HUI
A native, local-first Markdown editor. No WebView.
Details
- External ID
- 1249047
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- HUI
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, GitHub, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Description
A calm space for Markdown, built with Rust and Slint instead of a WebView. Edit source, use a synchronized split preview, or focus on reading. Includes nine interface languages, syntax highlighting, local images, math, Mermaid diagrams, themes and adjustable typography. Free and open source, with macOS, Windows and Linux downloads. Version 0.2.0 is a development preview; live editing and rendering compatibility are still evolving.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- native local-first markdown editor
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a custom, native non-WebView desktop Markdown editor in Rust using Slint requires deep systems programming, custom text layout rendering, and complex native document synchronization.
What it would actually take: Built with Rust and the Slint UI toolkit, this requires writing native text layout and editing components, an integrated syntax highlighter (e.g. syntect), and custom renderers for KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams directly to native vector graphics canvases without relying on Chromium/Blink engines. Writing a synchronized split view with non-HTML DOM diffing requires significant GUI systems and compiler/parser expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Markling · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- A Markdown editor without the bloat · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Markpad · hn · 2026-01-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Lobster.js · hn · 2026-03-08 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing · hn · 2026-07-25 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Markdown Visual · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Quikdown · hn · 2026-06-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Moji · ph · 2026-09-11 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
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