Open Source Mac Markdown Editors
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View 52 business solutionsBrowse free open source Markdown Editors and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Markdown Editors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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Enterprise-grade ITSM, for every businessFreshservice is an intuitive, AI-powered platform that helps IT, operations, and business teams deliver exceptional service without the usual complexity. Automate repetitive tasks, resolve issues faster, and provide seamless support across the organization. From managing incidents and assets to driving smarter decisions, Freshservice makes it easy to stay efficient and scale with confidence.
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MarkText
A simple and elegant markdown editor
MarkText is an MIT licensed open source project, and the latest version will always be downloadable for free from the GitHub release page. MarkText is still in development, and its development is inseparable from all sponsors. Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience. Support CommonMark Spec, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec and selective support Pandoc markdown. Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX), front matter and emojis. Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency. Output HTML and PDF files. Various themes: Cadmium Light, Material Dark etc. Various editing modes: Source Code mode, Typewriter mode, Focus mode. Paste images directly from clipboard. -
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OneNote Md Exporter
ConsoleApp to export OneNote notebooks to Markdown formats
OneNote Md Exporter is a console application running on Windows that exports your OneNote notebooks in different markdown formats. Evaluate or migrate to an alternative Knowledge Management Software like Joplin, Obsidian or other software based on Markdown format. Backup your OneNote Notebooks in an interoperable and open file format. -
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Notepads
A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design
I have been waiting long enough for a modern Windows 10 notepad app to come before I decided to create one myself. Don’t get me wrong, Notepad++, VS Code, and Sublime are great text editors. I have used them all and I will continue to use them in the future. However, they are either too heavy or look less appealing. There are times that I just wanted to use Windows Notepad for things like writing notes or editing config files. So I decided to create a win32 notepad replacement here and try to give it a modern look and feel. Most importantly, it has to be blazingly fast and appeal to everyone. -
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MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
MarkEdit is a free and open-source Markdown editor, for macOS. It's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown. -
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Markdown Viewer
Markdown Viewer / Browser Extension
Markdown Viewer and Browser Extension. -
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Zettlr
A Markdown Editor for the 21st century
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. Links? Check. File IDs? Check. File tagging? Also check. 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. Zettlr integrates well with reference managers such as Zotero, JabRef, or Juris-M. Simply load your library into Zettlr, and begin to cite. Zettlr strictly adheres to established standards and does not reinvent the wheel. -
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PanWriter
Markdown editor with pandoc integration and paginated preview
PanWriter is a distraction-free markdown editor with two unique features. Tight integration with pandoc for import/export to/from plenty of file formats (including HTML, docx, LaTeX and EPUB). Preview pane that can show pages – including page breaks etc. Layout adjustments are immediately reflected in the preview. Instead, you can write text in Markdown, a convention on how to write plain text files. Basically, it’s like you would write an email. -
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VNote
A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++
VNote is a Qt-based, free and open-source note-taking application, focusing on Markdown now. VNote is designed to provide a pleasant note-taking platform with excellent editing experience. VNote is NOT just a simple editor for Markdown. By providing note management, VNote makes taking notes in Markdown simpler. In the future, VNote will support more formats besides Markdown. Utilizing Qt, VNote could run on Linux, Windows, and macOS. -
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BookStack
Simple & Free Wiki Software
BookStack is a free and open source platform for storing and organising information and documentation. A self-hosted and opinionated wiki system, BookStack is simple and easy to use, giving even new users with just basic word-processing skills a pleasant out of the box experience. BookStack offers a relaxed, open and positive approach. While the platform can provide advanced power features to those who want them, it is primarily designed not to be extensible outside of its core purpose. That being said, BookStack already comes with plenty of powerful features, such as search and linking, cross-book sorting, image management and more. It is also multi-lingual and offers options for authentication integration. -
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Minder
Mind-mapping application for Elementary OS
Use the power of mind-mapping to make your ideas come to life. Mind-mapping application for Elementary OS -
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Laverna
JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor
Laverna has a simple and robust markdown editor, which can help you write faster than ever before with our live markdown preview. The editor can be switched to distraction free mode where you can focus solely on writing notes. Make your notes available on any device with your Dropbox & RemoteStorage account. You can make your notes available only to you by enabling encryption. Keep simple to do lists organized in notes and notebooks. You can manage your notes without ever lifting your hands from your keyboard. Keep snippets of code to have access to them anytime and anywhere. Do you prefer to stay anonymous? You do not need to go through registration process to start using Laverna. You can export your notes from Laverna and import them back anytime. You are not tied to using it forever. Every line of code can be reviewed on GitHub and is available under MPL-2.0 license. -
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Standard Notes App
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files
Standard Notes is a free, secure note-taking app with powerful end-to-end encryption, unparalleled privacy features, and seamless cross-platform syncing on unlimited devices. Standard Notes is a secure digital notes app that protects your notes and files with audited, industry-leading end-to-end encryption. Only you have access to the keys required to decrypt your data. Write and store all your notes and files in one secure place and seamlessly access them across all your devices. Note-taking services like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, and Simplenote cannot prevent employees and governments from reading your data. Standard Notes features advanced security and privacy controls that protect your data against hacks, data breaches, government access, and even employee access. -
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Pix2Text
Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, and math
An Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, math formulas, and text in images, converting them into Markdown format. A free alternative to Mathpix, empowering seamless conversion of visual content into text-based representations. 80+ languages are supported. Pix2Text (P2T) aims to be a free and open-source Python alternative to Mathpix, and it can already accomplish Mathpix's core functionality. Pix2Text (P2T) can recognize layouts, tables, images, text, and mathematical formulas, and integrate all of these contents into Markdown format. P2T can also convert an entire PDF file (which can contain scanned images or any other format) into Markdown format. -
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Markdown PDF
Markdown converter for Visual Studio Code
This extension converts Markdown files to PDF, HTML, PNG or JPEG files. -
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html-to-markdown
Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites
Convert HTML into Markdown with Go. It is using an HTML Parser to avoid the use of regexp as much as possible. That should prevent some weird cases and allows it to be used for cases where the input is totally unknown. -
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markdown-oxide
Robust, Minimalist, Unbundled PKM for your text-editor through LSP
Markdown-Oxide is a Personal Knowledge Management System(PKM) that composes with your favorite text editor through the Language Server Protocol(LSP). While other PKMs implement their own text editors, markdown-oxide is unbundled: it leaves text editing to a dedicated text editor and focuses solely on robust, performant knowledge management. -
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Ferrite
A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML
Ferrite is a fast, lightweight desktop text editor built for people who spend a lot of time working in structured text formats and want a snappy, native-feeling app instead of a heavy IDE. It focuses on common “config and docs” formats like Markdown and popular structured data files, so it fits naturally into developer, DevOps, and technical writing workflows. The editor is designed around responsiveness and low overhead, prioritizing quick startup, smooth scrolling, and predictable editing even when you are jumping between many small files. It also aims to reduce friction when reading and tweaking structured documents by offering format-aware conveniences and a UI that stays out of the way. Ferrite positions itself as a pragmatic daily driver for notes, documentation, and configuration edits, especially when you do not need a full language server stack. -
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Mark
Sync your markdown files with Confluence pages
Mark, a tool for syncing your markdown documentation with Atlassian Confluence pages. This is very useful if you store documentation to your software in a Git repository and don't want to do the extra job of updating the Confluence page using a tinymce wysiwyg enterprise core editor which always breaks everything. Mark does the same but in a different way. Mark reads your markdown file, creates a Confluence page if it's not found by its name, uploads attachments, translates Markdown into HTML, and updates the contents of the page via REST API. It's like you don't even need to create sections/pages in your Confluence anymore, just use them in your Markdown documentation. Mark uses an extended file format, which, still being valid markdown, contains several HTML-ish metadata headers, which can be used to locate a page inside the Confluence instance and update it accordingly. -
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Notable
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
Notes are written in Markdown, plus you can write KaTeX expressions, Mermaid diagrams and more, check out our Markdown cheatsheet. Notable provides a very powerful Markdown editor, it's the same one VS Code uses in fact, so features like multi-cursors, a minimap and best-in-class syntax highlighting are built-in. Notes and attachments are simply stored on your disk, this is extremely portable and powerful: you could edit your notes via a third-party editor on mobile, have them synchronized via Dropbox, use Git, run a regex-based search and replace etc. A dark theme is also available. In the future support for custom themes will be added as well. Zen mode provides a minimalistic editing and reading experience, hiding everything that's not necessary. Notable is also keyboard friendly, has a quick open window, and we'll soon add a command palette too, so you won't have to click any buttons if you don't want to. -
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StackEdit
In-browser Markdown editor
Unrivalled writing experience. StackEdit’s Markdown syntax highlighting is unique. The refined text formatting of the editor helps you visualize the final rendering of your files. StackEdit provides very handy formatting buttons and shortcuts, thanks to PageDown, the WYSIWYG-style Markdown editor used by Stack Overflow. Whether you write, you review, you comment… StackEdit's layout provides you with the flexibility you need, without sacrifice. StackEdit’s Scroll Sync feature accurately binds the scrollbars of the editor panel and the preview panel to ensure that you always keep an eye on the output while writing. StackEdit can sync your files with Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub. It can also publish them as blog posts to Blogger, WordPress and Zendesk. You can choose whether to upload in Markdown format, HTML, or to format the output using the Handlebars template engine. -
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Alexandrie
Web application for Markdown note taking
Alexandrie is a fast, modern, and open-source web application for taking and organizing notes using an extended Markdown syntax, designed for students, creators, and knowledge workers. It offers a structured note-taking experience with support for workspaces and categories, making it easy to organize large repositories of information intuitively. The application runs as a responsive web interface that works online or offline, with search and export features that help users retrieve and reuse their content effectively. Built with a clear focus on productivity, Alexandrie includes support for custom storage backends like S3-compatible services or local file systems via Docker Compose setups. Its extended Markdown syntax lets users embed rich content, multimedia references, and structured blocks that go beyond plain text, while the sleek UI encourages distraction-free writing and review. -
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MiaoYan
Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences
MiaoYan is a lightweight, native Markdown note-taking app for macOS, built to give programmers and writers a fast, distraction-free environment for text. It is fully local-first, meaning your notes live as plain Markdown files on your machine rather than in a proprietary cloud, which appeals to privacy-conscious users. The app focuses on a minimalist three-column layout (folders, note list, editor) with syntax highlighting, dark mode, and typography tuned for Chinese and English writing. Beyond basic editing, MiaoYan supports presentation and PPT-style modes, letting you turn Markdown documents into slide-like views directly inside the app. It also adds power-user features like automatic document typesetting, internal links, LaTeX math, Mermaid and PlantUML diagrams, and Markmap mind-map rendering. Under the hood, it is implemented in Swift as a native macOS application, which keeps it snappy and lighter than Electron-based note apps. -
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MultiMarkdown
Expanded perl version of John Gruber's original Markdown
MultiMarkdown is an expanded Perl-based implementation of John Gruber’s original Markdown language. It builds on the simplicity of Markdown’s text-to-HTML conversion by adding support for features that make it more useful for technical writing, academic publishing, and complex documents. The project allows users to write documents in a human-readable plain text format and convert them into structured HTML or other formats. Unlike standard Markdown, MultiMarkdown adds capabilities for tables, footnotes, citations, cross-references, and metadata, making it especially valuable for longer and more detailed documents. Its design philosophy is to maintain Markdown’s ease of use while expanding its ability to handle professional publishing needs. Although this version is no longer under active development since MultiMarkdown 3, it remains a reference implementation for earlier enhancements to Markdown. -
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Quarkdown
Markdown with superpowers, from ideas to papers, and presentations
Quarkdown is a lightweight Markdown processor and static site generator written in Java. It converts Markdown files into styled HTML pages with customizable themes, supporting blog creation and simple documentation websites. Quarkdown emphasizes simplicity and speed, providing an out-of-the-box experience for minimal personal sites. -
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Boost Note
Boost Note is a document driven project management tool
Boost Note is a document-driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity. Write overviews of systems including concepts, terminology definitions and descriptions of how these concepts work together. Having a 'living document' to help drive dialogue and exchange of ideas through collaboration helps this process significantly. Organize your dev team's sprint backlog and visualize them with status, assignees, reviewers, due date and everything you need. Reduce repeated progress updates in the company chat and standup meetings. It’s time to aggregate your knowledge in a single place. Build a team-wide knowledge management system to solve the information silos. Maximize the developer team's velocity with a document-centric workflow. Collaborate with your teammates in a doc with Boost Note's real-time editing. Boost Note's editor makes it easy to write a tech spec with Charts.js, Mermaid, Latex, PlantUML and so on.
