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I've compromised a lot with Electron (because I finally had to!) but never for a lightweight text editor app. Never!

Here are some alternatives if anyone is looking

https://editorio.crncevic.org

https://macdown.app/ (FOSS)

https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit (FOSS)

And if you must have an electron one then here are some FOSS options https://marktext.me

I want to piggy-back off this: if there must be an electron application, then at least make it available on different platforms
The is refreshing. There are so many writing tools adding AI features and collaboration and everything else that a focused Markdown editor almost feels unusual now. I want to know what made you decide to keep it intentionally focused instead of turning it into a more feature-heavy editor.
I’m going to post this every time there’s a new markdown to pdf submission: quarto (https://quarto.org) is my go to tool. You can use it in R Studio, visual studio code or the cli. Uses pandoc under the hood, has support for latex and many more niceties.
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!

I've been using Typora for years. It has a pretty great export/print.
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.
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?
not an app per se, but pandoc is great...
Obsidian has a pdf export, but it's overkill for just writing
vscode + pandoc ... work like a charm (incl. side by side preview)
Are markdown editors the new todo list app?

There so many of them published, and probably thousands more that are someone's introduction to coding and just sitting is a github rotting away.

Not to be banging the same drum - but with AI it's so much easier to write a native app. No need for electron app esp. in the days when RAM costs more than a used car.
Electron? No thanks.
Especially if it's not even cross-platform...
How does this compare to Typora? That's the leader in this market as far as I can tell.
much worse than Typora. this is a very basic markdown editor for writing blog posts in "minimalist" space. and it's just free
Aside: The Typora website is horrible on mobile.
Paying Typora user here, and wondering the same.
I've started getting warnings from MacDown about how it'll stop working soon because Rosetta or something. I like the side by side view, but sadly this isn't that.

edit: Oh, electron?!

There are a ton, there is Typora (paid) and there is https://github.com/joelbqz/writer-computer (Tauri)

But Macdown is a universal binary? https://github.com/schuyler/macdown3000 So it should just keep working

There's a newer MacDown--MacDown 3000 [1]. It's a universal binary, so it'll keep running once Rosetta goes away.

[1]: https://macdown.app

Yeah, it's an electron app. Is it causing a "not good" feeling on its own, or do you have another suggestion?
That's the app I'm looking for a direct replacement for as well.
There must be something fascinating about writing Markdown apps - either it scratches an itch, or AI is really good at creating them. There's a flood of them on r/macapps and similar places.
Since it's Electron why not have a Windows version of the app too?
I mean, most of us already use either IDE or a text editor for work, so why not just type non-work markdown files in them? Be it VS Code or JetBrains.

Thread hijacking but, I wonder more why Apple keeps the built-in TextEdit at its crappy state, it would be a fantastic text editor if fixed

how is it different from obsidian?
Amazing job on this
Honestly the first time I’ve seen an app use the glass aesthetic as a selling point
I wish we can have a good markdown support with images ala GitHub (good days).
ANOTHER.md

YETANOTHER.md

YETANOTHERAGAIN.md

And of course it is MORE Electron bullshit to add to the “never install” pile. Christ. If I wanted to do everything inside a browser I WOULD FREAKING USE A BROWSER.
Why is everybody so stoked about Markdown? Isn't Asciidoc better in about every aspect?
I'm not sure people seeing "Made for Apple silicon" will expect an Electron app.
There's also MarkEdit[0], which is essentially "TextEdit for Markdown" and is definitely _not_ Electron-based:

> For perspective: at just 4 MB, MarkEdit is much smaller than Electron apps. Handling a 10 MB file with ease puts it ahead of TextKit-based editors. Performance-first editors built with Rust lack native features, while correctness alone rules out editors that rely on regex-based Markdown parsing.

[0]: https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit

small bit of feedback, "Rice it until it feels like yours." is pretty jargon heavy for a landing page, i don't think all that many people outside linux/tech use that term, why not "customize"?
For Macs, there is iA Writer already. Why don't you make something equally polished for other platforms? I am genuinely interested, I always wanted iA Writer for Linux. Everything I tried falls short.
SubEthaEdit is still around and open source. It supports Markdown side-by-side view along with numerous other languages. Excellent lightweight (26mb, native) editor, available directly via the macOS store at no cost.

https://subethaedit.net