# Overleaf textarea

> This plugin displays your text in a textarea so you can use spellcheck plugins like Grammarly.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/overleaf-textarea](https://chrome-stats.com/d/overleaf-textarea)

## Overview

- **ID:** `overleaf-textarea`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Robin
- **Category:** language-support
- **Daily users:** 479
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 4.56 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-05-17
- **First published:** 2020-10-28
- **Size:** 81 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/overleaf-textarea/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/robindijkhof/overleaf-textarea](https://github.com/robindijkhof/overleaf-textarea)

## Description

**Overleaf Textarea** is a Chrome extension designed to improve your writing experience on Overleaf by enabling advanced spellchecking using tools like Grammarly. Overleaf's native spellcheck is limited and cannot compete with dedicated grammar checkers. This extension extracts the plain text from your Overleaf editor, filtering out commands, and displays it in a textarea overlay positioned over the PDF preview.

By using a textarea, it allows popular spellcheck plugins such as Grammarly to function seamlessly. Any changes made within the textarea, either manually or by these plugins, are intelligently merged back into the Overleaf editor, ensuring your document remains updated with correct grammar and spelling. Simplify your workflow and boost your document quality with this efficient tool.

## Rankings

- #5,221 — Overall
- #221 — Language Support
- #35 — grammar
- #52 — overlay
- #74 — cover
- #87 — speech to text

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `https://overleaf.com/`
- `https://www.overleaf.com/`
- `*://*.overleaf.com/*`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `*.overleaf.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/overleaf-textarea)