Markpad

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Details for Markpad

Package name

markpad

License

BSD-3-Clause

Last updated

7 October 2026 - latest/stable

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The Notepad equivalent for Markdown

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

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 (the editor from VS Code) with Vim mode
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
Auto-reload when a file changes on disk
Export to HTML, print to PDF
Wikilinks, embeds and callouts alongside standard Markdown. See supported markdown syntax: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sftwrdotdev/Markpad/master/samples/markdown-syntax.md

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

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