MacDown Alternatives and Similar Software

Typora

Typora will give you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other unnecessary distractions. Replace them with a real live preview feature to help you concentrate the content itself. It has features of: 1. Markdown support including tables, code fences with syntax highlight, LaTeX, Table of Contents. 2. Cross-platform. 3. The real live preview and WYSIWYG features. 4.

Free Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell

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Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad Chrome Firefox

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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. ghostwriter provides a relaxing, distraction-free writing environment, whether your masterpiece be that next blog post, your school paper, or your NaNoWriMo novel.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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Haroopad

Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did. Haroopad gives you same experiences in editing regardless of the platform you are working on. It runs on all three major operating systems—Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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Hemingway Editor

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. The Hemingway Editor for Mac and PC highlights common errors. Use it to catch wordy sentences, adverbs, passive voice, and dull, complicated words.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Web

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Abricotine

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell

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Moeditor

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

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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ReText

ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview. It is written in Python using Qt libraries, able to run on any platforms (Linux and BSD are officially supported).

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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Inkdrop

Inkdrop enables hackers to keep track of their daily progress when it comes to hacking in one convenient spot without having to rely on traditional word processors. Inkdrop features support for #Markdown with the ability to do code syntax highlighting as well as built-in syncing capabilities. Users can organize their progress in a clean, uniform way that's focused on ensuring that the information is easy to work through and can be read uniformly.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone

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Byword

Byword is designed to make writing more enjoyable with Markdown on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad

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MarkdownPad

MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows. Features: LivePreview : Instantly see how your documents look in HTML as you create them. Easy formatting with keyboard shortcuts. Markdown formatting can be applied (and removed) with handy keyboard shortcuts and toolbar buttons.

• Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 2.5, released in December 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Freemium Windows

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Markdown Edit

Markdown Edit is a Windows desktop CommonMark (a.k.a. Markdown) editor with an emphasis on content and keyboard shortcuts. There is minimal window chrome and most functions are accessed through keyboard shortcuts. There is no main menu, status bar, tabbed windows or other distractions.

Free Open Source Windows

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Remarkable

Remarkable is a free, fully featured markdown editor for Linux. Features include Live Preview, PDF/HTML export, MathJax support, Syntax highlighting, customizable, keyboard shortcuts, GFM, images, tables and much more.It is a powerful markdown with many advanced features like live preview, syntax highlighting, export to PDF and HTML, Github Flavored Markdown, checklists, images, checklists and loads more.

Free Open Source Linux

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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 You can also: Import and save files from GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive Drag and drop files into Dillinger Export documents as Markdown, HTML and PDF 100% open source on GitHub and free of rights (MIT licence). You can host you own version.

Free Open Source Web

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MWeb

MWeb can handle professional-level markdown with support for markdown extensions. It provides publishing to various social networks and blogging formats, as well as various preview themes. It also has two work modes: external, which allows the addition of external folders; and library, designed for note-taking and static blogging. Features: * Full GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) supported * Publish/Update to Wordpress, Metaweblog API services, Wordpress.com, Evernote, Blogger, Tumblr.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

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Texts

TEXTS is rich editor for plain text. - Write structured documents. - Separate Content from Formatting. - Store in Markdown. - Publish to many formats.

Free Mac Windows

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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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LightPaper

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 tasks, Jekyll rendering, and more. Whether you are a professional writer, a blogger, a developer, a scholar, or a student, LightPaper has you covered for all your writing and note taking needs.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

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Madoko

Madoko is a fast markdown processor for writing professional articles, books, manuals, webpages and presentations, with a focus on simplicity and plain text readability. With Madoko you can write complex documents completely in markdown and get beautiful PDF and HTML output.

Free Linux Web

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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 and sleek user interface. With UberWriter it’s simple to write beautiful documents in Markdown. Features include 'focus mode' that highlights your last sentence and gives you a typewriter-esque feel, out of the box spellcheck, and a very clean interface.

Free Open Source Linux

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MarkRight

MarkRight is a simple but very efficient Markdown editor built using Electron and ClojureScript. It uses a dual pane interface that lets you focus on the task of writing, while providing a live preview so you can instantly see the results.

• Discontinued The development of the project is currently frozen. Last version, 0.1.11, released in June 2016, can be still downloaded from GitHub.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell

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Pine

A modern macOS markdown editor - themeable, tabs, sidebar, GitHub flavored markdown, exporting, latex and more. Features: * Themeable * Math support (LaTeX subset) * GitHub Flavored Markdown * GitHub Emoji support * LaTeX, Markdown and HTML autocomplete * Local image support * Toggleable split view (horizontal and vertical split) * Full screen support * Tab support * Folder support * Ability to create custom .css themes * Ability to share .

Free Open Source Mac

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PileMD

PileMd has a really beautiful Markdown Editor, looks like Preview. It's like a RichText Editor but it's actually Markdown, and it works like a word processor, complete with Undo/Redo histories, list completion and clickable urls. Most of the features have keymaps too, to keep the focus on writing.

Free Mac Windows Linux

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TextNut

Markdown is good because it is plain text, you can open and edit it anywhere and anytime. It can be converted to various format documents easily. Markdown is bad because you have to remember the markdown syntax. With TextNut, you don’t have this worry. You write just like with a common rich format editor. TextNut will convert them into markdown on-the-fly.

Free Mac iPhone iPad

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Marxico

Marxico is a delicate Markdown editor for Evernote. With reliable storage and sync powered by Evernote, Marxico offers greate writing experience. Versatile - supporting code highlight, LaTeX & flow charts, inserting images & attachments by all means. Exquisite - neat but powerful editor, featuring offline docs, live preview, and offering the desktop client and offline Chrome App.

Freemium Mac Windows Chrome Evernote

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