[1][2] It partners with a wide range of scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates, and direct submission links.

[12][13] They launched a beta version of Overleaf on 16 January 2014, at the first #FuturePub event, held at the British Library in London.

[16] Overleaf was selected as one of the ten teams who participated to the 2013 Summer's Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) accelerator programme.

[29] Overleaf has been discussed as a tool for writing scientific publications in Nature,[30] Science,[31] Red Hat's opensource.com[32] and the German IT magazine Heise Online.

[33] "In 2017, CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, adopted Overleaf as its preferred collaborative authoring platform.