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

GitHub Gist
Lepton
SnippetsLab
Quiver
Cacher
Codespace
Pastebin.com
An open-source desktop workspace for developers: code snippets, technical notes, HTTP requests, calculations, and developer tools in one local-first app.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, Typora seems to be a lot more popular than massCode. While we know about 94 links to Typora, we've tracked only 6 mentions of massCode.
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massCode is an open-source desktop workspace for developers, available on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It brings together code snippets, technical notes, a full-featured HTTP client, calculations, and developer tools. Keep code, documentation, and API requests together and link related entries...
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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...
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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 / 2 months 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 / 5 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 / 7 months ago
To be honest, it didn't take off as I hoped. I struggled to attract enough users to make it sustainable. Eventually, I lost motivation and abandoned it to focus on my other open-source project, massCode. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago
`cask "lepton"` [link][oss] + `cask "masscode"` [link][oss] for storing snippets as github gists or locally. Source: over 3 years ago
There are a plethora of snippet manager apps for developers, with syntax highlighting, etc, available for macOS, eg: - SnipperApp - Snip - massCode - SnippetsLab - Quiver. Source: about 4 years ago
When comparing Typora and massCode, you can also consider the following products.


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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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Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
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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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SnippetsLab is an easy-to-use snippets manager.
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