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Astro Editor vs ReText: catalog facts
Astro Editor	ReText
Free Free downloads from the project's GitHub releases.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 or later.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux
Frontmatter shown as forms built from Zod schemas Focus and typewriter modes for prose	Handles Markdown, reStructuredText, Textile and AsciiDoc Custom markup support through Python modules
Only useful for Astro content collections Linux build is in beta	Fewer features than full code editors Project documentation lives mainly in the repository
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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