MacTeX

mactex · v2026.0324

7.0

Full TeX Live distribution with GUI applications

brew install --cask mactex

Compare with: vs. MacTeX vs. BasicTeX vs. MiKTeX vs. TeX Live Utility

Note: You must restart your terminal window for the installation of MacTeX CLI tools to take effect. Alternatively, Bash and Zsh users can run the command: eval "$(/usr/libexec/path_helper)"

Conflicts with: basictex, mactex-no-gui

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Trust Score 3/10

✗ Open source +0

✗ Active development +0

✗ Licensed +0

✗ No auto-updates +0

✓ Not deprecated +1

✓ Established (>1yr) +1

✓ Popular (>1K installs/mo) +1

Version History

v2026.0324

1mo ago2026.0301→2026.0324

Review

Mar 10, 2026

MacTeX is a comprehensive TeX distribution for macOS, offering a full TeX Live environment with graphical user interface applications. It is ideal for users needing professional typesetting capabilities, particularly for LaTeX documents.

Provides a complete TeX Live distribution with GUI applications for typesetting documents.

Maturity: The project is stable and maintained by the TeX Users Group, though GitHub activity is limited with the last commit in 2019.

Community: Minimal community discussion; only two Hacker News mentions from 2012.