📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
npm install marktext
MarkText
A simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focused on speed and usability.
Available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Website | Features | Downloads | Development | Contribution
Sponsors
MarkText is an open-source Markdown editor powered by the support of its community. If MarkText improves your workflow, please consider sponsoring the project. Thank you to all the sponsors ❤️
Special Sponsor
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Features
- Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience.
- Support CommonMark Spec, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec and selective support Pandoc markdown.
- Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX), front matter and emojis.
- Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency.
- Output HTML and PDF files.
- Various themes: Cadmium Light, Material Dark etc.
- Various editing modes: Source Code mode, Typewriter mode, Focus mode.
- Paste images directly from clipboard.
Download and Installation
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Want to see new features of the latest version? Please refer to CHANGELOG.
macOS
Requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later. Universal builds aren't published — pick the matching arm64 or x64 installer.
You can either download the latest marktext-mac-(arm64|x64)-%version%.dmg from the release page or install MarkText using homebrew cask. To use Homebrew-Cask you just need to have Homebrew installed.
brew install --cask mark-text
Windows
Requires Windows 10 or 11. Both x64 and arm64 installers are published — pick the architecture that matches your machine.
Simply download and install MarkText via the setup wizard (marktext-win-(x64|arm64)-%version%-setup.exe) and choose whether to install per-user or machine wide. Alternatively, install MarkText using a package manager such as Chocolatey or Winget.
To use Chocolatey, you need to have Chocolatey installed:
choco install marktext
To use Winget, you need to have Winget installed:
winget install marktext
Linux
Please follow the Linux installation instructions.
Other
All binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows can be downloaded from the release page. If a version is unavailable for your system, then please open an issue.
Development
If you wish to build MarkText yourself, please check out our build instructions.
If you have any questions regarding MarkText, you are welcome to write an issue. When doing so please use the default format found when opening an issue. Of course, if you submit a PR directly, it will be greatly appreciated.
Contribution
MarkText is in development, please make sure to read the Contributing Guide before making a pull request. Want to add some features to MarkText? Refer to our roadmap and open issues.
Contributors
Thank you to all the people who have already contributed to MarkText[contributors].
License
MIT.