MarkEdit

MarkEdit is a free and open-source Markdown editor, for macOS. It's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.

Screenshots

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What make MarkEdit different

Privacy focused: doesn't collect any user data
Native: clean and intuitive, feels right at home on Mac
Fast: edits 10 MB files easily
Lightweight: installer size is about 3 MB
Extensible: seamless Shortcuts integration

To learn more, refer to Philosophy and Why MarkEdit.

Why is MarkEdit Free

MarkEdit is completely free and open source, with no advertising or promotions for other services. We ship it because we love it, and we don't expect any revenue from it.

Please consider starring this project and leaving a nice review on the Mac App Store, your support is all we need.

Using MarkEdit

Please refer to the wiki page for details.

Building MarkEdit

Building CoreEditor

After checking out the project, go to the root folder of the repository and run:

cd CoreEditor
yarn install
yarn build

To test the editor in a dev environment, run yarn dev instead, web interfaces are exposed to window.webModules.

Building MarkEditMac

After successfully building CoreEditor, open MarkEdit.xcodeproj, and build the MarkEditMac target.

It's recommended to override build settings by adding a Local.xcconfig file under the root folder, including code signing identity, development team, etc.

Note that you should always use the latest version of Xcode.

Testing MarkEdit Locally

Unit tests are run automatically by GitHub actions, you can also run them on your machine.

Testing CoreEditor

Make sure dependencies are installed and run:

cd CoreEditor
yarn test

Testing MarkEditMac

MarkEditMac consists of several targets, here's an example of testing MarkEditCoreTests:

xcodebuild test -project MarkEdit.xcodeproj -scheme MarkEditCoreTests -destination 'platform=macOS'

Contributing to MarkEdit

For bug reports, please open an issue.

For code changes, bug fixes are generally welcomed, feel free to open pull requests. However, we hesitate to add new features (why), please fork the repository and make your own.

For localization, please also open an issue as mentioned above first.

Thanks in advance.

Acknowledgments

MarkEdit is built on top of the awesome CodeMirror 6 project.

MarkEdit has built-in proofing support based on Grammarly.

MarkEdit uses ts-gyb to generate lots of boilerplate code.

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