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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.

Top 11 Open-Source Alternatives to LightPaper

Typora Dillinger StackEdit HedgeDoc PHP Markdown MacDown iA Writer Markdown Live Preview Visual Studio Code Boostnote

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to LightPaper are Typora, Dillinger, and StackEdit. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions

  2. joemccann has 95 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 23 social mentions

  3. Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 49 social mentions

  4. HedgeDoc is one of the attractive markdown editors that entitles you to easily make bites, graphs, and presentations in no time and lets you export it to many cloud storage platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox so that your co-workers can instantly a…
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Office & Productivity #Tool #Markdown Editor 30 social mentions

  5. PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity

  6. MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 7 social mentions

  7. Minimal Design, Maximum Focus
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $29.99 / One-off

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Writing 6 social mentions

  8. Stop guessing about your Markdown formatting 📝
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Productivity #Markdown Editor 12 social mentions

  9. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions

  10. Boostnote is an open-source note-taking​ app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions

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    Vim

    Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions

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