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The first 3 are exactly what you're saying. The 4th and 5th have dual panes with live updates of fully rendered markdown on the side.

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I'm not familiar with the first two, but did try MarkText. I don't remember why, but I ended up paying for Marked. Thanks for the references; I'll check those others out.

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