MarkText vs Ramble

MarkText is a free, open-source desktop Markdown editor that displays formatted text as you write. It offers WYSIWYG preview and source-code editing, plus focus and typewriter modes. Writing features include tables, KaTeX math, diagrams, footnotes, code highlighting, and YAML, TOML, and JSON front matter. Listed diagram tools include Mermaid, Vega, and Vega-Lite. The editor has 33 light and dark themes, with CSS customization available. Documents can be exported as PDF or self-contained HTML, and local files are supported. MarkText runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Installation notes require macOS 11 or later and Windows 10 or 11, and provide arm64 and x64 installers for those systems. Homebrew, Chocolatey, and Winget are also listed as installation options. The homepage says MarkText needs no account and has no tracking. It is released under the MIT License, has no subscription, and is described as a volunteer-built project.

Ramble is a web-based collaborative Markdown editor with real-time team editing and an optional AI assistant. The editor shows Markdown source beside a rendered preview and supports formatting shortcuts, paste-to-Markdown conversion, find and replace, and Markdown export. Multiple people can edit together with live cursors, automatic saving, and merged changes after reconnecting. Already-open drafts can be edited offline with browser-local recovery, but loading Ramble or opening new pages needs a network connection. The assistant can answer draft questions, suggest edits for review, or create drafts from conversation. Workspaces support owner, editor, and viewer roles, plus read-only and revocable links. The Open plan costs nothing, but new accounts and invitations are currently closed.