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MarkText


  
    
  


  :high_brightness: Next generation markdown editor :crescent_moon:
  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
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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

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Want to see new features of the latest version? Please refer to CHANGELOG.

 macOS

Requires macOS 13 (Ventura) 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.

bash
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 Cho

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Latest release

⚠️ Note for macOS users
Builds are unsigned (no Apple Developer ID). After dragging MarkText into Applications, clear the quarantine flag once:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MarkText.app


 Verifying downloads
All artifacts are listed with their SHA-256 in SHA256SUMS.txt. Verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt --ignore-missing



 What's Changed
 chore(release): v0.22.0 by @Jocs in https://github.com/marktext/marktext/pull/5779
 chore: begin v0.23.0 development by @Jocs in https://github.com/marktext/marktext/pull/5780
 fix(release): explicitly select the previous stable vers