PDF and LaTeX Beamer slides with confidence.
Free for non-commercial use, with its source code open to read, for macOS, Windows and Linux.

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TeXora is a presenter for LaTeX Beamer and PDF slides. You see your notes, the current and next slide and the time; the room sees only the slide. Open a .tex file and TeXora compiles it, then rebuilds the slides every time you save it in your own editor.

Screenshots

Home	Presenter view

Slide and notes, side by side	Every slide at a glance

The audience window shows only the slide, fullscreen on a projector or second screen:

Features

• Presenter view: notes, current and next slide, slide number and overlay step, elapsed time, talk duration with pace (ahead or behind), and a clock. Also a large-slide view and a split view.
• Audience window (F5): fullscreen on a second display, or press F11 on one display. Black screen (B), whiteboard (W) and freeze (F) to look ahead privately.
• LaTeX Beamer: open a .tex file and it compiles with pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX (chosen for you from % !TEX program or the packages used). Edit it in any editor; the slides rebuild when you save. Compile errors are shown with their line until fixed.
• Required packages: Settings lists every package, theme and program your file needs, marked Installed or Needs download, with how to get it.
• Speaker notes from PDF notes pages (Beamer's show notes on second screen), from \note{} in the source, from a .pdfpc file, or from a Markdown file beside the presentation.
• Drawing and pointing: pen, highlighter, eraser, a laser pointer in several colours, and zoom into an area. Ink is kept per slide.
• Zoom any slide with the wheel or a pinch, around the pointer.
• Bookmarks and questions: mark slides in their section's colour, and mark where questions came up. Only you see them.
• Contents and search in a sidebar, from the PDF outline and text.
• Analytics: time on each slide for every rehearsal, compared with the last one.
• Tabs: several presentations open at once, each keeping its place, ink and timer.
• Configurable shortcuts, a System check (? menu) that shows what your computer has, a command-line tool, and update notices: TeXora looks for a new release when it starts and every few hours while it is open, and tells you in a small notice with a download for your computer.

Download and install

Get TeXora from the latest release.

System	Installer	Portable
macOS, Apple chips (M1 and later)	TeXora-<version>-mac-arm64.dmg	…-mac-arm64.zip
macOS, Intel	TeXora-<version>-mac-x64.dmg	…-mac-x64.zip
Windows 10 and 11 (x64)	TeXora-<version>-windows-x64-setup.exe	…-windows-x64.zip
Debian, Ubuntu and relatives (x64)	texora_<version>_amd64.deb	TeXora-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz
Debian, Ubuntu and relatives (arm64)	texora_<version>_arm64.deb	TeXora-<version>-linux-arm64.tar.gz

• macOS: open the .dmg and drag TeXora to Applications. The first time, right-click it and choose Open, because it is not signed with a paid Apple certificate.
• Windows: run the setup program. It installs for you alone without administrator rights (or for everyone, if you choose), adds TeXora to the Start menu and to "Open with" for PDF and .tex files, and appears in Installed apps for uninstalling. Windows may warn about an unknown publisher.
• Linux: sudo apt install ./texora_<version>_amd64.deb, then start TeXora from the menu or run texora. Or unpack the .tar.gz anywhere and run ./TeXora. Needs glibc 2.31 or newer (Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 11 or later) and an X11 or Wayland desktop.

Every file is listed with its checksum in SHA256SUMS.txt, and VALIDATION.txt shows how each one was tested before the release.

Nothing else is needed to present PDFs: each package carries the program and its PDF engine. To compile .tex files, install a TeX distribution: MacTeX on macOS, MiKTeX or TeX Live on Windows, TeX Live on Linux.

Using it

1. Open a PDF or .tex file from Home, or drop it on the window. Write your .tex file in any LaTeX editor; TeXora compiles and presents it.
2. Press F5 to open the audience window, and move with the arrow keys or Space.
3. Notes: add \setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=right} to your Beamer preamble, use \note{...}, or write talk.notes.md beside talk.pdf with a ## Slide N heading per slide.

? > Documentation in the app has a short guide.

Keyboard shortcuts

All can be changed in Settings. On macOS Cmd is used; on Windows and Linux, Ctrl.

Action	Keys	Action	Keys
Next / previous step	Right, Space / Left	Next / previous slide	Shift+Right / Shift+Left
First / last slide	Home / End	Go to slide	G
Audience window	F5	Fullscreen	F11
Black / white screen	B / W	Freeze audience	F
Overview	O	Split view	S
Large slide	N	Back	Backspace
Start or pause timer	P	Stop and reset timer	R
Set talk duration	U	Bookmark slide	M
Mark a question	Q	Contents	T
Search	Cmd/Ctrl+F	Analytics	Y
Pointer / pen / highlighter	V / D / H	Eraser / laser	X / L
Zoom to area	Z	Zoom in / out / fit	+ / - / 0
Undo ink / clear ink	Cmd/Ctrl+Z / C	Compile LaTeX	Cmd/Ctrl+B
Check required packages	Cmd/Ctrl+K	Open file	Cmd/Ctrl+O
Home	Cmd/Ctrl+L	Close tab	Cmd/Ctrl+W
Settings	Cmd/Ctrl+,	Cancel	Esc

Command line

TeXora talk.pdf                          # open a presentation
TeXora --self-test                       # check this copy works (exit code 0 means it passed)
TeXora --help                            # every option

? > Command-line tool in the app shows the exact path of your copy.

Building from source

Needs Rust (stable). The PDF engine (PDFium) is downloaded on the first build.

git clone https://github.com/khalidt/TeXora.git
cd TeXora
cargo build --release
./target/release/TeXora
cargo test

Project layout

Path	What it holds
src/	The app, in Rust with egui and PDFium.
assets/	App icon (assets/icon.png), Home picture, fonts and the sample lecture.
scripts/	Packaging, installer, release and icon scripts.
installer/	The Windows installer (Inno Setup).
.github/workflows/	Continuous tests and the release workflow.
screenshots/	The pictures in this README.

Updates

When a new version is published here, TeXora shows a notice in the lower right corner by itself, with See what's new, Later and Skip this version, and a dot on the ? button. The update box offers the package for your computer and the release page; install it over your copy and your settings stay. ? > Check for updates asks at any time. Turn the automatic look off in Settings > Updates. TeXora 1.0.0 shows the dot on ? only.

Licence

Copyright 2026 Khalid Alkhaldi. Licensed under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 (https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0): free to use, change and share for any non-commercial purpose, including personal use, study, teaching, research and non-profit work. Commercial use needs the author's permission. The app icon and Home picture are the author's artwork and are not covered by the licence. See CREDITS.md for the libraries and fonts used.

Made by Khalid Alkhaldi.