Our mission
We built the math writing tool we needed as students.
Notation shouldn’t be the hard part.
Math is difficult enough without fighting the tools you write it with. MATH Keys makes every symbol one tap, keeps the markup one click away, and compiles in your browser with nothing to install — so the writing keeps up with the thinking, whether you’re pasting one equation into a Google Doc or compiling a fifty-page paper. It is a Typst editor and a LaTeX editor. The free plan is a real plan. We think that’s how it should be.
About the founder
“The goal is the same as it was in high school: keep math the hard part.”
I built MATH Keys because writing math was slowing me down. I started writing online problem sets in high school, using Google Docs. I hadn’t learned LaTeX yet, and was tired of clicking through an equation menu for every symbol — so I made a Chrome extension that made advanced mathematical equations one tap away. Other students wanted more, so it grew: copy as LaTeX, graphing, chemistry, physics, statistics, and custom buttons for whatever a course throws at you.
I now study math at Harvard, where everything gets written in LaTeX or Typst — problem sets, papers, take-home exams. Living in these tools every day made a different gap obvious: LaTeX and Typst almost always live in separate editors, most of them built for people who already know the markup and are willing to fight the setup to get going. That’s where the cloud editor came from — a single tool that makes LaTeX and Typst approachable instead of assuming you’ve already mastered them.
What we believe
Four rules we build against
Every feature has to clear these before it ships.
01 — Notation is not a prerequisite
You should be able to write a derivative before anyone teaches you a markup language. Every symbol is one tap, and the LaTeX is right there when you want to learn it.
02 — No setup tax
No TeX distribution, no package archaeology, no local toolchain. Open a document, start writing, and watch the PDF build as you type.
03 — Meet people where they write
Homework lives in Google Docs and Slides as often as it lives in a compiled paper. The same keyboard works in both, so you never have to choose your tool before you start thinking.
04 — Built at student prices
The free plan is a real plan: 3 Typst and 3 LaTeX documents, live PDF, Math Drive, and the whole Chrome extension. Paid plans exist for unlimited documents and AI, not to hold your homework hostage.
Missing something? Tell us and we will add it
Feature requests, bug reports, and other notes are all welcome at mathkeys@gold.ly.