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Katib is a distraction-free Markdown editor designed for right-to-left languages including Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, and Hebrew. It automatically detects the language being typed and adjusts text direction accordingly… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Katib – A Markdown Editor for Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Hebrew launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Katib▲99

    A Markdown Editor for Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Hebrew

    2014 · katibapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…

    2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →

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    kuku▲539

    Your open-source, local second brain for every AI

    Jan 2026 · kuku.mom · its alternatives →

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    There have been a few times I wanted the ability to select some text out of a Markdown doc. For example, a GitHub CI check to ensure that PRs / issues / etc are properly formatted. This can be done to some extent with regex, but those expressions are brittle and hard to read or edit later. mdq uses a familiar pipe syntax to navigate the Markdown in a structured way. It's in 0.x because I don't want to fully commit to the syntax being stable, in case real-world testing shows that the syntax needs tweaking. But I think the project is in a pretty good spot overall, and would be…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kraa 1.0▲359

    Hi HN! Excited to share the public beta of Kraa – a web-based markdown editor. It's aiming to be distraction-free and has strong separation of the document's styling from the experience of writing it — while still alowing for rich customization. Example of a leaf with custom styles: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary Curious about your feedback in hopes of improving Kraa before the planned launch later this year.

    Dec 2025 · kraa.io · its alternatives →

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    Ferrite: Fast Markdown/Text/Code editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagrams Built a Markdown editor using Rust + egui. v0.2.1 just dropped with major Mermaid improvements: → Native Mermaid diagrams - Flowcharts, sequence, state, ER, git graphs - pure Rust, no JS → Split view - Raw + rendered side-by-side with sync scrolling → Syntax highlighting - 40+ languages with large file optimization → JSON/YAML/TOML tree viewer - Structured editing with expand/collapse → Git integration - File tree shows modified/staged/untracked status Also: minimap, zen mode,…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    KanbanTab▲135

    An ideal default tab to help you efficiently organize tasks

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    MarkdownX▲258

    A new markdown editor built for the TallStack

    2021 · devdojo.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I have been developing this editor, Ki, for over a year, and have employed it substantially in all kinds of development (including Ki itself) for at least 3 months. I think it is mostly crystallized, thus I'm happy to share it with you today. Its main strength is first-class multi-cursor and structural (syntax) editing, which is a rare combination in the realm of editors (TUI or GUI alike). Hope you'll enjoy it!

    2024 · ki-editor.github.io · its alternatives →

  10. 10KA
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    Markdown editor built for the AI workflow era

    Dec 2025 · mdstudio.app · its alternatives →

  12. 12AD

    2012 · pencil.asleepysamurai.com · its alternatives →

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    A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    📝Rich Text / WYSIWYG Editor built for Modularity and Extensibility. - CannerCMS/canner-slate-editor

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Typed▲104

    New Markdown Editor for Mac by Realmac Software (pre-launch)

    2014 · realmacsoftware.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16TM
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    As we all are, I've been experimenting with ways to reduce external saas spend, and continually bring traditionally external pieces of context (prs, docs, trello boards) into the one mono repo. I have toyed with a markdown todo list and setting claude/codex into a "ralph" loop previously, but always missed the web ui for organising, planning, and tracking things in progress. So codex and I build kanban-cli, an installable or npx-runnable cli util that takes one or more markdown files, and uses markdown headers and todo syntax to track and manage agentic tasks. Let me know your thoughts,…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Writing is a lightweight distraction-free text editor, in the browser (Markdown and LaTeX supported). - josephernest/writing

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Markdown based note-taking app with git sync & kanban boards

    2023 · about.noteshub.app · its alternatives →

  20. 20SA
  21. 21WA
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    A free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS with customizable appearance profiles, optional Vim keys, and local writing corrections.

    Aug 2026 · writemd.app · its alternatives →

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    Eskéndereyya: Learn how to read and write Arabic in less than 60 minutes - samihasan/eskendereyya

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cross-platform Markdown editor

    2020 · markably.io · its alternatives →

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