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Pine alternatives for AI agents.

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A modern, native macOS markdown editor

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#1

MiaoYan

Similarity 155Trust 94Excellent 100

⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.

8.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add tw93/MiaoYan
#2

MarkEdit

Similarity 146Trust 92Excellent 100

Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.

5.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit
#3

Clearly

Similarity 134Trust 89Excellent 96

Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and iPadOS

1.0K starsMay 28, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add Shpigford/clearly
#4

Markdown Preview

Similarity 132Trust 86Excellent 87

A simple Markdown viewer for reading .md files

997 starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add pluk-inc/markdown-preview
#5

HighlightedTextEditor

Similarity 131Trust 75Promising 55

A SwiftUI view for dynamically highlighting user input

759 starsJun 13, 2024 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add kyle-n/HighlightedTextEditor
#6

Retext

Similarity 131Trust 92Excellent 100

ReText: Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText

2.0K starsMay 19, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonMarkdown
$ npx skills add retext-project/retext
#7

Markdown Playgrounds

Similarity 130Trust 75Needs review 54

A Markdown Editor that can execute Swift code

576 starsJan 10, 2020 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add objcio/markdown-playgrounds
#8

Swift Markdown Ui

Similarity 129Trust 92Excellent 97

Maintenance mode — new development in Textual: https://github.com/gonzalezreal/textual

3.9K starsDec 28, 2025 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add gonzalezreal/swift-markdown-ui
#9

Marktext

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

57K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add marktext/marktext
#10

Md

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 100

✍ WeChat Markdown Editor | 一款高度简洁的微信 Markdown 编辑器:支持 Markdown 语法、自定义主题样式、内容管理、多图床、AI 助手等特性

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add doocs/md
#11

Milkdown

Similarity 126Trust 95Excellent 100

🍼 Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework.

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add Milkdown/milkdown
#12

Markor

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Text editor - Notes & ToDo (for Android) - Markdown, todo.txt, plaintext, math, ..

5.7K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaMarkdown
$ npx skills add gsantner/markor
#13

Marksmith

Similarity 124Trust 85Excellent 85

GitHub-style markdown editor for Ruby and Rails

549 starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add avo-hq/marksmith
#14

Floral Notepaper

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

花笺,轻量优雅的跨平台桌面便签工具,支持 Markdown 编辑与预览

4.0K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustMarkdown
$ npx skills add Achilng/floral-notepaper
#15

Editor

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

A rich text editor React component for markdown

3.5K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add mdx-editor/editor
#16

MarkdownEditing

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

Powerful Markdown package for Sublime Text with better syntax understanding and good color schemes.

3.3K starsMay 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonMarkdown
$ npx skills add SublimeText-Markdown/MarkdownEditing

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