Last Updated on July 11, 2021
Mark Text is a simple and elegant Markdown editor.
This editor focuses on speed and usability. Mark Text shows you formatted text in realtime while you can simply write and edit text but also use markdown syntax. To improve your writing efficiency there are a lot of key bindings for better text manipulation.
Markdown is a simple markup language that enables you to write text just as complex as using standard office software, but with much less clutter. Remove unnecessary markup and styling from your writing process.
Mark Text is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience.
- Sidebar:
- Filesystem explorer (tree view) of the opened root directory.
- Find in files.
- Table of contents of the selected tab.
- Supports CommonMark Spec, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec and selective support Pandoc markdown.
- Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX), front matter and emojis.
- Supports paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency.
- Integrated filesystem explorer.
- Task lists.
- Automatically check your text for misspelled words as you type and suggest corrections.
- Output HTML and PDF files.
- Various themes: Cadmium Light, Dark, Graphite Lite, Material Dark, One Dark, and Ulysses Light.
- Various editing modes: Source Code mode, Typewriter mode, Focus mode.
- Paste images directly from the clipboard.
- Automatically detect the language while typing. Mark Text supports over 160 languages by Compact Language Detector.
- Portable mode.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: marktext.app
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Mark Text Contributors
License: MIT License
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