Alternatives to iA Writer for all platforms with Open Source License

FocusWriter

FocusWriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as possible in your work. The program autosaves your progress, and reloads...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Customizable Distraction-free UI Auto-saving Distraction free writing ... Fullscreen support Multiple languages Distraction-free UI Portable Skin customization Tabbed interface Writing statistics Add a feature

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ghostwriter

ghostwriter is a Windows and Linux text editor for Markdown, which is a plain text markup format created by John Gruber. For more information about Markdown, please...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Distraction free writing Fullscreen support Support for Large File Lightweight ... Live Preview Portable Spell checking Stay Focused Syntax Highlighting Writing statistics Add a feature

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(Un)colored

Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
MarkDown support Add a feature

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Moeditor

Moeditor - Your all-purpose markdown editor. Built with Electron .

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
No features added Add a feature

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Mark Text

Mark Text is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It is a concise text editor, dedicated to improving your editing efficiency.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
MarkDown support Distraction free writing Clean design Dark theme ... Distraction-free UI Real-time inline preview Stay Focused Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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UberWriter

Uberwriter is a GTK+ based distraction free Markdown editor, mainly developed by Wolf Vollprecht. It uses pandoc as backend for markdown parsing and offers a very clean...

Free Open Source Linux
Distraction-free UI Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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- Discontinued The last update to UberWriter's website was in 2012. The latest release on its Launchpad page was also in 2012, and bug reports are not being answered. May have trouble installing its binary release on recent versions of Ubuntu.
MarkPad

MarkPad is a Text editor for writing in MarkDown-Syntax. It will display the parsed and styled result to the right side of the plain text on the left.

Free Open Source Windows
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Dillinger

Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor. Type some Markdown on the left See HTML in the right ...

Free Open Source Web
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PyRoom

PyRoom is a free editor that stays out your way - and keeps other things out of your way, too. As a fullscreen editor without buttons, widgets, formatting options, menus...

Free Open Source Linux
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- Discontinued The last entry on the dev blog dates from 2010.
VOoM

created by Vlad Irnov script type utility description VOoM (Vim Outliner of Markups) is a plugin for Vim that emulates a two-pane text outliner. Home...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
MarkDown support Text editing Add a feature

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Zettlr

Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Cloud sync Dark theme Export to HTML File-organization ... File-search Integrated Search Latex Math Lightweight MarkDown support Export to PDF Add a feature

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KoalaWriter

Koalawriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free plain text editor with customizable background images and ambient music. Like its Mac OS counterpart Ommwriter, its...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux
Distraction free writing Distraction-free UI Add a feature

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- Discontinued Last commit dates from 2010, and the last issue (still marked as new) dates from 2013, without an answer.
dType

dType is a lightweight distraction-free text editor for Android. It features a minimalistic interface and an original export/save system. It’s a quick-to-load...

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet
Distraction free writing Distraction-free UI Add a feature

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- Discontinued Latest commit 532b9fc on Aug 17, 2013. See https://github.com/wswld/dtype
marave

Inspired by ommwriter and other similar projects, marave (it means "nothing" or "it doesn't matter" in guaraní) aims to be a simple, clean...

Free Open Source Linux
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MiniNote

A simple Markdown note-taking editor.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted
MarkDown support Add a feature

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