Silens
A quiet, local-first Markdown app for focused writing
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Silens is a free, open-source Markdown writing app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Keep your words in local files, with no account required. Stay in flow with typewriter scrolling, an interface that fades as you write, sentence focus, and ambient sounds. Rediscover ideas through a timeline, tags, search, and wiki links.
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PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Writing
- Notes
- GitHub
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Yes A local-first Markdown editor with focus modes, tags, and a timeline is well within reach of a desktop framework like Electron or Tauri plus standard editor libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 186 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #109 of 187 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- A Markdown editor without the bloat · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Markling · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- inkwell - Write without distraction. · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Graphite · ph · 2026-10-22 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Paragraph Notes · ph · 2026-09-26 · 154 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- aida — Native Markdown Editor for macOS · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Quick Write · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Markdown for Mac · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45