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Nodes
Free, native Markdown Editor for Mac. No Electron, no cloud.
Nodes is a native macOS Markdown editor with a clean, typographic interface that renders math, tables and code beautifully. Fully local, no cloud, no account. Free, and built on an open-source Markdown engine.
Hi everyone,
I'm part of a small student team in Munich, and we built Nodes, a native macOS Markdown editor.
It started with our own note-taking. We kept diaries of ideas in Markdown and kept noticing how thoughts connected to older ones, but linking them by hand was a constant chore. We wanted something that felt truly native to the Mac, kept everything local, and got out of the way while writing.
So Nodes is:
100% native (SwiftUI), no Electron, no webview
Fully local, no cloud, no account
A clean, typographic interface that renders LaTeX math, tables and syntax-highlighted code inline
Free (we cover Apple's $99/yr dev fee ourselves)
We also open-sourced the Markdown engine it runs on, a TextKit 2 engine bridged to SwiftUI (link below).
To be honest about where we are: right now you still link notes manually, like in Obsidian. The real goal is for Nodes to surface the connections between your notes for you, and on-device AI is how we plan to get there. We're not there yet, but that's the direction.
We'd love your feedback, the good and the brutal. I'll be around all day to answer anything.
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“Free, native Markdown Editor for Mac. No Electron, no cloud.”
Nodes was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #81 on the daily leaderboard. Nodes is a native macOS Markdown editor with a clean, typographic interface that renders math, tables and code beautifully. Fully local, no cloud, no account. Free, and built on an open-source Markdown engine.
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