Caret

Premium Markdown Editor.

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Caret is a Markdown editor with a focus on simplicity and productivity.

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Minimalistic Support for Themes Distraction free writing Support for LaTeX

The Best 38 Caret Alternatives

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Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century. At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Electron / Atom Shell

Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Themes Distraction free UI Interior Design Syntax Highlighting Community based Minimap Modular System Autocompletion GitHub integration Plugin API GIT support Code completion Gitlab integration Multiple cursors Package Control Plugins Feature Fuzzy Finder Hackable Integrated Development Environment Support for Multiple programming languages Separated workspaces Support for NodeJS Unit Testing
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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 with keyboard shortcuts.

Freemium Windows
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StackEdit

StackEdit is a free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.

Free Open Source Chrome OS Web

Works Offline Google Drive integration WYSIWYG Support Dropbox integration Tumblr integration
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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, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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ReText

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
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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 visit John Gruber’s website at https://daringfireball.net/ .

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Portable Spell checking Distraction free writing Syntax Highlighting Fullscreen support Writing statistics Live Preview Support for Large File Stay Focused
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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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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 through keyboard shortcuts.

Free Open Source Windows
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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
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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 your daily hacking.

Commercial

Cloud sync MarkDown support Support for Themes Share notes Sequence Diagrams Flow diagram visualisation REST API Latex Math
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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, images, tables and much more.

Free Open Source Linux

Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting Live Preview
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Marked

Marked takes Markdown text–a simple syntax you can learn in minutes–and turns it into beautiful documents for you.

Commercial Mac OS X
7 Like

Minimalist Markdown Editor

This is the simplest and slickest Markdown editor. Just write Markdown and see what it looks like as you type. The Minimalist Markdown Editor also comes with one-click HTML conversion and other discreet gems.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Google Chrome extension
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CuteMarkEd

A Qt-based, free and open source markdown editor with live HTML preview, math expressions, code and markdown syntax highlighting.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Portable Lightweight
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MWeb

MWeb can handle professional-level markdown with support for markdown extensions. It provides publishing to various social networks and blogging formats, as well as various preview themes.

Commercial
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Classeur

Start writing notes, docs, and blogs quickly using Markdown.

Freemium Web
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Markdown Here

Google Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird extension that lets you write email in Markdown and render it before sending.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome Firefox Thunderbird
6 Like

Rentry.co

Pastebin service with markdown support, preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.

Free Windows Linux Android iPhone Web Mac Console Terminal

MarkDown support Lightweight Distraction free writing Anonymity Live Preview Command Line support Command line interface Tab preview
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SmartDown

A zen and efficient MarkDown editor for Windows - Integrated library: All your files in the same place with Cloud (OneDrive, Dropbox, ...

Commercial Windows
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TextNut

TextNut will convert your edits into markdown on-the-fly. If you are familiar with Markdown, it is add-on, with a powerful markdown editing mode.

Free Mac OS X iPhone iPad

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