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
+1
MarkdownPad Alternatives
MarkdownPad has been discontinued. Similar apps include Typora. It's paid, but ghostwriter and MarkText are free. Other options are Clearly Markdown, Marknote, Ferrite and Rentry.co. Text Editors like MarkdownPad are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and iPhone.
Alternatives list
Native macOS tool for previewing Markdown and markup files, supporting local and iCloud documents, real-time updates, writing statistics, grammar and spelling checks, sentence complexity analysis, grade level, readability, export options, and easy workflow integration.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Setapp
- Mozilla Firefox
United States
+3
A live editable Markdown editor that lets you add cells like Excel. You can think of Tenno as a mix of Word and Excel with a touch of Obsidian, Markdown and JavaScript.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Caret is a Markdown editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. It stands out with its clean interface, productivity features and obsessive attention to detail.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Slovenia
EU
+1
98 Dillinger alternativesDillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
- United States
104 Gingko Writer alternativesGingko Writer is a text editor that uses a tree-like structure to help you organize and visualize your thoughts, making it easier to outline, draft, and refine complex texts.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- United States
75 MacDown alternativesMacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou.
Platforms
- Mac
Taiwan
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
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
China
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- United States
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.
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
South Korea
+4
