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Typora Alternatives
Apps similar to Typora include Joplin, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Zettlr, HelixNotes, Beaver Notes and SiYuan. There's no shortage of Note-taking Tools like Typora, with more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and iPhone.
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111 MarkdownPad alternativesMarkdownPad 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 toolb.
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- Windows
- United States
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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.
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- Mac
Taiwan
34 Octarine alternativesOctarine is a fast, lightweight tool for writing, planning, and organizing — in Markdown that stays yours.
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- Mac
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Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search.
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- Mac
- United States
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Super-clean writing space with a lot of configurability that stays out of sight when you don’t need it.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
+9
Inspire is a clone of Ulysses for Windows, with many of the core features but not all.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
China
79 Zotero Better Notes alternativesEverything about note management. All in Zotero.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
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- Zotero
A modern macOS markdown editor - themeable, tabs, sidebar, GitHub flavored markdown, exporting, latex and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
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- Mac
Australia
Tinta is a fast, lightweight markdown viewer and reader for Windows, built with Direct2D and DirectWrite for hardware-accelerated text rendering. It's a single portable executable under 1 MB that starts in about 200 ms — no Electron, no bundled browser, no installer.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
Croatia
EU
Prism is for quick thoughts and links. It feels like texting, rather than writing in a document. Capture easily, organize with tags, develop ideas across threads, review to keep only what matters. Free — unlimited notes, AI tags, and sync.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
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Blank is a minimalistic, opinionated markdown editor made for writing. It works purely keyboard-based. Its minimalistic UI and WYSIWYG helps you stay focused on what really matters: content. Save to markdown or export your files to PDF.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
