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Mark Text

Real-time preview Markdown editor for the desktop

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Mark Text is an open-source Markdown editor that offers a clean, distraction-free real-time preview writing experience. It supports CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown and exports to several document formats.

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Key features

  • Real-time preview
  • GitHub Flavored Markdown
  • Cross-platform desktop
  • Export to PDF and HTML

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Clean distraction-free UI
  • Real-time preview
  • Free and cross-platform

Trade-offs

  • Infrequent releases lately
  • Electron memory footprint

Is Mark Text secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Mark Text's latest release (v0.21.2). OSV.dev lists 8 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-6492, published 2025-06-22 (479 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Mark Text replaces

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