Clearly Markdown
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Clean, native Markdown editor for macOS with syntax highlighting, real-time GitHub Flavored Markdown and Mermaid diagram preview, KaTeX math support, synchronized side-by-side editing, QuickLook integration, PDF export, format shortcuts, and no subscriptions.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Syntax Highlighting
- No registration required
- Support for MarkDown
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Live Preview
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- Support for Hotkeys
- Markdown preview
- Katex
- Sits in the MenuBar
- Global hotkey
- Side-by-Side View
- Export to PDF
- Mermaid support
- QuickLook File Preview
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
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- POX added Text Editors as a feature to Clearly Markdown
- POX updated Clearly Markdown
POX added Clearly Markdown as alternative to Typora, ghostwriter, Marknote and Ferrite- POX added Clearly Markdown
Clearly Markdown information
Developed by
Josh Pigford Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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- English
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What is Clearly Markdown?
A clean, native markdown editor for macOS. Write with syntax highlighting, preview instantly, and get back to what matters. No Electron, no subscriptions, no bloat.
Features:
- Syntax highlighting — headings, bold, italic, links, code blocks, and more
- Instant preview — rendered GitHub Flavored Markdown, including Mermaid diagrams and KaTeX math
- Frontmatter support — YAML frontmatter is formatted cleanly in both editor and preview
- Side-by-side — edit and preview simultaneously with synchronized scrolling
- PDF export — export to PDF or print directly from the app
- Format shortcuts — Cmd+B, Cmd+I, Cmd+K for bold, italic, and links
- Scratchpad — menubar app with a global hotkey for capturing quick notes without opening a document
- QuickLook — preview .md files right in Finder
- Light & Dark — follows system appearance or set manually