Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

I’m going to post this every time there’s a new markdown to pdf submission: quarto (https://quarto.org) is my go to tool. You can use it in R Studio, visual studio code or the cli. Uses pandoc under the hood, has support for latex and many more niceties.

Are markdown editors the new todo list app?

There so many of them published, and probably thousands more that are someone's introduction to coding and just sitting is a github rotting away.

I've compromised a lot with Electron (because I finally had to!) but never for a lightweight text editor app. Never!

Here are some alternatives if anyone is looking

https://editorio.crncevic.org

https://macdown.app/ (FOSS)

https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit (FOSS)

And if you must have an electron one then here are some FOSS options https://marktext.me

I've been looking for a markdown editor that let's me print the rendered view and have yet to find one. Which is quite surprising given how many there are. I just use my own webapp for now, should probably open source it in case anyone else is looking for this functionality.

If you know of a nice mac app that let's me easily write / view and print markdown I'd love to hear from you!

Electron? No thanks.

I mean, most of us already use either IDE or a text editor for work, so why not just type non-work markdown files in them? Be it VS Code or JetBrains.

Thread hijacking but, I wonder more why Apple keeps the built-in TextEdit at its crappy state, it would be a fantastic text editor if fixed

Since it's Electron why not have a Windows version of the app too?

There must be something fascinating about writing Markdown apps - either it scratches an itch, or AI is really good at creating them. There's a flood of them on r/macapps and similar places.

how is it different from obsidian?

How does this compare to Typora? That's the leader in this market as far as I can tell.

Honestly the first time I’ve seen an app use the glass aesthetic as a selling point

I've started getting warnings from MacDown about how it'll stop working soon because Rosetta or something. I like the side by side view, but sadly this isn't that.

edit: Oh, electron?!

I wish we can have a good markdown support with images ala GitHub (good days).

ANOTHER.md

YETANOTHER.md

YETANOTHERAGAIN.md

And of course it is MORE Electron bullshit to add to the “never install” pile. Christ. If I wanted to do everything inside a browser I WOULD FREAKING USE A BROWSER.

Why is everybody so stoked about Markdown? Isn't Asciidoc better in about every aspect?

I'm not sure people seeing "Made for Apple silicon" will expect an Electron app.

There's also MarkEdit[0], which is essentially "TextEdit for Markdown" and is definitely _not_ Electron-based:

> For perspective: at just 4 MB, MarkEdit is much smaller than Electron apps. Handling a 10 MB file with ease puts it ahead of TextKit-based editors. Performance-first editors built with Rust lack native features, while correctness alone rules out editors that rely on regex-based Markdown parsing.

[0]: https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit

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small bit of feedback, "Rice it until it feels like yours." is pretty jargon heavy for a landing page, i don't think all that many people outside linux/tech use that term, why not "customize"?

For Macs, there is iA Writer already. Why don't you make something equally polished for other platforms? I am genuinely interested, I always wanted iA Writer for Linux. Everything I tried falls short.

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SubEthaEdit is still around and open source. It supports Markdown side-by-side view along with numerous other languages. Excellent lightweight (26mb, native) editor, available directly via the macOS store at no cost.

https://subethaedit.net