MacDown vs Remarkable: What are the differences?

MacDown: Open source Markdown editor for OS X. MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou; Remarkable: Markdown editor, viewer and toolkit. Markdown parser done right. Fast and easy to extend. Supports the CommonMark spec + syntax extensions + sugar (URL autolinking, typographer).

MacDown and Remarkable can be primarily classified as "Markdown Editors" tools.

Some of the features offered by MacDown are:

• Markdown Rendering
• Additional Rendering Tools
• Syntax Highlighting

On the other hand, Remarkable provides the following key features:

• Supports the CommonMark spec + syntax extensions + sugar (URL autolinking, typographer)
• Configurable syntax! You can add new rules and even replace existing ones
• High speed

MacDown and Remarkable are both open source tools. MacDown with 8.21K GitHub stars and 995 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Remarkable with 4.66K GitHub stars and 335 GitHub forks.