# Lettera as a standalone editor **URL:** \ **Category:** Lettera feedback\ **Created:** [September 4, 2026, 8:51am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/lettera-as-a-standalone-editor/19811 "2026-09-04T08:51:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![bearly-awake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@bearly-awake](https://community.bear.app/u/bearly-awake)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 4:11am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/lettera-as-a-standalone-editor/19811/2 "2026-09-07T04:11:11Z")
Yes, it’s been mentioned a number of times. It hasn’t changed. I think the developers are more focused on other things, which is their right. If you are interested in a standalone WYSIWYG markdown editor, check out reddit’s markdown and macapps sections. > [@Lettera: New file behaviour is very incorrect and broken](https://community.bear.app/t/lettera-new-file-behaviour-is-very-incorrect-and-broken/19401): > > So if Lettera’s mission statement is to be a standalone Markdown file editor, its New File behaviour should be considered very broken. In the macOS document model (whether you use autosave or manual save), New File should always create a new Untitled file with an undetermined location until that file is closed / saved. Every well behaved Mac app that considers itself a document editor uses this model: TextEdit, Pixelmator, Pages, even Panda. But Lettera does NOT do this. It instead creates a n… > [@Lettera Feedback: New-File Behaviour, Quick Look, Dark Icon](https://community.bear.app/t/lettera-feedback-new-file-behaviour-quick-look-dark-icon/19758): > > Hi! I have been using Lettera quite intensively during the last month, and really love it! So much, in fact, that I have migrated all my notes out of Bear to a fully on-disk files approach. And it is great in the age of AI agents, since they work seamlessly with this approach. My main concerns: New-File Behaviour: When no docs are open and you open Lettera, it always insists on re-opening the Lettera iCloud container. This is quite an annoying behavior and very much against the main reason fo… > [@Lettera browser keeps popping up](https://community.bear.app/t/lettera-browser-keeps-popping-up/19752): > > This template is for bug report only: Lettera Version: 4266 macOS Version: 26.1 What were you doing: Clicked on the Lettera icon in the taskbar What feature did you use: What happened: The lettera browser window popped up showing “Lettera (iCloud)” What did you expect to happen: Nothing to pop up, because I didn’t have any document open My use case is that I am editing small AI markdown files from Finder. I never ever want to see the Letter browser. I use Finder for that type of thing. So … > [@Don't show Lettera folder when I launch the app by opening a file](https://community.bear.app/t/dont-show-lettera-folder-when-i-launch-the-app-by-opening-a-file/19400/3): > > Agreed, and a super frustrating bug. Every time I open a .md document, a window with the Lettera iCloud folder opens up on top of the document I’m actually trying to look at. > [@Lettera opens two windows - build 4091](https://community.bear.app/t/lettera-opens-two-windows-build-4091/19511): > > This template is for bug report only: Lettera Version: 4091 macOS Version:26.5.1 What were you doing: Lettera not running. Then in Finder, selected a file, right clicked, open with Lettera.app What feature did you use: I wanted to edit a markdown file What happened: Lettera opened two windows: 1. the file I wanted to edit, 2. a window with a file browser showing iCloud and. What did you expect to happen: I just wanted the first window. I didn’t want the second window with the file browser. T… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.bear.app/t/lettera-as-a-standalone-editor/19811)._