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

cube00

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

drcongo

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?!

swiftcoder

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

jasonpeacock

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.

nikhila57

how is it different from obsidian?

ForHackernews

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

mrbombastic

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"?

gritzko

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.

OvidStavrica

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

hartator

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

Sha1rholder

ANOTHER.md YETANOTHER.md YETANOTHERAGAIN.md

noelectron

Electron? No thanks.

yboris

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

brycewray

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

olav

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

anonfunction

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!

jdjejcjwjdj

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.

crossroadsguy

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

arajnoha

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