Typora's live WYSIWYG editing is brilliant but it has no publish button. Thooval gives you the same beautiful writing experience, plus one-click publishing to GitHub Pages. Write beautifully. Ship instantly.
macOS 12+ · $15 One-Time · GitHub Pages hosting is free
Typora pioneered live WYSIWYG Markdown editing and does it brilliantly. But once you've written a post, you're on your own: manually exporting HTML, fighting Jekyll or Hugo, managing a CI pipeline just to hit publish.
Thooval keeps what you love about Typora the live rendering, the clean interface, the local .md files and adds the one thing Typora never had: a Publish button that actually works.
Ranked for developers and indie hackers who need more than a great editor they need to actually publish their blog.
Live WYSIWYG editing (just like Typora) plus a one-click Publish button that pushes clean static HTML to GitHub Pages. No terminal. No CI. Drafts stored as local .md files you own everything.
The gold standard for live WYSIWYG Markdown. Beautiful and fast. Critical limitation for bloggers: no publishing. After writing, you still need Jekyll, Hugo, or a manual deploy pipeline to go live.
Exceptional focus mode and typography. The writing experience is polished. No native blog publishing export and handle the rest yourself. Uses split-pane preview, not live WYSIWYG.
A personal knowledge base that some repurpose for blogging via community plugins. Works, but fights against the tool's architecture. Obsidian Publish adds $120/year just to show your notes online.
An open-source clone of Typora's WYSIWYG experience. Works as a pure editor. No publishing. The project has periods of low activity and known macOS issues. No roadmap for publishing features.
Beautiful Apple-native note-taking with good Markdown rendering. Designed for personal use not blog publishing. No way to push content to a website. Subscription required for sync.
| Feature | Typora | Thooval |
|---|---|---|
| Live WYSIWYG editing | ✓ Best-in-class | ✓ Yes |
| One-click blog publishing | ✗ None | ✓ GitHub Pages |
| Local .md file storage | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| No terminal required | ~ Writing only | ✓ End-to-end |
| Offline writing | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Google Analytics built-in | ✗ No | ✓ GA4 |
| Comments system | ✗ No | ✓ Giscus |
| No account required | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Price | $14.99 one-time | $15 one-time |
| macOS support | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Windows / Linux | ✓ Yes | ✗ macOS only |
Bold is bold as you type. Headings look like headings. No raw **markdown** syntax cluttering your view. Built on the same principle Typora pioneered.
Hit Publish. Thooval builds clean static HTML and pushes it to your GitHub Pages repo. Your post is live in seconds no terminal, no CI pipeline, no config files.
Every post is a plain .md file in a folder you choose. Open them in Typora, VS Code, or any editor they're yours unconditionally.
Paste your Google Analytics 4 ID once. Thooval injects it into every page automatically no plugins, no theme editing.
Enable Giscus comments in one step. Readers authenticate with GitHub no spam bots, no Disqus tracking your audience.
GitHub Pages is free for public repositories. Your blog costs $15 once. Hosting is $0 per year forever. Typora's experience + zero hosting bill = Thooval.
Download Thooval, connect your GitHub repo once, and publish your first blog post all in under 10 minutes. One payment. No subscription. GitHub Pages hosting is always free.
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