WWriterAlts

ghostwriter

Markdown editor with a clean preview, from the KDE project

★ Stars5k5,017 on GitHub
Last commit17 Oct 2026
LicenceGPL-3.0SPDX, from the repository
View on GitHub ↗

From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026.

Visit ghostwriter.kde.org ↗

ghostwriter is a free markdown editor with a distraction-free mode, live preview and export via Pandoc. It is maintained as part of the KDE office tools.

Free alternative to

In collections

Related tools

M

MarkText

Distraction-free editors

Real-time preview markdown editor

Stars
★ 62.9k
Licence
MIT
Updated

Alternative to Ulysses, Typora

Zettlr

Distraction-free editors

Markdown IDE for writers and researchers with citations

Stars
★ 13.8k
Licence
GPL-3.0
Updated

Alternative to Ulysses, Scrivener

novelWriter

Novel & long-form writing

Markdown novel editor with a project tree and plain-text storage

Stars
★ 3.2k
Licence
GPL-3.0
Updated

Alternative to Scrivener, Ulysses

FocusWriter

Distraction-free editors

Full-screen distraction-free writer with goals and themes

Stars
★ 721
Licence
GPL-3.0
Updated

Alternative to Ulysses, Scrivener

Apostrophe

Distraction-free editors

GNOME markdown writer with a focus mode

Stars
★ 111
Licence
GPL-3.0
Updated

Alternative to Ulysses

iA Writer

Distraction-free editors

Focused markdown writing app for Apple and Windows

Licence
Proprietary
Status
Proprietary

Alternative to Ulysses, Scrivener