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.
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Typora AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors
The best Text Editor alternative to Typora is MarkText, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Typora and loads of them are Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text Editor alternatives to Typora are Zettlr, ghostwriter, Beaver Notes and iA Writer.
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119 MarkText alternatives
206 Zettlr alternativesUnified writing platform offering note-taking, easy citations with Zotero integration, LaTeX/Word templates, snippets, themes, dark modes, code highlighting, multi-language support, and knowledge management with Zettelkasten for seamless writing from notes to books.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Flathub
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144 ghostwriter alternativesghostwriter 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.
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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Snapcraft
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- Haiku
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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125 iA Writer alternativesThe key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.
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Clean, native Markdown editor for macOS with syntax highlighting, real-time GitHub Flavored Markdown and Mermaid diagram preview, KaTeX math support, synchronized side-by-side editing, QuickLook integration, PDF export, format shortcuts, and no subscriptions.
85 StackEdit alternativesFull-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
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- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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- Discontinued
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- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
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.
acreom is an actionable personal knowledge base for developers. It helps developers ship faster by centralizing personal and team context in one place.
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- Freemium
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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146 Ulysses alternativesUlysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.
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52 marka.md alternativesA native macOS markdown editor specialized for AI context management. Live editor on the left (codemirror 6), rendered preview on the right (markdown-it + shiki + mermaid). Minimal Chrome, full catppuccin + matcha themes, macOS vibrancy, orange octopus mascot. ~10 MB bundle.
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79 novelWriter alternativesnovelWriter is a Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavor of Markdown that supports a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis and cross-referencing between files.
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Very similar to Typora, but open source. Moreover it seems that Typora will not be free when the beta ends, while Mark Text will be free forever.