Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by anonfunction on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:29PM (#49264013)

I've been looking for a markdown editor that let's me print the rendered view and have yet to find one. Which is quite surprising given how many there are. I just use my own webapp for now, should probably open source it in case anyone else is looking for this functionality.

If you know of a nice mac app that let's me easily write / view and print markdown I'd love to hear from you!

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by thangalin on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:03PM (#49265110)

* https://keenwrite.com/

* https://keenwrite.com/screenshots.html

* https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dCui_hHK6U

My software uses ConTeXt to typeset into PDF.

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by emehex on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:59PM (#49264390)

I've been using Typora for years. It has a pretty great export/print.

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by vunderba on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:25PM (#49265330)

+1 for Typora. One of the things I like is that it gives you some flexibility in how it handles images you drag into a document for embedding purposes.

My favorite option is the one where it automatically colocates assets by creating a folder with the same name as the file, appends `.assets` to it (<filename>.assets), copies the image there, and then automatically sets up the preview and embed.

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by paulirish on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:59PM (#49265075)

Recently adopted https://github.com/marktext/marktext as I wanted the editable preview that Obsidian offers, but for all .md, not just items in my vault. I dig it so far. And it does offer printing of the render.

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by kelvinjps10 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:57PM (#49265060)

most of these editors offer pdf exports and the ones that don't they offer html ones that can easily be exported in the browser too. Isn't this enough?

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by maxweylandt on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:39PM (#49264879)

Obsidian has a pdf export, but it's overkill for just writing

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by alfons_foobar on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:51PM (#49264295)

not an app per se, but pandoc is great...

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Re:Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdow... by wyzer on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:41PM (#49264897)

vscode + pandoc ... work like a charm (incl. side by side preview)

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