Perfect pure Markdown editor

There are a number of outstanding Markdown editors out there. What distinguishes Byword is its adherence to pure text files and (Multi)Markdown. Unlike other (however excellent) editors, Byword doesn’t impose itself on your writing or workflow. It doesn’t save all your text documents in its own library, and its format is simply .md or .txt. Some editors wrap your plain text documents in their own proprietary format, and while you can sometimes dig in and extract your precious data, it’s generally quite difficult or at least complicated to do so—effectively locking your data into their format and defeating the very purpose of the open and simple Markdown format.

Byword also doesn’t impose its own escape characters on your texts. Some Markdown editors output backslashes before every “special” character that has meaning only to that editor. Your .md or .txt file is then full of backslashes that you then have to convert before opening in another program. Byword doesn’t do this either. This makes it ideal for any applications that rely on true Markdown with any “extras” that end up getting in the way.

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