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Add to SafariWhen comparing MultiMarkdown Composer vs iA Writer, the Slant community recommends iA Writer for most people. In the question“What are the best Markdown editors for OS X?” iA Writer is ranked 11th while MultiMarkdown Composer is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose iA Writer is:
The Noise Free Writing Experience is one of the first approaches to create a first class distraction-free environment. The feature hides the Mac program bar when you start writing.
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Pros
Pro Multimarkdown support
Not many popular Markdown editors support MultiMarkdown syntax.
Pro Multiple export options
You can export to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, RTF, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, ePub, OPML.
Pro Table of Contents support
Generates a table of contents based on the headers in the Markdown file being worked on.
Pro Support for elastic tabstops
Elastic tabstops are used to align text automatically during writing. When there's a change in the text, MultiMarkdown Composer automatically aligns all lines both on the beginning and end of them.
Pro CriticMarkup support
Pro Optional synchronized scrolling
Hold a key down and get synchronized scrolling.
Pro Fast syntax highlighting
Pro Highly customizable
Pro Counts words, characters, lines
Pro Can show invisible characters
Pro Noise Free Writing Experience removes even the program bar
The Noise Free Writing Experience is one of the first approaches to create a first class distraction-free environment. The feature hides the Mac program bar when you start writing.
Pro A mode that brings focus to the sentence you're working on
Enabling Focus Mode will dim the whole text except the sentence you are currently writing on.
Pro Can tell how long it would take to read through what you've written
Pro Markdown support
Pro Syncs using iCloud and Dropbox
iA Writer can sync documents using iCloud or Dropbox from within the editor for use across multiple devices.
Pro Create whole document by including separate images/markdown docs
This is new and very awesome feature in iA Writer 4.0.
Pro Can export a Word document
Pro Available for all Apple devices
iA Writer is available for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Cons
Con Table of contents gets out of sync sometimes
If you keep the auto-generated table of contents open while you work it gets out of sync, meaning items in the table of contents (at the end) disappear until you restart the program.
Con The way the preview shows images is inconsistent
The preview is a bit inconsistent with images. Sometimes it shows the image correctly, sometimes it shows a blue question mark.
Con No Linux support
