#Typora on android for free#

Typewriter mode keeps the line you’re typing in the centre of the screen, again improving the focus. Focus mode fades all the paragraphs other than the one you are working on, allowing you to “focus” just on the writing. The second (and third) features that I love are the inclusion of both focus and typewriter modes, both of which can be on at the same time. I disagree, as I prefer the code to be hidden while I’m writing and editing (I’m a writer, not a coder), but for those who prefer Jason’s approach Typora includes a source code mode which turns off live preview. Amongst Markdown cognoscenti, this is a controversial thing: my friend Jason Snell, for example, hates applications which hide the Markdown code from you. When you add italics, for example, you see the text italicised on screen. But there are several features which I think make Typora a better package for writing Markdown than a plain text editor. Why not use a plain text editor rather than something which is dedicated to Markdown? You can, of course, do this - and if you have a text editor that you love using, then you should.

#Typora on android for free#

That's because Typora has been in beta and available for free for seven years, which might not be a record for a product staying in beta (hello Gmail!) but comes close. If you want a simple, good looking and reliable Markdown editor on Windows, this is the one to get. Up till now there hasn't been a Markdown editor for Windows which I've thought was good enough to recommend but thankfully now Typora has come out of its beta phase that's no longer true. Markdown editors are as common as starlings on the Mac, but on Windows there are remarkably few decent ones.