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LightPaper VS MacDown

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LightPaper logo LightPaper

Admired by thousands, LightPaper is a powerful markdown editor with features such as Multi-Tabs, Folder Navigator, Distraction Free Mode, Quick Open, Live Preview, Full GFM Support, Math rendering etc.

MacDown logo MacDown

MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.
  • LightPaper Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-24
  • MacDown Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-09-30

LightPaper videos

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EthicHub Lightpaper Review

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MacDown videos

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BARRAS DE CORTE DA MACDOWN | APRESENTANDO MODs | FS19

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to LightPaper and MacDown)

LightPaper

MacDown

Text Editors
29 29%
Text Editors
71% 71
Markdown Editor
31 31%
Markdown Editor
69% 69
Markdown Viewer
28 28%
Markdown Viewer
72% 72
Tool
100 100%
Tool
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, MacDown seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

LightPaper mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of LightPaper yet. Tracking of LightPaper recommendations started around Mar 2021.

MacDown mentions (7)

  • Epub rendering with Pandoc
    I write a LOT of documentation in Markdown for $DAYJOB. I normally use Marked2 (not free, but I paid for my license 7-8 years ago) or MacDown (free) to preview them, and to export them to PDF. Both of these programs are specific to macOS, but a web search for "markdown editor" turns up a few dozen others, for other platforms. Most of these will have an "export to PDF" function built into them. Source: 5 months ago
  • Good Free Application For Reading `.md` Files On Mac Pro
    MacDown is free, open source and super simple. Has been my go-to Markdown editor for years. Highly recommend. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Ask HN: Is there any beautiful Markdown editor?
    Macdown: https://macdown.uranusjr.com/ And here's a huge list: https://github.com/mundimark/awesome-markdown-editors. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • High probability of conversion issues from PDF to Epub
    So I convert the PDF to Markdown format. Then I use my Markdown editor of choice, Macdown, to clean up the text and then convert the resulting document into the format that I want. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Markdown editor's with a toolbar?
    If you're talking about buttons to help you style your text so you don't have to remember the syntax, then MacDown will have you covered. Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing LightPaper and MacDown, you can also consider the following products

Typora - A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.

Markdown by DaringFireball - Text-to-HTML conversion tool/syntax for web writers, by John Gruber

Dillinger - joemccann has 95 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Minimalist Markdown Editor - This is the simplest and slickest Markdown editor.

StackEdit - Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.

MarkdownPad - MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows. Features:

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