Markdown editors
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, virus scan result of windows version 0.9.48 (beta): ok)
- Supported OS: Win, Mac & Linux
- Price: free
- Table of content: available Menu --> View --> Toggle Outline Panel. Or input [toc][1]
- Software 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
- Syndication: n/a
MacDown: The open source Markdown editor for macOS v. 0.7.2.x
- Supported OS: Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: not available
- Software license: MIT license & open source[2]
- Custom Font:
- Export: HTML & PDF
- Syndication:
CotEditor -Text Editor for macOS
- Supported OS: Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: available on Outline menu
- Software license: Apache License, Version 2.0 & open source on github
- Custom Font:
- Export: not available
- Syndication: not available
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
- Software license: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export: RTF for free version. PDF, HTML, DOCS, JPG for paid version. Reference: Export your notes
- Syndication: available for paid version: Syncing your notes with Bear Pro - Bear - Faq and support.
- Supported OS: Win & Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: available on markdown-toc
- Software license: MIT license & open source[4]
- Custom Font: Available[2]
- Export:
- Syndication: n/a
- Supported OS: Win & Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: available on package MarkdownTOC - Packages - Package Control
- Software license: Proprietary
- Custom Font: Available[3]
- Export:
- Syndication: n/a
- Supported OS: Win & Mac
- Price: free
- Table of content: available on plugin GitHub - naokazuterada/MarkdownTOC: MarkdownTOC(Table Of Contents) Plugin for Sublime Text
- Software license: MIT License
- Custom Font:
- Export:
- Syndication: n/a
Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined v. 1.22.2
- Supported OS: Win, Mac & Linux
- Price: free
- Table of content: Available on extension Markdown editing with Visual Studio Code. After installed the extension --> Open the markdown file --> Right menu: Markdown TOC: Insert/Update
- Software license: "The source code is available under the MIT license agreement." Details on License - Visual Studio Code.
- Custom Font: Available
- Export: n/a
- Syndication: n/a
$ Marked v. 2.5.10
- Supported OS: Mac
- Price: trial
- Table of content: Available
- Software license: Proprietary
- Custom Font: CSS
- Export: PDF, HTML, RTFD, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, Markdown, OPML
- Syndication: n/a
$ Caret v. 2.0.11
- Supported OS: Win, Mac & Linux
- Price: trial
- Table of content: not available
- Software license: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export: PDF, HTML
- Syndication:
$ PhpStorm IDE v. 2017.1 + Markdown support Plugin
- Supported OS: Win, Mac & Linux
- Price: trial
- Table of content: not available
- Software license: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export: not available
- Syndication: n/a
$ EmEditor (Text Editor) + Markdown syntax file
- Supported OS: Win
- Price: Paid
- Table of content: not available
- Software license: Proprietary
- Custom Font:
- Export:
- Syndication: n/a
$ 妙笔 - WonderPen v. 1.3.1
- Supported OS: Mac
- Price: Paid
- Table of content: Available
- Software license: Proprietary
- Custom Font: Available
- Export: Available: PNG, PDF, Word, Text, Html
- Syndication: Available
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
- Software license: hackmd/LICENSE MIT license & open source[5]
- Custom Font:
- Export: Markdown, HTML & PDF
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