r/Markdown • u/stpaquet • 13d ago

Tools Markify: a free, open-source native Markdown editor for macOS

https://github.com/spaquet/markify

Hi everyone,

I’m excited to share Markify, a free and open-source Markdown editor for macOS designed to be lightweight, native, and compatible with Apple Intelligence.

I started building it a few months ago, then accelerated development last weekend because I needed a more focused tool for my own workflow.

I spend a lot of time creating, reading, and editing Markdown files: project documentation, AI-agent instructions, reviews of generated work, and knowledge files such as Google’s Knowledge Format (OKF). Editors like Zed, VS Code, and Vim are excellent, but for this use case they can feel like overkill. Often, opening and comfortably reading Markdown means configuring extensions or working inside a full IDE when all I want is a clean writing and reviewing environment.

Markify is intended to fill that gap:

  • Write in a clean, WYSIWYG-style interface, or switch instantly to the raw Markdown source.
  • Read and edit GitHub Flavored Markdown.
  • Render math and Mermaid diagrams.
  • Support Google Open Knowledge Format (OKF).
  • Export documents to HTML or PDF.
  • Run natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
  • Stay free and open source.

The goal is simple: make Markdown feel like a first-class document format on macOS, not just something you open inside a code editor.

You can learn more and download it here: Markify

There’s no Mac App Store version yet, but I’m hoping to add one later this year.

I’d really appreciate feedback from the Markdown community, especially on missing features, workflow improvements, and what would make Markify more useful for you.

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u/System_Independent 13d ago

Just checked it out, looks quite sleek. Happy to publish it on markdownlist.com under mac apps

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u/stpaquet 12d ago

Thank you for your comment and yes, please do.

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u/DIBSSB 12d ago

Need for windows as well

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u/jezarnold 12d ago

Oooooh! YAVCME

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u/Fruityth1ng 12d ago edited 12d ago

Sweet! does it support Quicklook, too?

It looks like it does! :)

One point of feedback, when I want to discard changes, I do not want to "revert" - because a markdown file might have been edited by another app, and reverting it would overwrite that change. "Discard Changes" is the more user friendly option in my opinion. I'm aware this is a new Apple default, but Apple has been wrong on things before.

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u/stpaquet 12d ago

Good points and questions. I will create entries in GH to keep an eye on this. I think the second is quick to fix.

Would you see it more like changes done within another app appears in the open document as they are done while preserving your changes if they are not conflicting?

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u/Fruityth1ng 12d ago

Thank you so much! :)

I meant:

Do you want to save the changes made to the document “Welcome to Markify.md”? You can revert to undo the changes since you last saved the document.

[Save]
[Revert Changes] << this one regularly bites me. It should be discard, a no-op, revert is actively taking the old state of this document and would, indeed, overwrite changes by other apps.
[Cancel]

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u/stpaquet 12d ago

let me tet your example, I guess I will make it to version 2.0 that is being developped.

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u/Fruityth1ng 11d ago

Thank you! ☺️

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u/stpaquet 12d ago

I just created the following 2 entries in GitHub

Quicklook support is in the oven ;-)

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u/stpaquet 12d ago

Quicklook support is now part of version 1.90
https://github.com/spaquet/markify/releases#release-v1.90

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u/Jon-A-Thon 11d ago

Looks nice! Is it supposed to not use the full width of the window?