The only option: https://typora.io
Nothing else comes close. Maybe VSCode with extensibility and using that for other languages/syntax, but it’s amazing. After beta testing, I paid the $15 without a second thought
Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#52I've had good results with https://typora.io/ writing articles a couple of years ago. It was free when I was using it because it was in beta, it's now $15. If I needed to write in markdown more regularly I'd probably buy it.
Even if it was free and ad-free, doing Markdown editing on the cloud is inappropriate. Come on.
Typora is fully offline and works on real files, there's no cloud dependency here AFAIK. At most you can keep files in your Google Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox syncing folder to make it "cloud".
Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#53Macdown: https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
And here's a huge list: https://github.com/mundimark/awesome-markdown-editors
Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#54There’s Marktext [0] that is pleasant, feature rich and has a minimalist UI. [0] https://github.com/marktext/marktext
FYI that page still links to https://marktext.app/ on the right under About.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#55I feel like we’re coming full circle. 1. Existing rich text solutions require applications to edit, let’s make one that is so simple you can read/write in plaintext. Markdown is born. 2. Wait I need more features, let’s add more stuff 3. Hey this is too complicated to work with, I need an editor! That being said, check this out: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown
Indeed!
Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#56Neovim + Glow (https://github.com/ellisonleao/glow.nvim). It's beautiful.
Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#57I've had good results with https://typora.io/ writing articles a couple of years ago. It was free when I was using it because it was in beta, it's now $15. If I needed to write in markdown more regularly I'd probably buy it.
I, too, have used Typora for years whilst in Beta. I appreciated it's approach and features enough that I've paid for it.
Alternately, there's a free editor called MarkText that is maybe 85% there as compared to Typora. I use this on my work Windows machine, which is pretty locked down due to corporate policies.
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Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#58I'm the founder of a beautiful Markdown editor. Actually, two: Nota - https://nota.md . It's a notes app but a lot of our users use it as a markdown editor. Nota is quite powerful as a markdown editor. It has a lot of smartness built into it. Caret - https://caret.io . We started with this - a beautiful Markdown editor. We aren't implementing new features for it but if you are on Windows or Linux it might be worth tr…
I signed up for the early version of Nota back in 2020 and it was still beta / invite-only way back then. Then, your website said "macOS beta coming in 2021" in 2021, and now in 2022 it says "macOS beta coming in 2022".
Re: Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
#59Been really impressed with Nota http://nota.md (currently in pre-release) Got a good set of features. Not that it does anything super fancy either, it's just really _nice_. The timeline is interesting, they've been working on earlier forms of this app for about 10 years. https://nota.md/about-us.html
What kind of markdown app takes a decade to make?