MarkdownPad AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors for Mac

MarkdownPad is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac Text Editor alternative is Typora. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ghostwriter or Mark Text. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to MarkdownPad and many of them are Text Editors available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac Text Editor alternatives to MarkdownPad are Caret Markdown Editor, ReText, MacDown and Haroopad.

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  1. Typora icon
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    A minimalist Markdown editor offering cross-platform synchronization, live preview, and seamless export/import in various formats like PDF, DOCX, and LaTeX. Features include distraction-free Focus and Typewriter modes, file management with tree and articles panels, and content organization through an outline panel.

    178 Typora alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron
     
  2. ghostwriter icon
     110 likes

    ghostwriter is a feature-rich text editor using Markdown syntax which makes it suitable for note-taking, document redaction, simple HTML website creation and much more.

    138 ghostwriter alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
     
  3. Mark Text icon
     120 likes

    Open-source Markdown editor on Mac, Windows, and Linux offering real-time preview, clean interface, and various themes. Supports math expressions, exports HTML/PDF, allows image pasting, and more.

    107 Mark Text alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Caret is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It stands out with its clean interface, productivity features and obsessive attention to detail.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. ReText icon
     49 likes

    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. MacDown icon
     23 likes

    MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou.

    57 MacDown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Haroopad icon
     69 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. MarkEdit icon
     4 likes

    Free open-source Markdown editor for macOS with syntax highlighting, privacy-focused operation, lightweight 4 MB installer, native look and feel, AppleScript and Shortcuts support, QuickLook preview, theme customization, script extensibility, and rapid large file handling.

    13 MarkEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
     
  9. Ferrite icon
     4 likes

    Fast, native text editor supporting Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML with live preview, syntax highlighting, Mermaid diagrams, CSV/TSV viewing, collapsible trees, Git integration, regex find/replace, customizable themes, zen mode, and multi-language support.

    52 Ferrite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10. Elegant Markdown Editor (EME) is an intuitive Markdown text editor with distraction-free mode, auto-sync for GitHub Gist, math typesetting support and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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