MarkText

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🔆 Next generation markdown editor 🌙
A simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focused on speed and usability.

📥 Downloads

⬇️ Download Latest Release

Platform	Download
macOS (Apple Silicon)	marktext-mac-arm64-1.0.0.dmg
macOS (Intel)	marktext-mac-x64-1.0.0.dmg

• MarkText is a free and open source markdown editor originally written by Jocs and contributors.

• Sadly, the core repository became unmaintained since about 3 years ago, but various Quality of Life issues remained. This repository serves as an attempt at modernising my favourite Markdown Editor, and is a fork based off Jacob Whall's Fork.

• The fork by Tkaixiang is highly recommended as a starting point for anyone looking to use MarkText on a modern Mac or to build the app locally for themselves. See Tkaixiang's motivation for his fork

• The 2026 fork by Peter Thomson is designed as a file first (no vaults or cloud services), live preview (in-situ WYSIWG preview), minimalist, modern markdown editor.

Windows

• Simply check out the Releases Page.

• Tested on:

  • Windows 11

Linux

• Simply check out the Releases Page
• Tested on:
  • Ubuntu 24.0.2 (AppImage and .deb packages)

Linux Package Managers

1. Arch Linux

• Available on AUR thanks to @kromsam

MacOS

• Available on the Releases Page
• Both Apple Silicon (arm64) and Intel (x64) builds available
• Release builds are signed and notarized for macOS Gatekeeper compatibility

2. Screenshots

3. ✨Features ⭐

• Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience. (Importantly, this is an in-line in-editor preview not a split pane preview.)

• 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.

3.1 🌙 Themes🔆

Cadmium Light	Dark
Graphite Light	Material Dark
Ulysses Light	One Dark

3.2 😸Edit Modes🐶

Source Code	Typewriter	Focus

4. Motivation

1. Soo is this fork any different from the countless others?

• A main gripe I had when looking into marktext was that the development framework + environment was aging badly and took forever to compile

  • Most libaries were outdated and some couldn't even be installed with modern versions of Node.JS/Python

• Hence, this fork is kind of a major "re-write" that makes use of electron-vite instead of the old Babel + Webpack setup

  • The goal here is to give marktext a fresh start using modern frameworks and libraries as much as possible
  • Everything has also been migrated to Vue3 and Pinia with all libraries updated to their latest possible versions

• The main and preload processes are still compiled to CommonJS, but the renderer is now fully ESModules only (which posed some interesting issues during migration)

2. That's cool! How can I help?

• Any form of:

  1. Testing for bugs (Bug-Reports)

  2. Pull Requests

  Are more than welcome!

• You can find a basic list of commands for getting around this repo below, but otherwise - the file structure should be very similar to the original marktext

3. Project Setup

• See Developer Documentation