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.

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Markdown Edit is a Windows desktop CommonMark (a.k.a. Markdown) editor with an emphasis on content and keyboard shortcuts. There is minimal window chrome and most functions are accessed through keyboard shortcuts. There is no main menu, status bar, tabbed windows or other distractions.

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The Best 64 Markdown Edit 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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Write!

Write! is a distraction-free text editor that boosts your productivity.

Commercial

Cloud sync MarkDown support Distraction free writing Distraction free UI Reading list Software compartmentalization
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Markdown

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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WriteMonkey

Writemonkey is a cross-platform zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

Customizable Portable MarkDown support Distraction free writing Distraction free UI Fullscreen support
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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
50 Like

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
49 Like

Byword

Byword is designed to make writing more enjoyable with Markdown on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Commercial

Works Offline Distraction free writing Dropbox integration
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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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MacDown

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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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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UberWriter

With UberWriter it’s simple to write beautiful documents in Markdown. Features include 'focus mode' that highlights your last sentence and gives you a typewriter-esque feel, out of the box spellcheck, and a very clean interface.

Free Open Source Linux

Distraction free UI Syntax Highlighting
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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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(Un)colored

Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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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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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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The Best 64 Markdown Edit Alternatives

Atom

Write!

Markdown

WriteMonkey

MarkdownPad

StackEdit

Haroopad

Byword

ReText

ghostwriter

MarkPad

MacDown

Abricotine

UberWriter

Inkdrop

(Un)colored

CuteMarkEd

MWeb

Classeur

Rentry.co

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