Unmarked# Compare
The right Markdown app for your Mac
Pick the app you’re weighing to see where it and Unmarked part ways. When the job is one Markdown file, start with Unmarked.
Unmarked comparisons
01BearUnmarked edits the Markdown file itself. When an AI assistant, a script or git changes it, the open window picks up the change moments later and holds your spot.Read comparison02LetteraLettera, from the Bear team, is a closed beta that isn't taking new testers. Unmarked is released and free. It writes in place, gives the finished document a Read view of its own, edits tables as a grid and turns headings into slides.Read comparison03TyporaUnmarked styles Markdown as you type, much as Typora does. It also opens the finished file in a view with no editor in it, turns it into slides and writes Word files itself, equations included. It's free.Read comparison04iA WriterUnmarked shows Markdown styled as you write it, with the marks hidden until your cursor reaches them. Tables edit as a grid in the same window, and the finished file has a reading view of its own.Read comparison05UlyssesUnmarked works on the .md file itself, wherever it sits in Finder, and saves each change back to it. You write on a styled page, read in a separate view and present from the same document.Read comparison06ObsidianObsidian connects a library of notes. Unmarked gives one file its own window, edits its tables as a grid, presents it from its headings and exports it to Word or HTML with the math and code intact.Read comparison07Visual Studio CodeVS Code keeps Markdown next to the code, the diffs and the agents. Unmarked opens the same file as a document you read and edit in place, then present or export to PDF, Word or HTML.Read comparison08MarkEditMarkEdit is a lean source editor you extend. Unmarked arrives with a Read view, typeset math, colored code and a table grid, and it carries all of that into slides, PDF, Word and HTML.Read comparison09MarkTextBoth editors are free, and both format Markdown as you type. On a Mac they part ways at install, and again when the document needs to leave as a .docx or a set of slides.Read comparison10MarkedMarked shows a Markdown file you write somewhere else. Unmarked shows it too, then lets you edit it, table cells included, and present it as slides from the same window.Read comparison11MacDownMacDown puts raw Markdown in one pane and a rendered preview in the other, and every edit happens in the raw one. Unmarked formats the document while you write, edits tables on a grid and turns the finished file into a deck or a .docx.Read comparison
The whole file comes through
A Markdown file often carries more than headings and lists: equations, code in a few languages, a table with hundreds of rows, a Mermaid diagram. Unmarked carries all of it into Read, onto full-screen slides and into the PDF, Word or HTML file you send.
Read and Write are two separate views, one ⌘E apart, each with its own typography. Tables are grids you select and edit a block at a time. Files open from Finder and save in place, one document to a window, and when another app rewrites the file, the window follows. There is no account, cloud service or analytics layer.