Lattics
Summary
Most writing tools force you to choose between a citation manager, a knowledge base, and a word processor — and then spend your afternoons copy-pasting between three open tabs. Lattics is built for the researcher who refuses to accept that split.
Lattics combines card-based knowledge management, Zettelkatten-style linking, Zotero-synced citations, PDF translation with layout preservation, and AI writing assistance inside a single desktop app that stores everything locally first. The card and graph system — mind map, story plot, aerial view — lets you structure non-linear projects without fighting a linear document. Where it breaks: there is no API, no self-hosting option, and no agentic pipeline to build on top of. Teams who need to feed outputs into automated workflows or share a live editing environment will hit that wall fast. The tool is built for individual researchers and writers, and it does not pretend otherwise.
Bottom line: Pick Lattics when you are a solo researcher writing a thesis or a novelist untangling a plot — plan a different stack the moment your team needs real-time co-editing or programmatic access to your knowledge base.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Price
- $5.99/month or $35.99/year for Pro
- Free Tier
- 10 projects, 15 documents/nodes per project, limited exports and OCR/translation
Basic
Limited projects, nodes, exports, and OCR/translation quotas
- 10 projects
- 15 nodes per project
- Limited exports
Pro
Unlimited projects, nodes, full features, and higher quotas
- Unlimited everything
- Full AI and export features
- Custom templates
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Local-first storage with optional third-party cloud sync, so your research data does not live on a vendor server by default — which matters for institutions with data residency requirements.
- Zotero-synced citation management with auto-generated bibliography formatting, so you stop manually hunting down citation styles at the end of a chapter.
- PDF translation that preserves the original layout, so the table on page 14 of a German paper stays readable as a table rather than becoming a wall of reformatted text.
- Bi-directional linking across articles, cards, and files, so tracing how an idea evolved across your notes takes seconds instead of a manual search through folders.
- LaTeX equation support plus formula and table OCR, so researchers working with mathematical or chemical content do not need a separate equation editor bolted on the side.
Cons
Sign in to edit- No API exists, so any team wanting to pipe Lattics content into an external workflow — a publishing system, a downstream AI agent, a reporting tool — cannot do it programmatically. The only exit paths are manual exports to PDF, Word, Markdown, or ePub.
- Real-time collaborative editing is absent. Two people working on the same document simultaneously is not a supported workflow. When a research team of three or more needs a shared living document, Lattics stops working as the shared source of truth and someone starts duplicating content in a Google Doc — at which point Lattics becomes a personal scratch pad rather than the team's system, and teams in that position move to Notion or Obsidian Publish for the shared layer.
- No self-hosted or on-premise deployment option exists, which means institutions with strict data governance policies that prohibit third-party desktop apps accessing institutional content cannot deploy Lattics at the org level — individual researchers can use it, but IT cannot sanction it.
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About
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-23T06:43:26.289Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Researchers and students handling citations and literature
- Writers using Zettelkasten or non-linear methods
- Users needing PDF translation and OCR in multiple languages
- Professionals creating reports with data visualizations
- Anyone prioritizing local storage and privacy
What it does well
- Academic paper and thesis writing with citations
- Building second-brain knowledge bases from notes and PDFs
- Novel and report writing with timelines and mind maps
- Research data visualization via interactive charts and tables
- Zotero-synced literature management and annotation
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Lattics free?
- Lattics has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades (paid plans from $5.99/month or $35.99/year for Pro). You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Lattics open source?
- No — Lattics is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does Lattics support?
- Lattics is available on: macOS, Windows.
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Academic writers and researchers routinely patch together a reference manager, a note-taking app, a PDF reader, and a writing environment — and then lose time every session to context-switching between them. Lattics collapses that stack into one desktop application. The core workflow moves from PDF import and OCR through annotation and card creation, into a networked knowledge base with bi-directional links and hierarchical tags, then out through an editor that auto-generates citations and bibliographies in standard formats. AI assistance is embedded at the right-click level — select text to trigger translation, proofreading, rewriting, or a conversational consultation — and AI-generated content can be edited directly with changes tracked.
The differentiating feature is the graph layer. Three distinct views — mind map, story plot timeline, and aerial overview — let writers who think spatially structure their work before committing it to prose. The timeline is functional beyond fiction: the vendor page describes it covering historical research and project management. Equations render via LaTeX syntax, and OCR accurately captures formulas, tables, and images from scanned sources, which matters when your source material is a 1990s chemistry paper photographed at a library. Interactive charts and table templates handle financial and research data presentation without requiring a separate spreadsheet export.
Lattics fits a specific profile well: the solo researcher, student, or novelist who works primarily on one machine, wants local data ownership, and needs citation and knowledge management without stitching apps together. It fits that profile until collaboration enters the picture. There is no real-time co-editing, no API to connect Lattics to an external pipeline, and no self-hosted option for institutional deployment. Cloud sync is described by the vendor as optional and third-party — local storage is the primary model. Teams expecting to build automated research pipelines or share a living knowledge base across five contributors will need to look elsewhere.