Markraft
The floating Markdown notepad for Mac.
This is 1 of 278 launches in markdown editors and documentation tools — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
256 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1267678
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Markraft
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9060289141802522
- Tags
- Open Source, Notes, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A free, open-source alternative to Raycast Notes. Press ⌥N to capture a thought over any app, then get back to work. Markraft saves plain Markdown files in a folder you choose, with live formatting and optional Vim mode. Free, open source, and no account required.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and documentation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- floating markdown notepad for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A floating desktop notepad that writes markdown files locally and supports basic hotkeys is easily built with Electron, Tauri, or Swift via AI assistance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 256 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 257 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- Flotnote · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- inkwell - Write without distraction. · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Tim's Markdown Reader · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- HydroMark · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Markpad · hn · 2026-01-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Markly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- MarkdownViewer - Free Markdown Viewer · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Markdown Viewer · ph · 2026-09-06 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a workflow automation tool for Agriculture yet.