
iA Writer
StackEdit
Obsidian
Dillinger
Markdown by DaringFireball
MacDown
MarkdownPad
A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.

Check Check Check
Chunk
Hotlist
CLEAR
MenuToDo
Minimal To Do
Reminders Menu Bar
Commitments is a simple, lightweight to-do app that lives in your menu bar, works offline, and never collects your data—your tasks are yours alone.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, Typora seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 94 times since March 2021.
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If you are a visual person like me, you respond to titles, headings, and specific formatting of text. This is what landed Typora on this list. Typora is extremely customizable. You can make any note in any format you...
It is very well built with simplicity in mind. There are several themes and all of them look amazing. I love the "typewriter" and "focus" mode. In contrast with other apps that focus the current window and remove all...
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


Genuinely WYSIWYG. Typora is the one that established this way of working and is still the cleanest version of it, for a single person writing prose. MarkText is the open-source answer to it and is free. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
Option 2: Dedicated markdown app.Typora, Obsidian, or similar. Better editing experience, but now you're context-switching between your code editor and your docs editor. Copy-pasting paths, losing mental context, duplicating effort. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
> I’d love some app with the polish of Bear Notes but that just edited raw Markdown files. Typora? (https://typora.io/). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Tracking Commitments since Apr 2025.
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Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
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Chunk is your time-blocking command center. Plan tasks with precision, get fullscreen alerts, and stay in flow all day. Built for focus, with calendar integration that fits your workflow.
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A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
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Manage your daily todos straight from your Mac menu bar
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