iA Writer Alternatives

MacDown is a free and open-source markdown editor for macOS. MacDown provides live preview, syntax highlighting and a minimalistic appearance for easy Markdown formatting. The editor is influenced by Mou, and I try to mimic much of its behaviour as much as possible both in UI and the logic. MacDown is loved and use by many thanks to its highly customisable Markdown rendering options, syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks, and sophisticated auto-completion.

Haroopad is a free and open-source markdown editor or document processor for creating web-friendly documents. The application gives you the same editing experience regardless of the platform you are working on. Haroopad is avalible for macOS, Linux and Windows.

Zettlr is a web-based MarkDown editor built for the 21st century. As writing has become an essential part of our everyday life, Zettlr has made it its mission to redefine what writing means. The slim, fast, and versatile MarkDown editor let's you focus on whats important, to write and publish.

Bear is a beautiful, flexible writing application for crafting notes and prose. The app is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac and is quick and easy to reach for when inspiration strikes. Writers, lawyers, chefs, teachers, engineers, students, parents, and more use Bear to take notes and write. Bear provides an advanced markup editor with support syntax highlighting for over 150 programming languages and support for Markdown. The editor also allow for rich previews during the time of writing so that you can see the actual prose, not code. Each note can be individually encrypted and the application itself can be locked and opened with Face or Touch ID allowing you to protect sensitive information. Bear is available for free, while also providing premium feature via a subscription-based Pro version.