Murfy bets an AI-native LaTeX editor can take on Overleaf

Murfy AI is an AI-native online LaTeX editor from Murple, Inc., a startup in Seongnam, South Korea, positioned as a modern Overleaf alternative for academic researchers. It combines real-time multi-author editing with AI agents that fix compile errors, review manuscripts, turn screenshots into LaTeX and generate slides. Its 2026-08-30 Product Hunt launch earned a top-5 badge, ranking #5 with 186 upvotes in AIToolly's snapshot.

The founder, who posts on Product Hunt as murfy_founder, says the goal is to let researchers focus on ideas instead of formatting. The two headline agents target the pain points of LaTeX work: a compile-error agent reads the red build log and proposes corrections as accept-or-reject diffs, and a paper-review agent produces the kind of review a venue would write minus the verdict — eight reviewer lenses, seven scoring dimensions, cross-checked by three models — free for the first review.

Beyond agents, Murfy turns screenshots of tables, equations or algorithms into LaTeX in about three seconds, generates Beamer slides, ships templates for NeurIPS, ICML, IEEE and ACL, and imports Overleaf projects from ZIP. The free Starter tier includes unlimited projects and collaborators with 1,000 monthly AI credits; Pro raises that to 20,000 credits with the fastest compilation and full version history, and an Enterprise tier is custom-priced with academic discounts on request.

The pricing bet is per-credit rather than per-seat, so adding co-authors never raises the bill. Coverage of the launch notes the product is young and still being polished, and the founder's community thread reports compile speeds around 2x Overleaf's paid tier, with labs at Ajou and Korea University describing a move away from the incumbent.