MathType - Google Workspace Marketplace

MathType is the world's leading equation editor that allows you to write math notation as easily as you write text. Create and edit high-quality math equations in Google Docsâ„¢ and Google Slidesâ„¢.

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Write math formulas as easily as you write text with MathType for Google Workspaceâ„¢, the math equation editor for Google Docsâ„¢ and Google Slidesâ„¢.

MathType offers a range of powerful features to enhance your mathematical and scientific content creation:

- Symbol coverage: MathType offers over 500 symbols, supporting matrices, multiline equations, and specialized symbols, ensuring you have everything needed for any mathematical or scientific formula.

- Easy to use: Write equations with an interface that provides a user-friendly experience from day one. MathML native and LaTeX friendly.

- Handwriting Recognition: Converts handwritten formulas into clean, digital equations ready to be used in your documents.

- High-quality output: It generates perfect, high-quality images for all your equations that can be exported in various formats such as SVG, PDF, and PNG.

- ChemType: Unlock a personalized toolbar equipped with special chemistry buttons tailored for editing inorganic chemistry formulas.

- Accessibility: MathType is compliant with accessibility requirements and ensures software accessibility for people with disabilities.

- Customizable: You can customize formatting options to define the style settings required for your documents and configure how equation elements are displayed.

How it works? Just type or handwrite the equation that you need on your document within the MathType editor window, and it will be inserted into your document. Edit your equations as many times as you want just by clicking on them and going into MathType again.

Who is it for? MathType is a tool for creating high-quality mathematical and scientific content for students, educators, researchers, technical writers, editors, publishers, edtech companies, and chemists.

FREE 30-DAY TRIAL
Take advantage of the 30-day free trial to explore MathType. Just install the add-on and start writing math equations easily!

ONE SUBSCRIPTION. ALL OFFICE TOOLS INCLUDED
MathType for Office Tools is available as a yearly subscription that includes MathType for Google Workspaceâ„¢ (Google Docsâ„¢, Google Slidesâ„¢), MathType for Windows, and MathType for Microsoft 365. Buy your subscription in our store: https://store.wiris.com

If you have any questions or comments about MathType, we would love to hear from you, reach us at [email protected]

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Aaron Dvorsky

November 22, 2024

I've been using MathType for decades on Microsoft Word, so my complaint is a comparison. MathType for Google has most of the features I've come to appreciate, but there is one glaring difference for me: no keyboard shortcuts. Writing assignments and assessments for my high school students takes much longer when I have to move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse. With Google Docs being web-based, I don't know if these kinds these kinds of things are possible.

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Zenon StarÄuk

August 28, 2024

I've been using the product for ~2 years in Microsoft Word and Powerpoint 2016 under Windows 10 Pro 64bit, I use it primarily for mathematical derivations with quite complex formula manipulations. For me, it is much more reliable and less tedious in MathType than in handwriting, and better predictable than, e.g., in Mathematica. The major advantage for me is the clarity of Ctrl+C - Ctrl-V operations working well on subexpressions, the recursive applicability of all typesetting features such as sub/super-scripting, fractions, etc., and the possibility of editing and clipboard transfers in several MathType windows. I never lost a single line, it never crashed. What I am missing, however, is a richer set of character sets, a better description of integration with other editing software (e.g., my Word installation stubbornly shows 2 MathType tabs, and once had to be reinstalled). For Word or PowerPoint documents, the formulas look good, they are scalable as images and still can be edited. I know nothing about its applicability for cooperative work with different tools used by different people. The weakest point is conversion to and from LaTeX. It kind of works, but sometimes needs some tweaks, depending on the other tool used to produce or accept the LaTeX (e.g. - accepting formulas from ChatGPT). Improving this functionality would be extremely useful for enabling cooperation and safeguarding sufficient lifetime of math-containing documents; with all respect, plain text is much more likely to survive than wiris. Overall, I find it much better than what MS Office offers, much more useful for work than direct LaTeX, but I feel that the subscription-based licensing and its price have exceeded what I'd consider appropriate for such a general utility which represents just a tiny fraction of the toolbox I need for my work.

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Marc-Olivier Lessard

September 24, 2024

Honestly, it can do everything I want, but it is soooo painfully slow. Over 80% of my time using this editor is waiting for it to load. Why is opening it a 2-step action anyway? I click "Open Math Type", and then I have to click "Open Math Type" again. Also, you cannot open it by double-clicking on the equation, which is the kind of thing that have been standard in those kinds of apps since ten years ago. Awesome content, completely horrible container.

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Todd Desiato

September 22, 2024

It doesn't save my work so I can't go back to edit equations in the document. It's a toy compared to the older Mac versions.

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Peter Jung

April 23, 2024

I am not impressed with the product in conjunction with Google docs. It seems not well integrated. To start you click on the extension menu to open the editor. Then once you get ready to type an equation, you open the editor gain !?. You type the equation and insert. The opening of the editor for each equation is very, very slow. To edit an existing equation you cannot just click on it, you have to first select the equation and then click again to open the editor and wait until the window opens (very slow). Occasionally the software gets stuck opening an equation or an equation simply cannot be re-edited. My biggest surprise was that mathtype doesn't seem to work when you edit a docx file - the crown jewel capability of the google docs editor. The extension menu disappears altogether. While the equations look better when written in mathtype, I prefer the build in editor in how its integrated and speed. Editing an equation is less than a click. Another striking advantage of the build-in equation editor in google docs is that when the document is saved as a docx file and then edited with a third software such as pages, the equation is exported as "mathml" which can be edited again - mathtype equations are just images. I am very disappointed with this software. Many years ago Mathtype used to be the best equation editor there was. But this current product is not ready for prime time, at least in conjunction with google docs.

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rupert huang

August 14, 2024

Working, but counter-productive, and a weak integration. Took forever to load and is very difficult to work with in a timely fashion.

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Martie Harmon

October 17, 2024

I've been using MT for more than 10 years. I use multiple preference files to style equations for different media formats, and enjoy the minuteness with which I'm able to set fonts, spacing, etc.

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Jake Stark

November 12, 2024

It's not immediately clear that this is a paid service.

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Peter Sheppard

January 27, 2024

Typed in about 10 lines of Trig Identity stuff. All nice. Sent it back to the doc. All nice. Back into MathType Added a drawn symbol -- all my work vanished :-( Started again Typed in three Trig Identities, then Small Angle Approximations. All nice. Sent it to the doc and returned to viewing the Doc. All gone again. Only wasted about an hour and a half. Realy happy with the Product (NOT).

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Malcolm Drew

September 11, 2024

Too many 'open' buttons click and the Google doc version should be 100% free.

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