Best MarkText.app Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.

Open Source

Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.

Open Source

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Try for free paid Free Trial $3.0 (3$ per 1 Gb)

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

Open Source

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.

Open Source free

Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents.

Open Source

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.

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus

Open Source paid Free Trial $29.99 / One-off

A web-based and Markdown-based note-taking app that's reimagining writing experience in Markdown that everyone can enjoy.

free

MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.

Open Source

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

Markdown pastebin/publishing service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.

The note-taking app with robust Markdown editor, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The fastest way to take notes and collaborate with friends. Create notecards with Markdown, LaTeX, images, emojis and more. Get started for free!

freemium