Like many recent Mac text editors, Clean Writer Pro provides a full-screen view, as well as a Paragraphs Fade Mode, which displays the paragraph you are working on in regular text, with the rest of your document faded. There are also live character and word counts, in discreet gray characters, at the bottom of the window. You can use smart quotes and em dashes, for example, and the program offers such adjustments as line height and first-line-of-paragraph indent-features normally found in word processors.
It also offers a live preview window for viewing Markdown-formatted text as it would appear rendered as HTML-you can even copy the Markdown-formatted output as HTML for pasting into a web page.Ī number of options go beyond the standard text editor. While it can save RTF files, you must apply any styling-such as bold or italics-using Markdown tags. The program is a hybrid between a basic RTF editor such as TextEdit and a text-only Markdown editor.
Like many other editors of this type, it’s simple and offers limited formatting options, letting writers worry about writing rather than formatting. Clean Writer Pro ( Mac App Store link) is a $6 text editor that offers support for plain text, Markdown, and rich text (RTF).
