Writing
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.
★ 5.8k starsMIT
View guide →📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
marktext is an open-source writing project by marktext (marktext/marktext on GitHub). It has 62,087 GitHub stars and 4,584 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 3 October 2026.
Novel, notes, docs site, or blog — each tool majors in one.
Distraction-free editors with themes that suit long sessions.
Chapters, tags, wikis, or versioned docs as the project grows.
Export to ebook, print, or deploy a docs site.
Plain-text Markdown keeps your content portable forever.
Markdown keeps your words portable forever.
Interfaces designed for flow state, not toolbars.
Review and comment workflows for teams.
Own your publishing platform and your audience.
Never lose a draft; diff every change.
Download the source and move into the project folder.
git clone https://github.com/marktext/marktext.git
cd marktextEvery project documents its own setup; start with install requirements.
cat README.md | head -60Follow the project's launch command — Docker, pip, npm, or a binary release.
# see README for the exact launch commandIt is an open-source project at marktext/marktext with 4,584 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to see how active maintenance is.
MIT licensed — use it commercially, no strings attached.
Ebook and print pipelines are production-ready.
Grammar and style tools are mature; drafting assistants vary by model.
Local-first tools keep every word on your machine.
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.
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