Your words. Your files. Your privacy. Now on iPhone and iPad.
willisMD Pro is a local-first Markdown editor and knowledge base for writers, bloggers, journalists, and knowledge builders. Zero telemetry. No accounts. No tracking. Your files are just files: keep them on the device, in iCloud Drive, or in a git repository. We run no service that handles your notes. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
MADE FOR TOUCH
A clean reading view with your preview themes, a Write view with a formatting toolbar above the keyboard (headings, bold, links, wiki links, lists, tasks, indent, undo), and a sidebar you can pin as a column on iPad or keep tucked away on iPhone. Long-press a [[wiki link]] to peek at the note before you open it.
NEW HERE? START WITH A SAMPLE VAULT
The first time you open the app, a short welcome offers a sample vault of linked notes to explore, or lets you open your own folder.
YOUR FOLDERS, YOUR FILES
Open any Files-app folder as a vault, iCloud Drive included, with offline notes fetched when you read them. Autosave is on, and your open notes are saved when you leave the app.
SYNC ON YOUR TERMS
Clone a git repository straight onto your device, then commit, pull, push, and sync from the Source Control view. Your access token is kept in the keychain. Or let iCloud Drive or another Files provider carry your folder. When a sync service leaves a conflict copy of a note, willisMD Pro flags it.
SEARCH THAT FINDS IT
Results are ranked by relevance. Search for "exact phrases", tag:, path:, /regular expressions/, and -exclusions. Save the searches you run often.
BUILD A KNOWLEDGE BASE
Wiki-style [[links]] with autocomplete, including links to headings and to a note's aliases. Embed a note, a section, a single paragraph, or an image with ![[ ]], and link to any paragraph with a block reference. Backlinks, nested tags, an interactive graph, and a Properties panel for frontmatter show how it all connects.
CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE
Send text to a note from any app with the share sheet. Use Siri and Shortcuts to create notes, append to your daily journal, search, and open a note by name.
A WRITING ASSISTANT, ONLY IF YOU WANT ONE
The in-app assistant is off until you turn it on in Settings. Chat with Claude about your notes using your own Anthropic API key. You see exactly what will be sent before your first message, and it goes only to Anthropic, under your key, when you tap Send. Your key stays in your keychain. willisMD Pro itself never sends your notes to us.
SEE IT AS YOU WRITE
WYSIWYG live preview renders headings, lists, tables, code, math, images, callouts, and embedded notes inside the editor, or keep the source editor with a live preview beside it. Callouts, Mermaid diagrams, and syntax-highlighted code carry through to exports.
YOUR DOCUMENT, YOUR STYLE
Ten built-in preview and export styles, or design your own with the Style Editor. Export to Word (.docx), styled HTML, or ePub from the command palette.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No analytics. No crash reporters. No update checks. No third-party SDKs. Available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German.
Buy once. Own it on iPhone, iPad, and Mac forever. No subscription.
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