MarkText

🔆 Next generation markdown editor 🌙
A simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focused on speed and usability.
_{Available for Linux, macOS and Windows.}

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_{This Markdown editor that could. Built with ❤︎ by Jocs and contributors .}

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 ❤️

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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

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.

• User documentation
• Developer documentation

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].

About this fork

This fork (Wong0728/marktext) extends upstream MarkText with the following changes on top of develop:

• DOCX export overhaul: two engines — a Pandoc-based path (native OMML equations via MathML, custom reference document with page setup and table borders) and a bundled pure-JS engine (@turbodocx/html-to-docx + mathml2omml post-processing); both center image-only paragraphs and honor user font settings.
• Math clipboard pipeline: copy rich text containing formulas as standalone MathML (KaTeX output: 'mathml', LaTeX source kept in <annotation>) so Word/Docs can paste native equations.
• Native multi-window tabs: drag tabs out to a new window, drop them onto another window's title bar to merge, and "open in new window" context menu — HTML5 DnD replacing dragula.
• Editor enhancements: Vim keybindings in Source Code mode, Source/WYSIWYG formatting keybinding parity, file-tree name filter.
• Export improvements: frontmatter-driven export presets, PDF rasterization in a dedicated offscreen window (decoupled from the editor DOM).
• Accessibility: high-contrast dark theme across UI, Prism, CodeMirror and menus.
• Reliability: atomic writes retry on Windows lock errors (EPERM/EBUSY from antivirus/indexers or files open in Word).
• CI: linux-arm64 and macos-universal build matrix entries.

See TODO.md for the full change log. Upstream-first contributions extracted from this fork are submitted as separate pull requests.

License

MIT.