Native macOS Markdown reader and editor offering Document, Split, and Source views, Finder integration, customizable themes, real-time file tracking, and broad Markdown rendering.


Native macOS Markdown reader and editor offering Document, Split, and Source views, Finder integration, customizable themes, real-time file tracking, and broad Markdown rendering.


Just say whatever’s on your mind. Cleft will take your voice, and turn it into beautiful organized notes. Share and export at the click of a button to all your favorite apps.



This program is a structured notetaking application based on GTK+ 3. Write your notes in instantly-formatted Markdown, organise them in a tree of folders that can be instantly navigated from within the program, and add hand-drawn notes by mouse, touchscreen or digitiser.


A simple, lightweight Markdown viewer and text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.




HedgeDoc (fcommunity-driven fork of CodiMD) is an open-source collaborative markdown editor. With HedgeDoc you can easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go.






Secure digital journaling across devices with media support, timeline and calendar features, Google Drive sync, import/export options, personalization, and privacy controls.




Q is a writing and memory tool that uses semantic search instead of folders. It allows markdown formatting on any device, provides math evaluations, and adds punctuation.




A live editable Markdown editor that lets you add cells like Excel. You can think of Tenno as a mix of Word and Excel with a touch of Obsidian, Markdown and JavaScript.

A local-first Markdown workspace that opens real folders in your browser and saves changes directly to .md files on disk.






Grayslate is a free, open-source desktop scratchpad for developers. It recognizes pasted code and data, suggests useful transformations, automatically chooses filenames and extensions, and saves new slates locally as you type.




Inkdrop is an AI-native Markdown note-taking app for developers, available on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, with end-to-end encrypted sync.








Free open-source Markdown editor for Mac supporting syntax highlighting, privacy by design, lightweight 4 MB install, customization via scripts, and Shortcuts integration.



Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor.

myBase is a unique free-form database software that allows entry of unstructured text, webpages, images, documents, emails and even arbitrary files without regard to length or format. All information is automatically compressed and stored in the tree structured outline form.




Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search.




Be more productive with this advanced, elegant and simple notes taking app and easy clipboard manager.




MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou.



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.




A professional list-making tool. Minimalist, keyboard-centric online outliner and task management application. Free sharing, unlimited lists, free import and export. Markdown and code support. Good for geeks 🤓 and keyboard lovers 💻.




SXMac is a light, notes like app that can be used as a rich text editor, markdown editor and preview, code editor with more than 100 supported languages. If you need specific files or anything else in one place.




MindForger is a modern, free, open-source, privacy-focused and performance-driven Markdown IDE for creating, editing, and managing all types of notes.


