Eyrie vs Typora
WYSIWYG vs vault-aware AI.
Typora is the cleanest WYSIWYG Markdown editor on Mac. Eyrie is a native vault editor with built-in AI. They overlap as Markdown editors, but they solve very different problems. If you write single Markdown documents, Typora might be all you need. If you maintain a knowledge base, Eyrie does work Typora can't.
TL;DR
The 30-second version
Switch to Eyrie if: you have a folder of accumulated Markdown notes and want AI-powered search, organization, and rewriting across them.
Stay on Typora if: you edit single Markdown documents at a time (technical docs, blog posts, READMEs), love the WYSIWYG rendering, and don't need vault-aware features.
The core difference.
Typora is a document editor. Open a file, edit it, save. Single-file focus. The killer feature is its live-preview WYSIWYG rendering — what you type renders inline as you go, no split pane.
Eyrie is a vault editor. Open a folder, browse it, search across files, link between them, and run AI over the whole pile. The killer features are semantic search, AI chat with citations, and MCP integrations to Claude Desktop / Cursor.
The honest version: if you don't need vault features, Typora's WYSIWYG is more pleasant for pure single-document work.
Side-by-side.
When Typora is the right answer.
We use Typora ourselves sometimes. It's genuinely good at:
- Editing a single Markdown document — a blog post, a README, a tech spec
- Markdown table editing (best WYSIWYG table editor we've used)
- One-off documents you don't need to find again next year
- Cross-platform work (Windows / Linux users)
If your Markdown work is "I have this one file open" rather than "I have 500 notes I need to make sense of," Typora is a better fit and a fraction of the price.
When Eyrie is the right answer.
Eyrie pays off as your collection grows. You'll want it when you find yourself:
- Asking "what did I write about X six months ago?" and getting no good answer from grep
- Spending time manually copying between notes to draft a new piece
- Wishing your notes app could organize itself by category
- Wanting Claude Desktop or Cursor to be able to read your notes
These are vault-scale problems. Typora doesn't solve them because it isn't trying to.
Migrating from Typora.
There's nothing to migrate. Typora stores files as plain .md on your disk — exactly what Eyrie reads. Open the folder containing your Typora files in Eyrie. Both apps can coexist on the same folder; Markdown files don't lock.
14 days free. Keep Typora installed if you want.
Both apps read the same files. Use whichever feels right for the task.
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