Edmund

What it does

A native, lightweight macOS markdown editor with Live Preview - I7T5/Edmund. - **Live Preview**. Typora/Obsidian-style WYSIWYG - **Native, lightweight and fast**. 100% Swift. App size ~15 MB. Handles ~1-2 MB files with ease (probably larger ones, too) - **Keyboard-first**. Minimal buttons. Configurable keyboard shortcuts (in progress) - **Compatible**. Supports both GFM & Obsidian-flavored Markdown - **Privacy**. You data stays local. - **FOSS**: Free and Open-sourced

A native, lightweight macOS markdown editor with Live Preview - I7T5/Edmund

Edmund is a minimal, file-based, native Markdown editor for macOS with inline live preview. Whether as a companion alongside your Markdown knowledge base or as a standalone editor, Edmund blends in with macOS and works seamlessly with your files wherever they are. Our goal is to be the CotEditor of Markdown editors, i.e. elegant, powerful, configurable, and native inside out. ⚠️ Edmund is currently in beta. See the roadmap for what's coming next :D See my blog post for more of the motivation and design philosophy. Get Edmund.dmg from the latest release , open it, and drag Edmund.app to Applications : If macOS reports that the app is 🚧DAMAGED🚧 when you're trying to open it for the first…from github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi all, I made (yet another) Markdown editor because I couldn't find a native, macOS-first, file-based (i.e., not folder/vault-based) WYSIWYG Markdown editor / Typora alternative that feels like it's made by, or at least for, Apple. It's especially painful since I'm spoiled already by CotEditor when it…

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