Best Markdown Editors - Page 2

Compare the Top Markdown Editors as of April 2025 - Page 2

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    Quiver

    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

    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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    Focused

    Focused

    Codebots

    We think Focused is the new benchmark for markdown writing apps that will enable you to really focus on your work. Building on the amazing Typed app from Realmac Software, Codebots is proud to bring you Focused for Mac. Focused is not just a distraction-free writing app, it’s the first writing app that actually aids your focus. Markdown was created by John Gruber as an easy to read plain text format that allows you to create web based content with no HTML knowledge. The syntax that is used when writing markdown allows you to define the intent of different elements in the markdown document e.g. a # in front of a word indicates that the word is to be formatted and displayed as a Title. Markdown removes the need to memorize complex HTML tags, and an ever growing number of blogging platforms allow markdown to be used for content creation. No clutter, no distractions. Just a perfectly crafted set of tools to help you write and stay focused on the task at hand.
    Starting Price: $19.99 one-time payment
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    Markdown Monster

    Markdown Monster

    Markdown Monster

    Markdown Monster is a powerful, yet easy to use Markdown editor and viewer with syntax highlighting and sophisticated and fast edit features. A collapsible, synced, live preview lets you see your output as you type and scroll. Easily embed images, links, tables, emojis and code using Markdown text or use our UI based helpers to simplify many operations with a few keystrokes. Paste images from the clipboard or drag and drop from Explorer or our built-in file browser. Inline spell-checking and word counts keep your content streamlined unobtrusively. You can export your Markdown to HTML or PDF by saving to disk or by copying Markdown selections as HTML directly to the clipboard. The HTML preview can display syntax colored code snippets for most common coding languages, and can easily be customized with HTML and CSS template to match your own sites. You can choose from a light and dark app themes, and choose individual editor and preview themes that are fully customizable.
    Starting Price: $59 one-time payment
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    Nova

    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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    Zettlr

    Zettlr

    Zettlr

    Writing is an essential part of our everyday life. Why make it complicated? Zettlr redefines what writing means. It is slim, fast, and versatile. Focus on what matters to you. Publish, not perish. In modern times, getting a hold of the flood of information is almost as hard as inserting a USB drive the right way on the first attempt. Zettlr allows you to connect pieces of information using state of the art Zettelkasten methodology. And the best is: Unlike many competitors, Zettlr never locks you in. Zettlr supports almost every conceivable way to create links and identify your files. In other words: No matter where you come from — all Zettelkästen are beautiful and supported by Zettlr. Out of the box. Due to its designing flexibility, Zettlr supports dark mode out of the box, as well as many different themes, suited to your needs. Switching is as easy as pressing a button.
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    Emacs
    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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    Simplenote

    Simplenote

    Simplenote

    Notes stay updated across all your devices, automatically and in real time. There’s no “sync” button: It just works. Add tags to find notes quickly with instant searching. Share a to-do list, post some instructions, or publish your notes online. Notes are backed up with every change, so you can see what you noted last week or last month. Write, preview, and publish your notes in markdown format. Apps, backups, syncing, sharing – it’s all completely free. You can browse the notes you want to import or drag and drop a file into the import window. The app takes care of the rest. If you’re importing notes with markdown formatting and you’d like to keep them that way, check the enable markdown on all notes box and they’ll be automatically configured as markdown notes in simplenote.
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    Haroopad

    Haroopad

    Haroopad

    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author professional-looking documents of various formats: blog posts, slides, presentations, reports, email and more. Haroopad gives you the same editing experience regardless of the platform you are working on. It runs on all three major operating systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Haroopad support (Ubuntu, 32/64 bit) Windows 7/8, Mac OS X, of Linux. More and more, we tend to save our documents on YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo, Slideshare, Flickr, Instagram, Soundcloud, Wikipedia, Pastebin and so on. Now, you can easily embed those contents into your documents. Haroopad not only supports Markdown (GFM), but also has ability to build extensions for making your own features. Haroopad supports modern themes in editing area, skins for transformed documents, UI components for interactive experiences and syntax highlighting for various programming languages.
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    Texts

    Texts

    Texts

    Write using Markdown, without having to remember the markup. With Texts you can apply styles to words or paragraphs and immediately see the results. Your images and tables are displayed directly within Texts. Use Texts to create structured documents. You set your titles and headings, and they will stay in place if you export your document to another format. Content written in Texts can be easily published as a blog on GitHub Pages, with math, tables, footnotes etc. Developed to cover all your needs, formulas and footnotes, bibliography and citations, tables and links. Writing your documents in Texts gives you a lot of flexibility. You can easily convert your words into clean HTML5, professional PDFs, ePub or Word format, or even a presentation. Texts produces immaculate PDFs. Everything you create, from paragraphs of text to mathematical formulae, is perfectly typeset. Change the appearance of your text editor with themes.
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    WriteMonkey

    WriteMonkey

    WriteMonkey

    Writemonkey is a Windows zenware writing application with an extremely stripped down user interface, leaving you alone with your thoughts and your words. It is light, fast and free. With an array of innovative tools under the hood and full Markdown support, it helps you write better. This version features new language tools and can run even more cool plugins. Plugins are locked and will only work with a writemonkey donor key. Donors will receive a key (via e-mail) which will enable personalized name tag in splash screen and access to many plugins that are available as separate download. Full-screen editing, get free from your computer and its distractions. Writemonkey's full-screen mode hides it all away leaving just you and your text behind. Do more with less! Just copy files and directories in any folder on your machine, Writemonkey is very fast and responsive. The main executable is less than 1,6 MB in size.
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    MarkPad

    MarkPad

    MarkPad

    Markdown is easy to grok, but how do you know its going to turn out perfect? A side-by-side preview, rendered in real time, thats how! Feature rich, open and save directly to your blog, github and more, paste images from the clipboard into Markdown, Jekyll Site and Open from folder support plus much more! Markdown can be done in any text editor, but why must the experience degrade to Notepad? No more, MarkPad has spellchecker and a floating syntax tool bar. MarkPad is an editor for Markdown, a widely used syntax for formatting plain text to convert to blogs, comments, and in other places like on Stack Overflow. Our aim is to create a useably, stylish new version of the project utilizing Microsoft's WPF technology to provide a fresh UI for creating files that we can use to create blog posts for this, and other blogs using Markdown.
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    wri.pe

    wri.pe

    wri.pe

    wri.pe is a simple and smart web notepad. Are you tired of complexity? All you want is just taking notes? Then wri.pe is for you, we focus on simplicity. Dates writen in the title or body of your notes are automatically inserted in your calendar. You can use almost all functions using your keyboard. wri.pe also supports markdown. Access your notes from any location. wri.pe can be used from iPhone/iPad, Android and PC browsers. Your notes are safe at wri.pe with a daily backup to Dropbox and Evernote. wri.pe support HTML5 offline capability. wri.pe will be able to be used without an Internet connection. Notes will be able to be published online or restricted to friends. wri.pe will support fork and pull-request features like Git. Shortcut keys and markdown, available on any device, with backup to clouds.
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    Markdown Journal

    Markdown Journal

    Markdown Journal

    Markdown Journal is a simple journal that uses Dropbox as back end storage and saves your entries as Markdown files. You are in full control of your journal. All the entries are stored in your personal Dropbox forever. If at some point you decide to stop using Markdown Journal you get to keep all your entries. There is no export function, because your work is always going to be in your Dropbox, as plain text files. You don't need to sign up. If you have a Dropbox account you can hit Write and begin to take notes immediately. If you haven't logged in in a while Markdown Journal will ask to connect with your Dropbox account. A new file is started each month. You can edit any of these files directly with a text editor if you wish. You can delete or rename them at any time. Markdown Journal won't care and will continue working regardless of what you do with the files. When the entry is saved to your Dropbox folder it retains that same Markdown formatting.
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    Draft

    Draft

    Draft

    You don't need writing software; you need someone's feedback on your writing. You don't need version control software; you need to find all the things you've written without fear. You don't need distraction free text editors; you need to find ways to write more concisely, more clearly. You don't need real time collaboration software; you need a bigger audience for your writing. We're working on Draft to provide what you need. When I share a Google Doc, collaborators overwrite my master copy. It's insanely difficult to accept individual changes they've made. However, when you share your document using Draft, any changes your collaborator makes are on their own copy of the document, and you get to accept or ignore each individual change they make. With Draft, as you go along, you can mark major versions of your work. When you want to compare your old drafts, you have a powerful view to see how your document changed over time.
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    Markdown Pro

    Markdown Pro

    Markdown Pro

    A beautiful and easy to use editor for the popular Markdown markup language, combined with a themed live preview feature, you will never have to write boring documents again. Create beautiful documents with the power of Markdown Pro. Mavericks is fully supported now. Also, you can now edit your iCloud stored markdown documents. Middle eastern languages such as Hebrew and Arabic are written predominantly right-to-left. Markdown PRO supports preview in right-to-left mode. Just go to preferences and turn this feature on or off. Markdown PRO allows you to not only write using the markdown syntax, but instantly gives you a live preview of how your formatted text will look like!. On top of that, it provides a few beautiful templates you can use to impress your friends, family or colleagues with. Markdown is a simple text formatting language for all your writing needs; it is a way to format your text adding italic and bold text, headings, notes, images, and more.
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    CodeRunner

    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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    HedgeDoc

    HedgeDoc

    HedgeDoc

    HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor. You can use it to easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers and they’re ready to go. Installing HedgeDoc on your server is easy! We provide a ready to use bundle and a docker image. For details, take a look at our install guide. The HedgeDoc source code is available on GitHub and licensed under AGPL 3.0. Everything is open source and free as in free speech. Read it, understand it, help us to improve it! We are always open for improvements, wishes and discussions. You can join our chat room on Matrix or open a topic in our Discourse.
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    Dillinger

    Dillinger

    Dillinger

    Dillinger is a cloud-enabled HTML5 Markdown editor that can be used offline and is powered by AngularJS. Markdown is a lightweight markup languages that uses the same formatting conventions as email. Drag and drop HTML files into Dillinger to convert them to Markdown. Drag and drop Markdown or HTML files into Dillinger. You can export documents as Markdown, HTML, and PDF. The text you see is actually written in Markdown. To get an idea of Markdown's syntax, simply type some text in the left window and then watch the results in right. Drag and drop images (requires your Dropbox account be linked). Import and save files from GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive.
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    Nota

    Nota

    Nota

    A clean and familiar writing experience combined with editing tools that are invisible when you don't need them and powerful when you do. Autocomplete, auto-pairing, subtle visual hints. No reformatting on open, no transformations on copy or paste. Speed up common things like opening files, searching, or calling commands — Nota quick dialogs use fuzzy matching to show you better results in fewer keystrokes. Nota supports the popular wiki syntax for linking pages and makes it easy to build personal wikis, team knowledge bases, or something like a Second Brain or a Zettelkasten. The docs you create in Nota are regular Markdown files that you can keep in Dropbox, manage in Finder, and use with any app that works with plain-text files — desktop or mobile, now or 50 years from now. We can't lose them or limit your access to them because we don't control them.
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    woofmark

    woofmark

    woofmark

    A modular, progressive, and beautiful Markdown and HTML editor. Markdown lets you produce rich HTML-formatted text by writing plain text. You can write code, text in italics or give them a “bolder” format. You can create headings by prefixing them with one or more hash characters (#). The less hashes they have, the more prominent your headings become. Creating links is merely a matter of wrapping some text in brackets and referencing a resource locator, like the ones you’ll find at the bottom of this text. Images can be embedded just the same, except you’ll have to prefix the wrapped text with an exclamation mark. The buttons provided look kind of rough, but that's on purpose, it's up to you to style them and the API helps you do that. Small and focused, progressive, enhance a raw textarea. Markdown, HTML, and WYSIWYG input modes. Text selection persists even across input modes! Built in undo and redo. Entirely customizable styles.
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    R Markdown

    R Markdown

    RStudio PBC

    R Markdown documents are fully reproducible. Use a productive notebook interface to weave together narrative text and code to produce elegantly formatted output. Use multiple languages including R, Python, and SQL. R Markdown supports dozens of static and dynamic output formats including HTML, PDF, MS Word, Beamer, HTML5 slides, Tufte-style handouts, books, dashboards, shiny applications, scientific articles, websites, and more. R Markdown provides an authoring framework for data science. You can use a single R Markdown file to both. When you open the file in the RStudio IDE, it becomes a notebook interface for R. You can run each code chunk by clicking the icon. RStudio executes the code and display the results inline with your file.
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    blogdown

    blogdown

    blogdown

    We introduce an R package, blogdown, in this short book, to teach you how to create websites using R Markdown and Hugo. If you have experience with creating websites, you may naturally ask what the benefits of using R Markdown are, and how blogdown is different from existing popular website platforms, such as WordPress. It produces a static website, meaning the website only consists of static files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, etc. You can host the website on any web server (see Chapter 3 for details). The website does not require server-side scripts such as PHP or databases like WordPress does. It is just one folder of static files. The website is generated from R Markdown documents (R is optional, i.e., you can use plain Markdown documents without R code chunks). This brings a huge amount of benefits, especially if your website is related to data analysis or (R) programming.
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    JotterPad

    JotterPad

    JotterPad

    From reed and papyrus to pen to keyboard, to now our smartphones, our way of writing has evolved. With JotterPad, you can make your writing process streamlined, fluid, flexible, and highly personalized to writers of all kinds, Regardless of whether you’re an aspiring novelist, screenplay writer, journalist, or blogger. Equipped with a versatile editor, JotterPad supports both Markdown and Fountain syntax and has a “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) element. For beginners, you are able to change from plain text to rich text format with a simple click or highlight. For experienced users, you will find it more convenient to write by using syntax. Additionally, with the WYSIWYG element, you will get a better representation of the final outcome and look of your work. JotterPad is the only writing assistant you’ll ever need. Search up word definitions, synonyms, and antonyms with our built-in dictionary and Thesaurus.
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    ReadmeStack

    ReadmeStack

    ReadmeStack

    ReadmeStack - Free Markdown web editor synchronized with GitHub. Easily create, format, and export content. Simplify documentation, note-taking, and blog writing. User-friendly interface, syntax highlighting, export to HTML, DOCX, MD. Effortless editing with intuitive toolbar and floating menu.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Bluefish

    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

    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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    Craft

    Craft

    Craft Docs

    Craft is a rich text editor that is easy and frictionless to use. It also supports markdown, code blocks, images, videos, and attaching PDF files or rich link previews. Adding content is very simple - just tap on an empty area and start typing. You can also drag and drop the input field on both Mac (from the sidebar) and iOS (from the bottom bar) in order to drop content at a specific location. If you are using a keyboard, you can also just press space when a block is focused to insert a new block below. You can also add Code, Math Formula (TeX), and plaintext snippets. To do so, you can use the same methods as you would do when adding images. Craft allows you to style your content in a beautiful and simple way. We've created a set of styles that won’t overwhelm, but by combining these, you can still perfectly express yourself - and all of these work great both in dark or in light mode.
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    Bookdown

    Bookdown

    Bookdown

    Write HTML, PDF, ePub, and Kindle books with R Markdown. The bookdown package is an open-source R package that facilitates writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents. A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and citations. Multiple choices of output formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word. Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive applications (HTML widgets and Shiny apps). Support a wide range of languages: R, C/C++, Python, Fortran, Julia, Shell scripts, and SQL, etc. LaTeX equations, theorems, and proofs work for all output formats. Can be published to GitHub, bookdown.org, and any web servers. Integrated with the RStudio IDE. One-click publishing to https://bookdown.org.
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    Abricotine

    Abricotine

    Abricotine

    Abricotine is an open-source markdown editor built for desktop. Write in a clear distraction-free interface or in fullscreen mode. Abricotine supports markdown syntax combined with some GFM enhancements (such as tables). Save document as HTML or copy rich text to paste in your email client. Document content is automatically previewed within the text as you type it. Preview any image or iframe content (such as Youtube videos), math written with LateX, checklists and anchors. Abricotine is an open-source software released under GNU General Public License. It is available on Windows (7 and +), Linux and OS X in beta release. Code coloration, spell checker, and side pane provided as available features.