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MarsEdit

MarsEdit is a desktop blog editing application for the Mac. It provides an offline interface to most popular blogging systems. WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Movable Type, and many other systems are supported.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MarsEdit

MarsEdit
Open Live Writer Org mode Gush iA Writer Typora WordCounter.Tools Joplin Cryptee Polygraf.ai Haroopad

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to MarsEdit are Open Live Writer, Org mode, and Gush. 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.
  1. Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Journal

  2. Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Task Management #Note Taking 183 social mentions

  3. 3
    Jump over writer's block & get the creative juices flowing
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Marketing #Productivity #AI

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

    #Text Editors #Markdown Editor #Writing Tools 6 social mentions

  5. 5
    A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Knowledge Management #Markdown Editor 90 social mentions

  6. Word Counter: tool check word count and correct writing mistakes by pasting your text into our free online word counter.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    • Free Trial

    #Text Editors #Writing Tools #Writing 2 social mentions

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    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

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 356 social mentions

  8. Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • โ‚ฌ3.0 / Monthly (10GB)

    #Text Editors #Cloud Storage #Photos 79 social mentions

  9. Polygrafโ€ฏAI is a free, completely private AI Content detector that flags text from ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, Grammarly and more and traces sources and copyright risk in one click.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial

    #Marketing #Plagiarism Checker #Content Creation 2 user reviews

  10. Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Graphic Design Software #Markdown Editor

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    Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)

    #Knowledge Management #Notes #Note Taking 22 social mentions

  12. Track your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Task Management #Note Taking 42 social mentions

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