A comparision of Zettlr with some very popular Markdown editors in table form.
Zettlr | Typora | The Archive | Bear | nvALT | |
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Website | zettlr.com | typora.io | zettelkasten.de | bear.app | brettterpstra.com |
Price | Open Source | Proprietary | 19,99€ | Free or 15,99€/Year (Subscription) | Open Source |
Zotero Integration | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Citations (BibTex, JSON, et al.) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Project Support | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
QuickLook | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Full Zettelkasten support | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Theme Customisation | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Themes | 4+ | 4+ | 5+ | 3 (Free) / 16 (Paid) | 5+ |
Languages | da, de, en-GB, en-US, fr, it, es, hu, pl, ro, jp, zh, ru, uk | cz, de, en, es, gr, fr, glg, hr, ind, it, nl, hu, pl, pt-BR, pt-PT, ru, swe, vie, zh, jp, ko | en | en, fr, de, it, jp, ko, pt, ru, zh, es | de, en, fr, it, pt, zh |
Word counter | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Writing Statistics | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Full Text Search | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Code Highlighting | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Dark mode Support | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Markdown Preview | In-place | WYSIWYG | ❌ | In-place | WYSIWYG |
Export Formats | HTML, PDF, OpenDocument, Word, RTF, and 35 more | HTML, PDF, Word | ❌ | Markdown, RTF (Free) / PDF, HTML, Word, JPG (Paid) | Plain, HTML, Word, RTF |
File tagging and tag management | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |