Feels at home on your Mac
Built with AppKit and SwiftUI, not a web wrapper. Light and Dark Mode, window tabs, Versions, and the toolbar buttons you choose.
Markdown editor for Mac
Your notes should remain your files.
A fast, native Markdown editor with a live preview. Open the folders you already have and start writing.
View in Mac App Store
Free · No account · macOS 15.6 or later
Keep ownership simple
Plain text is a great place to think.
MarkdownMate opens and saves standard .md files right
where you keep them. Organize them in Finder, version them with Git,
or sync them with iCloud Drive or Dropbox — without importing or
exporting a database.
Made for the way you write
Everything essential.
Nothing in the way.
Write, preview, or both
Editor, Preview and Side by Side are a keystroke away. Syntax highlighting keeps Markdown readable as you type.
A preview that does more
Code highlighting, math, Mermaid diagrams, tables, footnotes and front matter. Export to HTML or PDF. All offline.
Find your next thought
Open any file with ⌘P, search every note with Find in Folder, and find within the preview.
Writing that flows
Smart lists and to-dos, a formatting bar, and images you paste or drop, saved right next to your note.
Fast with big files and folders
Smooth in multi-megabyte documents and folders with thousands of notes. No plugins to manage.
A clear view of your work
Stay in the flow, from first draft to final edit.
Formatting, files and document structure stay close at hand — so you spend less time managing tools and more time writing.
- Live document outline
- Picks up where you left off
- Word count and reading time
- A text width that suits you
What's new in 2.3
Quicker to find, kinder to the eyes.
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Find in the preview
Press ⌘F in the preview: every match is highlighted, and ⌘G moves between them.
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Your toolbar, your way
A Light/Dark button, Settings at hand, and you choose which buttons show.
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Comfortable text width
Keep long lines centered in a wide window, in the editor as in the preview.
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Faster with big folders
Saving, Open Quickly and Find in Folder no longer rescan the whole folder.
A better home for Markdown
Open a folder. Start writing.
Free on the Mac App Store. No account, no subscription.
View in Mac App Store Requires macOS 15.6 or later