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Typora VS MacType

Compare Typora VS MacType and see what are their differences

Typora logo Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.

MacType logo MacType

MacType render windows font smoothly and much more convenient to read.
  • Typora Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-23
  • MacType Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-11-01

Typora videos

Building a File Structure in Typora

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  • Review - Best note-taking software for programmers - Typora

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Category Popularity

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Markdown Editor
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Fonts
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Text Editors
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Web Fonts
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Reviews

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Typora Reviews

  1. Simplicity and elegance

    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 visibility options, Typora goes one step ahead and fades down all other paragraphs as well.

    👍 Pros:    Beautiful themes|Typewriter mode|Focus mode

10 Best Note Taking Apps for Windows in 2020
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 choose. The markdown editor formats text as you type, making note-taking quicker and more effective. You can even create a table of contents to look at specific...

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Typora should be more popular than MacType. It has been mentiond 84 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.

Typora mentions (84)

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MacType mentions (15)

  • Text Fringing? looks bad on the new Samsung OLED G9...
    Download Mactype. If you download the beta version (warning: it will trip windows defender) you can use one of the QD-OLED profiles, if you download the last stable version (has an installer and will not trip Windows defneder), use a grayscale rendered font like this one. It doesn't work on chromium browsers though so you're gonna have to use Firefox if you want it to be on your browser. Source: 11 months ago
  • [HUB] One YEAR Using The Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED - My Thoughts
    Already supported in WPF and DirectWrite. AFAIK DirectWrite by default only uses y-axis at large font sizes. I think MacType enables it system-wide. Source: about 1 year ago
  • [Oled_Gaming] Bessere Textwiedergabe für OLED-Displays (ClearType loswerden)
    Step 2: Install it from the MacType homepage, it is an open-source project so it seems safe to me. I recommend installing it in "Load with MacTray" -> "Standalone Mode". Source: about 1 year ago
  • Recently got Windows 11, is there a way to fix this? The squished font looks terrible.
    You could try this : Https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype. Source: over 1 year ago
  • AW3423DW
    I also use Mactype enabled as well with UnadvisedApollo's ini, and followed his steps for Mactype. Source: over 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Typora and MacType, you can also consider the following products

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

gdipp - The gdipp project is a replacement of the Windows text render, which brings to you the effect of...

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ClearType Tuner PowerToy - Windows XP and Vista users can use the online ClearType Tuner, or the ClearType PowerToy to...

Joplin - Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.

fontconfig - Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access. Fontconfig can: