Typst

About Typst

Typst is a markup-based typesetting system and a web editor from Berlin, built as an alternative to LaTeX. Martin Haug and Laurenz Mädje started the compiler in 2019 at TU Berlin and incorporated Typst GmbH in 2023. The compiler is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, and the web app is closed source. The free plan gives 200MB of storage and up to 100 files per project. Typst Pro costs $7.99 or €7.99 a month, or $79.99 or €79.99 a year, and adds comments, Git sync with GitHub and GitLab, and Zotero and Mendeley sync.

Typst is a typesetting language and a compiler that turns markup into PDF, PNG, SVG and, in preview, HTML. Authors write plain-text markup with Markdown-like syntax for headings, emphasis and lists, and call functions with a hash sign. Typst has built-in maths, tables, bibliographies that read BibTeX files, and a scripting language for templates. The compiler is a single binary written in Rust and downloads packages on first use.

Martin Haug and Laurenz Mädje began building the compiler in 2019 and first published Typst in 2022 through their master’s theses at Technische Universität Berlin. Typst GmbH was incorporated in Berlin in 2023. On 21 March 2023 the company opened the web app to everyone as a public beta and published the compiler on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. Haug is CEO, Mädje is CTO and the main language designer.

The company earns money from the closed-source web app. Typst Pro adds comments, review-only shares, folders, private packages, Git sync and reference sync. Typst On-Premises runs the web app in a customer’s own data centre from 5 organisation members, and Open Source Support sells help to teams that build on the compiler. In August 2025 Typst said it was financially sustainable, had 5 team members in 3 countries and users at more than 3,500 universities and laboratories. The hosted web app stores data in a data centre in Germany.

History

1. 2019 Martin Haug and Laurenz Mädje start building the Typst compiler. The GitHub repository dates from 24 September 2019.
2. 2022 Haug and Mädje first publish Typst through their master’s theses at TU Berlin.
3. 2023 Typst GmbH is incorporated in Berlin.
4. 2023 On 21 March, after three months of closed preview, the web app opens as a public beta and the compiler goes open source.
5. 2023 On 30 June the team ships a package manager for Typst, built in one week.
6. 2025 Typst 0.13 comes out on 19 February with a first experimental HTML export.
7. 2025 On 2 April IJIMAI becomes the first journal with an official template on Typst Universe.
8. 2025 On 20 August Typst reports 5 team members in 3 countries and users at over 3,500 academic institutions.
9. 2025 On 26 September Typst Pro gets project folders and review-only share links.
10. 2025 Typst 0.14 comes out on 24 October and produces accessible, tagged PDFs by default.
11. 2025 GitHub’s Octoverse report of 28 October ranks Typst the second fastest-growing language by percentage.
12. 2026 Typst 0.15 comes out on 15 June with variable fonts, MathML and multiple bibliographies.

Leadership

• MH Martin Haug Founder and CEO, managing director
• LM Laurenz Mädje Founder and CTO, managing director, main language designer
• AG Ana Gelez Software engineer, first hire, Typst Universe
• TS Tobias Schmitz Software engineer on the compiler since 2025
• GM Gabriel Moreira Freelance software engineer on the compiler, from Brazil

Roles from the Typst about page and the imprint on 8 October 2026. The jobs page listed no open positions.

Video, blogs and resources

• Guide for LaTeX usersHow LaTeX commands, packages and bibliographies map to Typst, and its limits↗
• Typst documentationTutorial, language reference and changelog↗
• Web app docsProjects, teams, comments, Git and reference sync↗
• Typst UniverseCommunity packages and templates↗
• PlaygroundTry the language in the browser without an account↗

Products

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  EditorPreviewPDF

  Project
  Typst web app An editor in the browser with a live preview, autocomplete and real-time collaboration. Projects can start from a Typst Universe template or from converted LaTeX, Word or Markdown files. Share links give read or write access, and teams own projects together. Web app docs ↗
• Apache 2.0RustCLIPDFPNGSVGHTMLtypst watch
  Typst compiler The open-source command-line compiler under the Apache 2.0 licence, with 400+ contributors on GitHub. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, installs with winget or Homebrew, and works as a library inside other apps. Version 0.15.1 is current. Open source ↗

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  Typst Universe The public hub for community packages and templates, from journal articles and theses to CVs and slides. In August 2025 it held over 400 packages and about 390 templates. IJIMAI has an official journal template there. Universe ↗

• Please cite the 2024 dataset here

  Added @smith2024 to the bibliography

  Resolved, thanks

  Comments and review shares Typst Pro comments attach to a range of text and stay with it during editing. A review-only share link lets supervisors and co-authors comment without changing the text. Collaborators can comment without Pro when the project owner has it. Comments docs ↗
• Team progress

  Sales

  Support

  Product
  Typst On-Premises The web app on the customer’s own servers, from 5 organisation members, with LDAP access control, shared packages and fonts, and priority support. Typst names IABG and Neodyme as On-Premises users. Pricing ↗
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  Project
  Open Source Support Commercial support contracts for companies that run the open-source compiler, with help on deployment, patches and usage. Typst says UBS uses it to generate transactional documents. About ↗

How much is Typst?

• Free $0/mo Free, 200MB storage, 100 files per project, €0
• 14% off yearly Pro $6.67/mo $79.99 a year, or $7.99 monthly; €79.99 a year or €7.99 monthly; £67.81 a year or £6.77 monthly; 2GB storage
• On-Premises Custom from 5 organisation members, on request

Is Typst free?

The free plan has no time limit. It includes projects, sharing and collaboration, community packages and templates, conversion from LaTeX, Word and Markdown, error Assists, 200MB of storage and up to 100 files per project.

Prices on typst.app/pricing on 8 October 2026, for one user, in US dollars, euros (Germany and France) and British pounds. Typst’s terms say all amounts include VAT. The US price was shown without sales tax. The yearly plan saves 14%, and its monthly figure is the yearly price divided by 12. The pricing page lists no student or education discount. Typst Pro has no free trial; first-time subscribers get a full refund if they cancel within 14 days.

• Withdrawal for EU consumers ↗
  1. Email hello@typst.app or write to Typst GmbH within 14 days of the purchase
  2. State clearly that you withdraw from the contract
  3. Typst refunds the payment within 14 days of your notice

• First-time Pro subscribers get a full refund if they cancel within the first 14 days.
• A subscription with a fixed term renews for the same term unless you cancel it.
• If your data exceeds the free 200MB after Pro ends, you can read it for up to 6 months but cannot edit or add files.
• Deleting the account permanently deletes all projects and backups, so export your files first.

Refund rules

Law

German law applies. Consumers keep the mandatory protections of the country where they live.

Free plan

Free users can end the contract at any time. Typst can end it with one week’s notice.

Typst pricing page and terms of 10 May 2024, checked on 8 October 2026

Is Typst worth it?

What users and the project itself report, not our rating. Typst has no Trustpilot page and no reviews on G2. The free plan has 200MB of storage, and Pro costs $7.99 or €7.99 a month.

Latest news

1. 15 June 2026Typst 0.15 contains multitudes ↗
2. 24 October 2025Typst 0.14: Now accessible ↗
3. 26 September 2025September feature drop: folders and review-only shares ↗
4. 20 August 2025Two years and counting: How we are building the future of technical writing ↗
5. 2 April 2025IJIMAI leads the way for journal submissions with Typst ↗
6. 21 March 2023Typst starts its public beta test and goes open-source ↗

Contacts and company data

• Generalhello@typst.app
• Contact formtypst.app/contact
• Forumforum.typst.app

Legal entity

Typst GmbH, Heidestraße 34, c/o beyond Quartier Heidestraße, 10557 Berlin, Germany

Company

Typst GmbH, HRB 251907 B, Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg

Managing directors

Martin Ernst Haug, Laurenz Mädje

VAT ID

DE 360 900 961

Incorporated

2023 in Berlin

Data hosting

Data centre in Germany for the web app

Terms of use

German law, version of 10 May 2024

Alternatives to Typst

• Overleaf🇬🇧 United Kingdom An online LaTeX editor from London. Its free plan allows 1 collaborator per project and a 10-second compile timeout, and the Student plan costs $8.25 a month billed yearly. →
• Mendeley🇬🇧 United Kingdom A reference manager from Elsevier. Typst Pro syncs bibliographies from Mendeley and Zotero. →

How we built this profile

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