Zen by Unit is a free, minimal, fast, private writing app. Just open and use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
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Blank Slate Alternatives
Sites and apps similar to Blank Slate include Typora. It's paid, but ghostwriter and Clearly Markdown are free. Other options are MarkText, FocusWriter, Rentry.co and marka.md. You're spoiled for choice with Text Editors like Blank Slate: we list more than 50 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad.
Alternatives list
- 85 Zen Editor alternatives
MdCharm is a wiki editor written in Qt which supports markdown. It has features like live preview, pdf/html/odt exporting, opening directory as project, custom css, code syntax highlighting and much more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Elegant Markdown Editor (EME) is an intuitive Markdown text editor with distraction-free mode, auto-sync for GitHub Gist, math typesetting support and more.
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible. For Windows, OS X & Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Global
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LightPaper lets you write your documents/articles/blogs using powerful features such as markdown, folder navigator, real and live preview, shadow notes, multi-tabs, custom styles, distraction free mode, syntax highlighting, math rendering, full GFM support including GitHub...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United States
WordMark is a lightweight editor for markdown writers. You can easily publish posts to your blogs via WordMark including Wordpress, Ghost, Medium, Blogger, Github (Jekyll), Evernote, and so on.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
China
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52 Calmly Writer alternativesCalmly Writer is a professional text editor designed to focus on what you want to tell, with a simple, unobtrusive and distraction-free user interface.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Chrome OS
102 Deepdwn alternativesDeepdwn is a markdown editing suite, designed to organize and edit collections of markdown files.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
A modern macOS markdown editor - themeable, tabs, sidebar, GitHub flavored markdown, exporting, latex and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
Australia
122 Cold Turkey Writer alternativesCold Turkey Writer won't let you quit until you finish your work. Like, literally will not quit.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Canada
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76 Markdown Edit alternativesMarkdown Edit is a Windows desktop Markdown editor with an emphasis on content and keyboard shortcuts. There is minimal window chrome and most functions are accessed through keyboard shortcuts.
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
52 Glow alternativesGlow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
