Write in Markdown. Stay in flow.
Realtime preview, beautiful typography, and zero distractions.
Shipping Notes
A living document, written entirely in Markdown.
MarkText renders your formatting as you type — headings grow, emphasis leans, and code snaps into place without ever leaving the page.
What changed
- Seamless real-time rendering with no preview pane
- 33 built-in themes plus full custom CSS
- Tables, math, footnotes & diagrams out of the box
“The best Markdown editors disappear. MarkText disappears beautifully.”
# export.sh marktext notes.md --export pdf
See it as you mean it.
A true WYSIWYG editor — your Markdown transforms in place the moment you type. No split view, no toggling.
Render in place
Type ## Heading and watch the markup melt away.
Source code mode
Drop into raw Markdown anytime you need full control.
Paste & go
Paste rich text and MarkText converts it to clean Markdown.
As you type
**Bold** snaps bold, _italics_ lean, and links become clickable the instant you finish them.
Lists build themselves:
- One keystroke per bullet
- Nesting just works
- Checkboxes too
Stay in flow — never touch a render button again.
More than CommonMark.
Tables, math, diagrams, footnotes and front matter — all first-class, all rendered live.
Tables
Build them visually, or pipe them in with Markdown.
Math & LaTeX
KaTeX inline and block math, rendered instantly.
Diagrams
Flowcharts and charts via Mermaid, Vega & Vega-Lite.
Footnotes
Two-way reference footnotes that renumber themselves.
[1]: The year MarkText turned ten.
Code blocks
Syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages.
const fib = n =>
n < 2 ? n : fib(n-1)+fib(n-2);
Front matter
YAML, TOML and JSON metadata for blogs and static sites.
title: Hello World
tags: [markdown, notes]
---
Make it yours.
33 built-in themes, light and dark. Every one is just CSS — fork a favorite or write your own.
Light & dark, instantly
Switch with a keystroke, or follow your system.
Author with plain CSS
No proprietary format. Know CSS? You can theme it.
**bold** _italic_
> quote
**bold** _italic_
> quote
**bold** _italic_
> quote
**bold** _italic_
> quote
**bold** _italic_
> quote
**bold** _italic_
> quote
Focus & typewriter mode
Dim everything but the line you're writing, and keep it locked to center. Distraction-free by design.
This line stays sharp and centered.
And the next one waits its turn.
Export anywhere
Turn any document into a polished PDF or self-contained HTML file — your theme included.
Keep MarkText free.
Built by volunteers. If it earns a place in your workflow, sponsorship keeps development going.
Start writing in two minutes.
One download. No account, no subscription. Every desktop you write on.
brew install --cask mark-text