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Comparison of markdown editors: (1) Supported Operated System, (2) Price, (3) Table of content (TOC): Improve the navigation through a long-form content, (4) License, (5) Export format
Softwares
Typora — a minimal markdown reading & writing app v. 0.9.9.9.4.2 (virus scan result of mac version: ok)
- Supported OS: Win, Mac & Linux
- Price: free
- Table of content: available Menu --> View --> Toggle Outline Panel. Or input [toc][1]
- License: Proprietary
- Custom Font: Available[1]
- Export: PDF, HTML, Word (.docx), OpenOffice (.odt), RTF ... Some export formats require pandoc to be installed. Reference: Install and Use Pandoc
MacDown: The open source Markdown editor for macOS v. 0.6.x
- Supported OS: Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: not available
- License: MIT license & open source[2]
- Custom Font:
- Export: HTML & PDF
Bear - Notes for iPhone, iPad and Mac v. 1.1.2
- Supported OS: Mac
- Price: free & paid for advanced features [3]
- Table of content: not available
- License: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export: RTF for free version. PDF, HTML, DOCS, JPG for paid version. Reference: Export your notes
- Supported OS: Win & Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: available on markdown-toc
- License: MIT license & open source[4]
- Custom Font: Available[2]
- Export:
- Supported OS: Win & Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: available on package MarkdownTOC - Packages - Package Control
- License: Proprietary
- Custom Font: Available[3]
- Export:
- Supported OS: Win & Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: available on plugin GitHub - naokazuterada/MarkdownTOC: MarkdownTOC(Table Of Contents) Plugin for Sublime Text
- License: MIT License
- Custom Font:
- Export:
$ Caret v. 2.0.11
- Supported OS: Win, Mac & Linux
- Price: trial
- Table of content: not available
- License: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export: PDF, HTML
$ PhpStorm IDE v. 2017.1 + Markdown support Plugin
- Supported OS: Win, Mac & Linux
- Price: trial
- Table of content: not available
- License: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export: not available
$ EmEditor (Text Editor) + Markdown syntax file
- Supported OS: Win
- Price: Paid
- Table of content: not available
- License: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export:
$ 妙笔 - WonderPen v. 1.3.1
- Supported OS: Mac
- Price: Paid
- Table of content: Available
- License: Proprietary
- Custom Font: Available
- Export: Available: PNG, PDF, Word, Text, Html
Online services
HackMD - Collaborative markdown notes (features) [Last visited: 2017-05-06]
- Supported OS: OS independent. It's the online service.
- Price: free
- Table of content: available
- License: hackmd/LICENSE MIT license & open source[5]
- Custom Font:
- Export: Markdown, HTML & PDF