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Abricotine

A markdown editor for desktop. Created by brrd

Free Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Electron / Atom Shell

Abricotine is an open-source markdown editor for desktop.

In Abricotine, you can preview your document directly in the text editor rather than in a side pane.

- Write in markdown (or GFM) and export your documents in HTML,
- Preview text elements (such as headers, images, math, embedded videos, to-do lists...) while you type,
- Display document table of content in the side pane,
- Display syntax highlighting for code,
- Show helpers, anchors and hidden characters,
- Copy formatted HTML in the clipboard,
- Write in a distraction-free fullscreen view,
- Manage and beautify markdown tables,
- Search and replace text,
- And more...... More Info »

Link to official Abricotine site

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Distraction free writing Distraction-free UI Add a feature

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distraction-free-writing markdown markdown-edit markdown-editor no-distraction text-editor writing-editor

Abricotine was added by brrd in Jan 2016 and the latest update was made in Aug 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Mar 2019 There is a history of all activites on Abricotine in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Abricotine or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Inline preview as you type

Preview images, math formulas, todo lists and iframes (such as Youtube videos)

Code coloration

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Abricotine Comments

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preview still shows source code

Comment by buckee

about Abricotine · Jun 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

The Editable Preview Mode is nice, but it still displays most of the source code. For example, hashes, asterisks, backticks, etc. Only special formats like Task List is fully rendered without source code.

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