Byword vs. JavaScript vs. MarkPad vs. Markdown Pro Comparison Chart

Draft a blog post, write that story or complete a school report wherever you are. Use Markdown to format text with easy keyboard shortcuts, subtle syntax highlighting, word counters with live update, and much more. All your documents, on all your devices. With iCloud and Dropbox, you can create documents in Byword on your Mac and access them on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. And vice versa. You can edit them from anywhere, on any device you use. Byword includes complete Markdown support. Preview your documents in app, export to HTML, PDF, rich text, or publish directly to Medium, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and Evernote. The lack of support for rich text is due to technical limitations and limited development resources. We are evaluating the cost/benefit of investing in rich text support of iOS. Meanwhile, we strongly recommend opting for plain text and markdown format for your documents. Macworld has a great article explaining why opting for plain text today is a good idea.

Markdown is easy to grok, but how do you know its going to turn out perfect? A side-by-side preview, rendered in real time, thats how! Feature rich, open and save directly to your blog, github and more, paste images from the clipboard into Markdown, Jekyll Site and Open from folder support plus much more! Markdown can be done in any text editor, but why must the experience degrade to Notepad? No more, MarkPad has spellchecker and a floating syntax tool bar. MarkPad is an editor for Markdown, a widely used syntax for formatting plain text to convert to blogs, comments, and in other places like on Stack Overflow. Our aim is to create a useably, stylish new version of the project utilizing Microsoft's WPF technology to provide a fresh UI for creating files that we can use to create blog posts for this, and other blogs using Markdown.