iA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps

solo-ist/prose

Markdown editor for the agentic era

Scratch – A minimalist markdown scratchpad

An offline-first, open source markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions.

Markdown | Codecademy

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.

Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools

Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.

Why You Shouldn’t Use “Markdown” for Documentation

“Markdown” is the most commonly used lightweight markup language on the internet. It is great for a subset of tasks, mainly blog posts and commenting. However, lately it has been adopted by the tec...

Astro Editor — A focused markdown editor for Astro content collections

Astro Editor is a native, distraction-free markdown editor that reads your Astro content collection schemas and turns frontmatter into clean, schema-aware forms. For writer mode, not coder mode.

Long form writing in Logseq

An area that has traditionally been described as one of Logseq’s weak points is long form writing, however, with the right setup, it’s very much possible to get an excellent writing experience While writing long form text, such as while scripting videos, I absolutely adore the experience of using both iA Writer and Ulysses. They’re some of the best designed apps I’ve ever used and offer an unparalleled editing experience. At the same time, I absolutely love using Logseq and all my notetaking and outlining for videos happens there.

Dangerous Writing App

Dangerous Writing App. If you stop typing, all progress will be lost. Now with over 500+ writing prompts to choose from.

GrammarCheck — Free Writing Editor

Check grammar, track writing goals, measure readability, and time focused writing sessions.

outl — local-first markdown outliner & LLM second brain

Open-source bullet-point outliner. Plain markdown on disk (no UUIDs), peer-to-peer tree-CRDT sync that doesn't lose data when devices edit offline — your devices talk straight to each other, end-to-end encrypted, no cloud or third-party server holding your notes — and an MCP server so Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT use your notes as a second brain. A modern Roam, Logseq and Obsidian alternative built in Rust.

Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose

Available on Mac, Windows and Linux

Markpub.at Markdown Lexicon

Providing a Lexicon for putting Markdown in the ATmosphere.

The Emacsification of Software

We’re all reading a ton of Markdown. It’s been the lingua franca of software development since long before LLMs. But now agents have led us into a cursed renaissance of TUI tooling, and the reading experience has become intolerable. I’m certain that at least 14% of the agita about AI code is driven by exhaustion over incessantly scrolling terminal Markdown.

Markdown Guide

A free and open-source reference guide that explains how to use Markdown.

Word to Markdown — Free .docx to .md Converter

Free, open-source converter that turns Word (.docx) and Google Docs into clean, GitHub-flavored Markdown — entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.