Tools to support your markdown authoring
Markdown is automatically rendered to html GitHub but can easily be parsed into a variety of other formats including PDF and LaTex. To convert seamlessly to these formats, you'll need a document converter. Pandoc is one such open source tool that is available on all platforms. You'll need to install a local copy to be able to run all the examples in this repo.
Pandoc is a universal document converter. It works from the command line and you can quickly convert a document between any two formats. These include nearly all formats commonly used for scientific writing such as Word, Markdown, Latex, HTML and RTF.
VS Code is a flexible text editor which supports Markdown by default. It is also extensible and by adding Markdown All in One extension it becomes a Markdown power-horse. By supporting GitHub-flavored Markdown and shortcuts, outlining and ToC, it becomes an universal formatted-text editor and can be used for a variety of purposes.
Atom is "a hackable text editor for the 21st Century," with a vibrant community, built-in package manager, integrated Markdown previewer, and more.
MarkRight is a minimalistic, GitHub-flavoured, open source, and Electron-based editor for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Typora is a minimalistic Electron-based editor for Mac, Windows and Linux; includes live preview.
iA Writer a text editor for Mac, has, among others, formatted Word to Markdown and Markdown to Word conversion.
Texts is rich Markdown editor, with multiple export options (e.g. PDF, Microsoft Word, LaTeX, HTML, ePub) for Windows and OS X. Free trial or $29 to buy.
ByWord is a simple text editor for OS X and iOS.
Mou is a simple, free, and powerful Markdown editor/previewer for OS X.
Markdown Edit is an Open Source Markdown editor for Windows with an emphasis on content and keyboard shortcuts. There is minimal window chrome and most functions are accessed through keyboard shortcuts. There is no main menu, status bar, tabbed windows or other distractions.
MarkdownPad is a Markdown editor for Windows. Both a Free and a Pro version exist; the latter adds support for (amongst other things) GitHub Flavored Markdown and Markdown Extra (including Tables).
"MultiMarkdown Composer is a text editor for Mac that is designed from the ground up around the MultiMarkdown Syntax. It is designed to make writing in MultiMarkdown (or Markdown) even easier than it already is, with automatic syntax highlighting, built in previews, easy export to any format that is supported by MultiMarkdown, and more!" http://multimarkdown.com.
ReText is an open-source, platform-independent editor for both Markdown and reStructuredText.
uText is an open-source Python/GTK3-based markdown editor fo Linux; includes live preview (Ubuntu & Debian packages available). link2, Launchpad, Github.
Qute, is an open source, platform-independent Mozilla-Chromeless-based editor for Markdown with MathJax-integrated live-preview.
CuteMarkEd, is a Qt-based, free and open source Markdown editor with live HTML preview, math expressions, code and markdown syntax highlighting. Builds are available for Windows and Fedora.
Tabs To Spaces Converter / Code block formatter is an open source web tool that easily converts tabs to spaces or adds 4 spaces infront of every row to easily paste code from an IDE to markdown and have it formatted as a codeblock.
Dillinger.io is a web-based Markdown editor.
Tables generator allows you quick and easy generation of markdown formatted tables. Other formats such as LaTex are also supported.
Draft is a web-based markdown editor with cloud sync, image hosting and analytics.
Markable is another web-based markdown editor with export and integration options.
StackEdit is an open source web app with cloud sync, local storage. It uses Stackexchange's PageDown implementation.
Marked is a markdown previewer for OS X.
TextMate is a commercial text editor for OS/X, which includes a built-in Markdown previewer that can be invoked with a single keystroke.
McViewer is a simple viewer for Windows. Nothing to install, just one file.
Markdowner is a simple open-source Python/GTK-based editor/viewer for Linux; includes live preview. Launchpad.
bzr checkout 'http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jezra/markdowner/trunk/' markdowner
Markdown-editor is a simple open-source Python/Qt-based editor/viewer for Linux; includes live preview.
QOwnNotes is an open-source Qt-based file notepad with markdown support and ownCloud integration for Linux, Windows, OS X; includes live preview, autosaving.