Show HN: Flo State, a fast, minimalist, native Markdown editor for macOS

Posted by Altimor on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:01PM
from the show-hn dept.

Was tired of every good markdown editor out there being electron and their consuming 500mb + 3% CPU when idle(!) when they're just editing text.

So I built one from scratch in pure native. * Launches in 0.1s * Takes 0.0% CPU when idle * Consumes 50MB memory even with a large workspace open * Binary is 15MB * Supports all markdown — LaTeX, Mermaid, tables, image attachments etc * Fully open source, GPLv3 license

Hat tip to writer.computer which inspired the idea!