Alternatives to MacDown for all platforms with any license

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...

Free Mac Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Live Preview Distraction-free UI WYSIWYG Support Ad-free ... Distraction free writing Support for LaTeX Live Preview MarkDown support Native application Real-time inline preview Syntax Highlighting Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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- Discontinued Latest commit 4b1c0af on Jan 3, 2015. See https://github.com/rhiokim/haroopad
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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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...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Web
Collaborative writing Automated proofreading Distraction free writing Distraction-free UI ... Works Offline Readability integration Spell checking Writing assistance Writing suggestions Add a feature

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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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
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Byword

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

Commercial $ $ $ Mac OS X iPhone iPad
Distraction free writing Dropbox integration Works Offline Add a feature

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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...

Freemium Windows
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- 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.
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. -...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Electron / Atom Shell
Distraction free writing Distraction-free UI Add a feature

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Markdown Edit

Markdown 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...

Free Open Source Windows
Live Preview 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
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Remarkable

A fully featured markdown editor for Linux. Features include Live Preview, PDF/HTML export, MathJax support, Syntax highlighting, customizable, keyboard shortcuts, GFM...

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

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Inkdrop

The note-taking app with robust Markdown editor, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux. This app is designed to be the most convenient way to make notes in Markdown for...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone
MarkDown support Cloud sync End-to-end encryption Encrypted Notes ... Flow diagram visualisation Latex Math REST API Sequence Diagrams Share notes Support for Themes Add a feature

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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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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.
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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