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What are Markdown Editors?
Markdown editors are software tools that allow users to create and edit content using the Markdown markup language, which is designed to be a simple way to format text for the web. These editors provide a user-friendly interface for writing structured text with formatting like headings, links, lists, and images, without requiring complex HTML coding. Many Markdown editors offer live previews of the formatted content as it's being written, helping users visualize how the final output will look. These tools often support exporting documents to various formats, such as HTML or PDF, and integrate with other tools like version control or content management systems. Markdown editors are popular for writing documentation, blogs, notes, and technical content due to their simplicity and efficiency. Compare and read user reviews of the best Markdown Editors currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Visual Studio Code
Microsoft
VSCode: Code editing. Redefined. Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere. Go beyond syntax highlighting and autocomplete with IntelliSense, which provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules. Debug code right from the editor. Launch or attach to your running apps and debug with break points, call stacks, and an interactive console. Working with Git and other SCM providers has never been easier. Review diffs, stage files, and make commits right from the editor. Push and pull from any hosted SCM service. Want even more features? Install extensions to add new languages, themes, debuggers, and to connect to additional services. Extensions run in separate processes, ensuring they won't slow down your editor. Learn more about extensions. With Microsoft Azure you can deploy and host your React, Angular, Vue, Node, Python (and more!) sites, store and query relational and document based data, and scale with serverless computing. -
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Atom
GitHub
Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron, and based on everything we love about our favorite editors. We designed it to be deeply customizable, but still approachable using the default configuration. A text editor is at the core of a developer’s toolbox, but it doesn't usually work alone. Work with Git and GitHub directly from Atom with the GitHub package. Create new branches, stage and commit, push and pull, resolve merge conflicts, view pull requests and more—all from within your editor. The GitHub package is already bundled with Atom, so you're ready to go! Atom works across operating systems. Use it on OS X, Windows, or Linux. Search for and install new packages or create your own right from Atom. Atom helps you write code faster with a smart and flexible autocomplete. Easily browse and open a single file, a whole project, or multiple projects in one window.Starting Price: Free -
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Obsidian
Obsidian
Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same. In Obsidian, making and following "connections" is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph. Note-taking is incredibly personal. Tried every app, but there's always something not quite right? You deserve better. Obsidian is built to be extensible. With 22 core plugins and 149 community plugins, set up your own toolkit and get running in minutes. You'll even be able to install third party plugins or build your own once Obsidian reaches v1.0. Sky's the limit. In our age when cloud services can shut down, get bought, or change privacy policy any day, the last thing you want is proprietary formats and data lock-in. With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder.Starting Price: $25 one-time payment -
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BBEdit
Bare Bones Software, Inc.
The leading professional HTML and text editor for the Mac, with high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.Starting Price: $49.99 -
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adoc Studio
ProjectWizards GmbH
adoc Studio is an integrated writing environment for Mac and iPad, functioning like an IDE but for writing technical documentation using the AsciiDoc markup language. Our software allows you to organize, write, and share texts effortlessly. - Manage texts, media, and other components of technical documentation with an intuitive structure. - Create extensive documents by dividing them into chapters and navigate even the most complex documentation with ease. - Write in the left-side editor and instantly preview in HTML or PDF. Add images, tables, references, formulas, and attributes seamlessly. - Display or hide text passages with our conditionals to export dedicated documents to several audiences. When ready, export your project into multiple formats (such as HTML and PDF) using CSS styles. - Customize and automate document exports, and work seamlessly on Mac, iPad, and iPhone, with cloud synchronization ensuring all participants stay updated.Starting Price: $9.99 -
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Vim
Vim
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built for creating and changing any kind of text efficiently. It is included as "vi" with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X. Vim is rock stable and is continuously being developed to become even better. Vim is persistent, multi-level, with an extensive plugin system, support for hundreds of programming languages and file formats, powerful search and replace feature, and it integrates with many tools. Vim online is a central place for the Vim community to store useful Vim tips and tools. Vim has a scripting language that allows for plugin like extensions to enable IDE behavior, syntax highlighting, colorization as well as other advanced features. These scripts can be uploaded and maintained using Vim online. Vim stands for Vi IMproved. It used to be Vi IMitation, but there are so many improvements that a name change was appropriate. Vim is a text editor which includes almost all the commands from the Unix program "Vi". -
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TextMate
MacroMates
Powerful and customizable text editor with support for a huge list of programming languages and developed as open source. Making multiple changes at once, swapping pieces of code, and a lot more is made trivial with TextMate’s easy way to add multiple insertion points. Select what you want to search, what you want to search for, and TextMate will present the results in a way that makes it easy to jump between matches, extract matched text, or preview desired replacements. See what files have changes in the file browser view, what lines have changes in the editor view, bring up a diff of the current file’s changes, commit a subset, TextMate supports it all for all the major version control systems. One file mixing languages? Projects using different build systems? Third party code with different formatting preferences? TextMate can handle it all by associating detailed scope selectors with key shortcuts, settings, etc. -
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Kate
KDE
Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files. Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like. Kate supports highlighting for over 300 languages making it easier to read code in almost all programming languages. Kate also understands how brackets works and will help you navigate inside complex code blocks hierarchies. On-the-fly spellchecking is also included and will help you check your text before publishing. Work on multiple files at the same time with split views. Use the project sidebar to navigate your project directory structures and use Kate's smart tabs to quickly access your recently opened documents. -
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BlueGriffon
Disruptive Innovations
The next-gen Web and EPUB Editor based on the rendering engine of Firefox. BlueGriffon® has a long list of famous ancestors and proudly inherits from all of them: Netscape®, Mozilla® Composer and Nvu. It is powered by Gecko, the same rendering engine you can find at the heart of Firefox®, and is filled with tons of powerful features. BlueGriffon® is used by millions of users around the world, including Universities, Governments and even the European Parliament. It is officially recommended by the French Government as the Web Authoring Tool for the French Administration in its effort to rely on and promote Free Software. BlueGriffon® is used by millions of users around the world, including Universities, Governments and even the European Parliament. It is officially recommended by the French Government as the Web Authoring Tool for the French Administration in its effort to rely on and promote Free Software.Starting Price: $87.75 one-time payment -
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LightPaper
LightPaper
Great features bundled in a simple app to help you take notes and write documents. LightPaper lets you write your documents/articles/blogs using powerful features such as markdown, folder navigator, real and live preview, shadow notes, multi-tabs, custom styles, distraction free mode, syntax highlighting, math rendering, full GFM support including GitHub tasks, Jekyll rendering, and more. Whether you are a professional writer, a blogger, a developer, a scholar, or a student, LightPaper has you covered for all your writing and note taking needs. Use LightPaper's powerful folder navigator to open multiple folders and browse through all your documents. You can not only open a document quickly by double clicking it but can also create a new document or a folder, delete files or folders or rename them. Quick Open feature allows you to quickly search through all your files. Favorite a file or folder to have it accessible any time you need it.Starting Price: $14.99 one-time payment -
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Textastic
Textastic
Textastic for Mac is the perfect desktop companion to the popular iOS code editor. With support for more than 80 source code and markup languages, Textastic brings the powerful syntax coloring engine of the iOS source code editor to the Mac. You can use your own TextMate, and Sublime Text, compatible syntax definitions. Textastic for Mac is based on the code editor that powers the iOS app. It uses native macOS APIs like Core Text for maximum speed. Code completion, file navigation with the symbol list and support for modern Mac features like Auto Save and Versions make your life easier. With iCloud Drive, you can sync your files across your macOS and iOS devices with ease. The app packs in support for 80 source code and markup languages, iCloud auto-save and macOS Versions. Built with the ability to import syntax definitions, themes and templates from TextMate.Starting Price: $7.99 one-time payment -
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Pulsar
Pulsar-Edit
A community-led hyper-hackable text editor. Pulsar works across operating systems. Use it on OS X, Windows, or Linux. Search and install new packages or create your own right from Pulsar. Pulsar helps you write code faster with a smart and flexible autocomplete. Easily browse and open a single file, a whole project, or multiple projects in one window. Split your Pulsar interface into multiple panes to compare and edit code across files. Find, preview, and replace text as you type in a file or across all your projects.Starting Price: Free -
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Hashnode
Hashnode
Create and grow your developer blog, newsletter, or team engineering blog effortlessly with Hashnode. Level up your writing using powerful AI features. Blogging platform optimized for software developers and technical writers. Super-fast and SEO-optimized blogs built for developers and tech enthusiasts. Hashnode blogs are fast, up-to-date with SEO techniques, and score above 90 on all Lighthouse parameters. They're simple, elegant, and user-friendly. Own your traffic. Blog for free on a custom domain! Don't blog on rented URLs. Map your custom domain to your Hashnode blog for free and own your traffic. True content ownership. Automatic GitHub backup and publishing. Publish articles from your GitHub repository to your Hashnode blog and backup your Hashnode articles to GitHub like a pro. Create and scale developer documentation and API references that are as dynamic as your code. Built for teams that need full control, customization, and Stripe-level quality.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Typora
Typora
Typora gives you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other unnecessary distractions. Instead, it provides a real live preview feature to help you concentrate on the content itself. Typora allows you to manage your files easily, providing both file tree panel and articles (file list) side panel, allows you to manage your files easily. Organize your files your way, including putting in sync services, like Dropbox or iCloud. Automatically see the Outline structure of your documents in outline panel, which allows you to quickly go through the document and jump to any section with one click. Export to PDF with bookmarks. Go further and export or import. More formats, including docx, OpenOffice, LaTeX, MediaWiki, Epub, etc, can be exported or imported. See how large your document is in words, characters, lines, or reading minutes. -
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Boost Note
Boost Note
Boost Note is a powerful, lightspeed collaborative workspace for developer teams. Built to empower developers productivity with the most solid note taking experience for developers. Not just a GitHub flavored markdown. Put diagrams with Charts.js, Mermaid, and PlantUML in documents to maximize visibility. Choose from keymaps like Vim, over 150 themes, and more to create your own Markdown editor. Manage your documents programmatically. Grab an authentication token and access Boost Note's APIs via simple HTTP requests. Automate your documentation work with over 2,000 external tool integrations via Zapier. Collaborate with your colleagues and share information your way. Have all your teams in one shared workspace. Write documents as a team with Boost Note's realtime editing. Check revision history of a doc. You can easily roll back to one of the previous versions in one click. Keep your important data safe through granula access control based on workspace.Starting Price: $3 per member per month -
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Corilla
Corilla
A blazing fast markdown editor in the cloud. Built by technical writers to improve the UX of our daily content workflow and remove the complexity of actually writing. Same-page authoring and team draft links. Designed from the ground up to improve the collaboration between writers, developers and the entire organization. Maintain your content in a dedicated repository with powerful search and tagging plus the security of full version control. Freedom from duplicate files or ambiguous version names. Modular content publishing allows you to choose your flavour of topic-based authoring and single sourcing to maximize content re-use. No more dead-end wikis. Your internal documentation has never been more discoverable or dynamic. Company-wide private documentation or role-specific guides for new hires or reporting in just a few clicks. Unlimited documentation hosting with the option of custom domain, integrated publishing to external services or self-hosting.Starting Price: $45 per month -
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Quiver
Quiver
Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code, Markdown and LaTeX within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX, and find any note instantly via the full-text search. A note in Quiver is comprised of cells, snippets of text, code, Markdown, LaTeX (via MathJax) or diagrams (sequence diagram, flowchart). You can freely mix different cell types within one note. You can set different languages for different code cells, too. The programmer's notebook should make code editing effortless. Quiver packs the awesome ACE code editor in code cells, with syntax highlighting support for more than 120 languages, over 20 themes, automatic indent and outdent, and much more. Quiver lets you write in Markdown with inline formatting and custom CSS options. A live preview window renders Markdown as you type. Quiver uses MathJax to typeset mathematical equations written in LaTeX. -
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SnippetsLab
SnippetsLab
Supercharge your productivity with SnippetsLab, a full-featured, professional code snippets manager. It helps you create your personal code library, keeps everything impeccably organized, and always at the ready for use. SnippetsLab makes it simple to manage all your contents with multi-level folders, shortcuts, tags, and Smart Groups. Smart Groups gives you the option to search by not only title, content and language, but also by creation and modification dates, and much more. Choose from an ever-expanding list of supported languages, with more than 440 available for the current version. Take advantage of the Markdown capabilities of SnippetsLab. When writing Markdown, you have access to syntax highlighting of the full set of 420 languages, plus more. Include an auto-updating Table of Contents. Professional editing experience with keyboard shortcuts for quick formatting. Real-time preview with accurate scroll sync.Starting Price: $9.99 one-time payment -
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Nova
Panic
If we're being honest, Mac apps are a bit of a lost art. There are great reasons to make cross-platform apps — to start, they're cross-platform — but it's just not who we are. Founded as a Mac software company in 1997, our joy at Panic comes from building things that feel truly, well, Mac-like. Long ago, we created Coda, an all-in-one Mac web editor that broke new ground. But when we started work on Nova, we looked at where the web was today, and where we needed to be. It was time for a fresh start. It all starts with our first-class text-editor. It's new, hyper-fast, and flexible, with all the features you want: smart autocomplete, multiple cursors, a Minimap, editor overscroll, tag pairs and brackets, and way, way more. For the curious, Nova has built-in support for CoffeeScript, CSS, Diff, ERB, Haml, HTML, INI, JavaScript, JSON, JSX, Less, Lua, Markdown, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Sass, SCSS, Smarty, SQL, TSX, TypeScript, XML, and YAML. -
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Emacs
GNU
At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types. Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users. Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts. Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface. A wide range of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, IRC client, and more. A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions. Built-in support for arbitrary-size integers. Text shaping with HarfBuzz. Native support for JSON parsing. Better support for Cairo drawing. Portable dumping used instead of unexec. Support for XDG conventions for init files. Additional early-init initialization file. Built-in support for tab bar and tab-line. Support for resizing and rotating of images without ImageMagick. -
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CodeRunner
CodeRunner
A lightweight, multi-language programming text editor and IDE for macOS. CodeRunner was designed to support all of the most widely used programming languages and run them instantly. The app is configured to run code in 25 languages out-of-the-box, and additional languages can be configured to run by simply entering their terminal command. With over 200 syntax modes, lots of advanced editing features and thoughtful details, CodeRunner will quickly become your go-to editor for any and all kinds of text files. CodeRunner's code completion is the best you'll find in any IDE. Intelligent matching of typed text enables completions beyond single words. Quickly find the right completion among thousands with the extra-fuzzy search algorithm, helpful documentation snippets, and smart ranking of results. Don't clutter your code with print-statements for debugging. Instead, use CodeRunner's built-in debugging features to set breakpoints and step through your code.Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment -
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Bluefish
Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages. See features for an extensive overview, take a look at the screenshots, or download it right away. Bluefish is an open-source development project, released under the GNU GPL license. Bluefish is a multi-platform application that runs on most desktop operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, Windows, OpenBSD and Solaris. Bluefish 2.2.12 is a minor maintenance release with some minor new features. Most important is a fix for a crash in a simple search. Python 3 compatibility has been further improved. Encoding detection in python files has been improved. Triple-click now selects the line. On Mac OSX Bluefish deals better with the new permission features. Also using the correct language in the Bluefish user interface is fixed for certain languages on OSX. -
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gedit
The GNOME Project
gedit is the text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. The first goal of gedit is to be easy to use, with a simple interface by default. More advanced features are available by enabling plugins. A flexible plugin system which can be used to dynamically add new advanced features.
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