Zettlr
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 18, 2025first mention
Sep 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If you want a good editor for that have a look at”
“I switched to Zettlr last year and I like it much better.”
switched from Obsidianon “Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline”
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“If you really want a good markdown editor better have a look at https://www.zettlr.com/”
“I recently switched from Obsidian to Zettlr due to some rendering and performance issues on Linux, and it's been a great experience.”
“I do pay for others like zettlr”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web 2 mentions
- Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering 2 mentions
- Pandoc Templates 1 mention
- Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers 1 mention
- Why the heck are we still using Markdown? 1 mention
- Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline 1 mention
Data: zettlr.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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Can’t you just open a folder inside your Dropbox folders? Then it should just sync, right? (That’s how I use zettlr, but with nextcloud instead of Dropbox.)
“Most people i know that write more then just some notes use obsidian, zettlr”
“I even user Zettlr for a while”
“and so does https://www.zettlr.com/”
“If you want a good editor for that have a look at”
“I switched to Zettlr last year and I like it much better.”
“If you really want a good markdown editor better have a look at https://www.zettlr.com/”
LaTeX support is a reasonable request! It's not on the immediate roadmap, but here's my thinking: Options considered: - KaTeX/MathJax-style rendering (would need a Rust math renderer or JS bridge) - Typst integration (Rust-native, modern alternative to LaTeX) - External tool pipeline (render via pandoc/LaTeX CLI) Typst is interesting since it's also Rust-based and simpler than full LaTeX. Would inline math ($x^2$) an
“I recently switched from Obsidian to Zettlr due to some rendering and performance issues on Linux, and it's been a great experience.”
“I do pay for others like zettlr”