Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MarkText.app

Product categories

Developer Tools IDE Knowledge Management Markdown Editor Markdown Viewer Note Taking Notes Office & Productivity Personal Notes Software Development Text Editors Todos

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to MarkText.app are Typora, Zettlr, and Joplin. 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.

Typora Landing Page
1

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions
Zettlr Landing Page
2

Zettlr

Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Markdown Editor #Knowledge Management 10 social mentions
Joplin Landing Page
3

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions
StackEdit Landing Page
4

StackEdit

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
Haroopad Landing Page
5

Haroopad

Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Graphic Design Software
iA Writer Landing Page
6

iA Writer

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $29.99 / One-off
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Writing Tools 6 social mentions
MacDown Landing Page
7

MacDown

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
Boostnote Landing Page
8

Boostnote

Boostnote is an open-source note-taking app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions
Notable App Landing Page
9

Notable App

The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Notes #Note Taking #Todos 33 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
10

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1008 social mentions
Standard Notes Landing Page
11

Standard Notes

A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
12

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions