A simple, lightweight Markdown viewer and text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Canada
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Ferrite Alternatives
Apps similar to Ferrite include Zettlr, which is free and open source. Other options are Typora, SiYuan, ghostwriter and Clearly Markdown. You're spoiled for choice with Text Editors like Ferrite: we list more than 50 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and iPhone.
Alternatives list
107 novelWriter alternativesnovelWriter is a Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavor of Markdown that supports a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Qt
- Python
Frset is an all-in-one macOS productivity app combining clipboard management, screenshots, OCR, translation, AI shortcuts, and useful utilities in one place.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
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211 Roam Research alternativesAs easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
United States
111 Quoll Writer alternativesFocus on your words not the interface. Quoll Writer is a writing application that helps you focus on your words. Clean and uncluttered. Feature rich. Features are where you would expect them to be.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Australia
24 Apostrophe alternativesApostrophe is a simple GNU/Linux Markdown editor built with the GTK+ framework.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- GNOME
- Linux Mobile
- United States
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Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- United States
119 WriteMonkey alternativesWritemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
Slovenia
EU
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CrabPad is a fast, free Markdown editor built with Rust. Local-first, keyboard-driven, with Zen Mode, Command Palette, live preview, and support for KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and GFM. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Poland- EU
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79 Notable alternativesNotable is a cross-platform note app. Notes are plain Markdown files, their metadata is stored as Markdown front matter. Attachments are also plain files, if you attach a picture.jpg to a note everything about it will be preserved, and it will remain accessible like any other...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Electron / Atom Shell
Italy- EU
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89 ReText alternativesReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
355 Notepack alternativesPrivacy oriented, without vendor lock in note organizer, todo list desktop application. Work offline with text, markdown and pdf files.
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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