Markpad

Markpad Light as Notepad, elegant as Markdown.

A lightweight, minimalist Markdown viewer and text editor built for productivity across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Features

Reading

• GitHub-styled rendering, with syntax highlighting in code blocks
• Maths (KaTeX) and diagrams (Mermaid)
• Table of contents that follows wherever you scroll
• Folding by heading, and a Zen mode with everything else out of the way
• Content zoom, custom typography, custom themes (VS Code themes import)

Editing

• Monaco (VS Code editor) with Vim support
• Split view, kept in sync line for line
• Heading completion for links, and a customisable formatting toolbar
• Paste an image straight into the document; drag files in to open them

Documents

• Tabs, multiple windows, window tags, and a session that comes back
• A Home page with recent files, and pinned tags that reopen a saved group of files
• Auto-reload when a file changes on disk
• Export to HTML, print to PDF
• Wikilinks, embeds and callouts alongside standard Markdown. See

[What Markpad renders](#what-markpad-renders) below

More

• Windows, macOS and Linux
• No telemetry, free and open source
• 26 interface languages

Package Managers

Direct download

Every file below is on the latest release (opens in a new tab) page, and on markpad.dev (opens in a new tab).

The two Windows files differ only in that one installs and one does not — -setup.exe puts Markpad in Program Files and the Start menu; the plain .exe runs from wherever you put it.

After a direct .dmg or Homebrew (macOS), *-setup.exe (Windows NSIS) or .AppImage (Linux) install, Markpad self-updates from GitHub releases via the in-app Check for Updates… entry (macOS app menu, or Settings elsewhere). Chocolatey and Snap keep Markpad current through those package managers instead.

`.deb` and `.rpm` are one-time installs. tauri-plugin-updater cannot replace a package-managed install, and there is no apt or dnf repository to update from — upgrading means downloading a newer package from the releases page. Check for Updates… recognises a package-managed install and tells you so.

What Markpad renders

Every syntax Markpad renders is in one document — [**download…