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Native macOS Markdown editor with a live, editable preview: write in the source or straight in the preview. LaTeX, Mermaid, Graphviz and PlantUML offline, export to PDF, HTML and Word. Rust on AppKit, no Electron.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 29, 2026 · 45 upvotes (top 37%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- appkit
- gfm
- latex
- live-preview
- macos
- macos-app
- +7 more
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Partial The Markdown source editor and export pipeline are buildable, but a native AppKit editor with live, bidirectional editable preview and offline diagram rendering is hard UI and rendering work.
What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app with AppKit (via Rust bindings or Swift) and a text engine that keeps source and rendered preview in sync. Offline LaTeX, Mermaid, Graphviz, and PlantUML rendering need bundled engines, and PDF, HTML, and Word export need layout work. Editing the preview directly is the hardest part and needs experienced macOS and text-rendering engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 317 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #141 of 318 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Markling · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Markly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Markdown Viewer · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50