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MarkText vs Cedilla: catalog facts
MarkText	Cedilla
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence, funded by community sponsorship.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Linux
Live in-place rendering with no preview pane and no leftover syntax characters CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown and some Pandoc Markdown, plus KaTeX maths	Native app for the COSMIC desktop Focused on Markdown editing
Development is slow, with long gaps between releases Electron, so it is heavy for a text editor	Designed around COSMIC, less at home on other desktops Linux only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-3.0-only
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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