# mrkdwn — Markdown Notes Editor — Private writing brain, offline > Private writing brain, offline (iPhone/iPad app by BuenaGames LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mrkdwn-markdown-notes-editor/id6797805440 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [BuenaGames LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6797769587) - Category: Productivity, Business - Price: Free (on sale, was $14.99) - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 32 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic, Bangla, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian and 34 more - Released: 2026-10-06 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is mrkdwn? mrkdwn is more than a markdown editor. It is a private place to think, and it keeps every note as an ordinary .md file in a folder you choose. Other note apps ask you to trust a database. This one writes plain text to disk, where Finder, git, grep and any editor you ever switch to can already read it. No account. No subscription. No analytics — mrkdwn collects nothing and sends nothing. NOTES THAT STAY YOURS • Every note is a plain .md file in a folder you picked, not a row in our database • Edit one in another app and mrkdwn picks up the change • The same files open in any other editor, today or in ten years • Lock a note and it is encrypted on disk until you unlock it • iCloud sync merges three ways and marks conflicts, instead of overwriting the older copy • Version history keeps 30 days or 100 versions per note, with word-level diffs and a restore that leaves the current draft intact • Deleted notes go to a trash you can recover from NOTES THAT FIND EACH OTHER • Wiki-style [[links]] resolve as you type • A backlinks panel shows every note pointing at this one • The knowledge graph draws the whole library, filtered by tag or search • Tag a note, then open the tag to read everything filed under it • Quick Open fuzzy-finds any note in a keystroke • Link autocomplete the moment you type [[ • Daily notes arrive dated, every day you write MARKDOWN THAT RENDERS PROPERLY • CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown, with footnotes and callouts • LaTeX math, inline and block, rendered offline • Syntax highlighting for more than 180 languages • Six built-in themes, and you can make your own • Mermaid, Graphviz and Markmap diagrams from ordinary code blocks A SURFACE BUILT FOR DRAFTING • Focus mode fades every paragraph except the one you are writing • Read as editor only, preview only, or both side by side • Typewriter scrolling holds your line in the middle of the screen • Live counts for words, characters, sentences and reading time • Put the command bar in the order you actually work in • Give a folder an icon, a color, and a place at the top of the list • Writing goals track a daily word target and your streak • Authorship marks which passages you typed and which you pasted • Apple's Writing Tools work in the editor, where your device offers them NOTES THAT COME TO YOU • Ask Siri for today's note; find, append and read notes from Shortcuts • Paste a URL and the article comes back as markdown • Clip a page straight from Safari (Mac) • Import from 19 formats, including PDF, PowerPoint, Excel and text read out of images SEE THE SHAPE OF A SENTENCE • Color nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions as you type • Style checks flag filler, hedging, repetition and passive voice • Nothing is corrected for you — a flag is information, not an instruction • Every highlight stays off until you switch it on LEAVE WHENEVER YOU LIKE • Export to PDF, EPUB, HTML, RTF, plain text and markdown • Word and OpenDocument export, and Word import (Mac) • Everything works offline, apart from fetching a web page you paste • Or copy the folder and go — the notes were never ours Native on Mac, iPad and iPhone, from one Swift core rather than a web page in a window. A knowledge base you own, for students, teachers, authors, and anyone who would rather keep their thinking in plain files than rent a notes app. Questions? www.buenalabs.io/support ## Is mrkdwn safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess mrkdwn. ## Is mrkdwn legit? mrkdwn — Markdown Notes Editor has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for mrkdwn is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.5.2 — 2026-10-06 See how your notes connect. • A knowledge graph of your whole library, and the local graph of whichever note you are reading • Search it, filter it, and color groups of notes by what they match • Smooth to ten thousand notes, and honest about slowing down past that • Save a graph as SVG or PNG Set the editor in any face you own: • Choose any font installed on your iPhone or iPad, beside the three that come with mrkdwn • Pick it in Settings, or from the aA menu without leaving what you are writing • The measure follows the face, so a line labelled 72 characters still holds 72 More of mrkdwn is in your language: • Eleven languages had their remaining gaps filled, including Japanese, Korean, both Chinese scripts and Italian • Portuguese is now Brazilian and European separately, the way Apple's own apps have them • Terms were checked against the note apps you already use, so Sync and Serif are the words those apps chose rather than ones we invented Also fixed: • The monospaced face ran three dots together and into the character before them • Wiki links showed their brackets in the preview instead of rendering as links • Onboarding told an iPad from an iPhone, and a tip could arrive on top of it • Settings names the folder your notes are in, in words you can go and find it by ### 1.5.1 — 2026-09-28 Your notes can now say who wrote them. • Mark any selection as Human, AI or Reference, and see it coloured by author • Thirteen AI agents each have their own identity, built from the vendor's own brand colour and balanced so no one of them shouts louder than the rest • Quoted sources get a quieter voice of their own • Your marks travel between your devices, and Statistics reports the split by author Writing and reading: • Maths renders by default, and inline maths sits in the line instead of a block apart • Writer, Split and Reader are the view modes; Zen is a modifier you drop into with a keystroke • The editor width is a measure in characters, not a fraction of your window, so the line length stays readable when you maximise • mrkdwn ships its own typeface, Buena Mono • Line numbers, abbreviations, and text graphs that render natively • Reopening a note puts you back at the caret, not at the top of the file On iPhone and iPad: • A floating command bar, in the order you put it in • Search and compose on the bottom row, where your thumb is • Tags are places — open one to read its notes, with its own actions • Drag notes and folders to move them • Brackets and quotes complete as you type • Files can hand a .md straight to mrkdwn • Dictate into search On the Mac: • The editor bar is less crowded, and the view-mode switcher moved to the window toolbar, where it stays visible in Reader and when the toolbar is hidden • mrkdwn can be your default Markdown app, and asks exactly once • A title menu, a hideable formatting toolbar, and a keyboard shortcut for the minimap Also in this update: • The first run is four steps, and skips the ones it has nothing to ask you • Settings says where your preferences actually live, and the licence text of every component we bundle now ships inside the app • Your library can be a folder you already have — point mrkdwn at it and edit those files where they are • Themes carry their accent through the whole app, each with a caret of its own Fixed: • PDF export threw away every page but the first • A paste could crash the app, and a new note opened with the template in it instead of empty • Notes were moved to Trash when iCloud had only evicted the file — the note was never gone • Anything another tool writes into your .md frontmatter now survives a round trip • Locked notes open again, and the Trash row can be reached • The knowledge graph drew no connections • Editor settings took a relaunch to apply • Starting your first note no longer hides the sidebar for good mrkdwn still collects nothing and sends nothing. No third-party analytics ship in the app at all. The figures in Settings are measured by your own device and stay there. ### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-21 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-24.*