There are many alternatives to Mou for Mac and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Typora. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ghostwriter or ReText. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Mou and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Mou are iA Writer, Hemingway Editor, Haroopad and MacDown.
A minimalist Markdown editor offering cross-platform synchronization, live preview, and seamless export/import in various formats like PDF, DOCX, and LaTeX. Features include distraction-free Focus and Typewriter modes, file management with tree and articles panels, and content organization through an outline panel.
ghostwriter is a feature-rich text editor using Markdown syntax which makes it suitable for note-taking, document redaction, simple HTML website creation and much more.
The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.
ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.
Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.
MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou.
Caret is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It stands out with its clean interface, productivity features and obsessive attention to detail.
Beautiful and professionally executed.
Byword is designed to make writing more enjoyable with Markdown on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.
Marked 2 is a previewer (not an editor) for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and other text markup languages. It updates live every time you save your document in your favorite text editor, comes with writing analysis tools, and is powerfully flexible.
Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible. For Windows, OS X & Linux.
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MacDown is a fork of MOU, so if you like MOU you'll REALLY like MacDown. Unfortunately both seem to be abandonware, so if you're a dev please consider forking MacDown and developing it! In the meantime MacDown is stable and powerful as ever as my daily driver markdown editor.