[ACCEPTED]-Markdown Preview Application for Windows-markdown

Accepted answer

Score: 101

I created a full-featured Markdown editor 5 for Windows called MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com), and it supports 4 full live HTML preview:

MarkdownPad, the Markdown Editor for Windows

MarkdownPad is lightweight 3 (only 1.5 MB, not including the .NET 4 Framework), and 2 offers several great features:

Everything is customizable. Fonts, colors, sizes, and even the CSS stylesheet of the rendered HTML. The default CSS is beautiful and minimal, and will make your HTML documents look great.
Easy HTML export. You can export the full document as HTML, or just selected text.
Distraction-free Mode. This full-screen mode turns your whole monitor into a blank canvas for you to get some serious work done.
Frequent updates. I'm always improving MarkdownPad, and love hearing feedback from users.
Built natively for Windows. MarkdownPad was built from the ground up exclusively for Windows. It uses the latest Microsoft .NET 4 and Windows Presentation 4 Frameworks (translation: it's all kinds of shiny on the inside).

And I even 1 wrote this post in MarkdownPad :)

Score: 30

I use MarkPad. It's free. It's open source. It 2 looks great. And, it's written in WPF (which 1 I love).

Markdown For Windows

Score: 20

If you use Visual Studio, the Markdown Mode extension is pretty 2 handy for both Markdown syntax highlighting 1 as well as displaying a live preview.

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Score: 18

ResophNotes supports Markdown with preview.

ResophNotes Screen shot

ReText is a Python 7 app that supports Markdown Preview, but 6 Windows doesn't appear to be the main target 5 platform. I got it to work in Windows, but 4 I had to download the icons separately and 3 copy then into one of the app directories 2 in order to get it to work properly.

ReText Screen shot