Get MarkText on macOS and Linux Now!
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
Get MarkText with one command
Pick your system, reveal the step-by-step guide, copy the command, paste it into your terminal and press Enter. This command comes from the project's public source.
Not available for Windows yet.
MarkText doesn't publish an install command for Windows anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one. It does document one for macOS and Linux — switch to that tab.
Pastes into PowerShell and installs MarkText on your Windows machine in one step. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
Not available for macOS yet.
MarkText doesn't publish an install command for macOS or Linux anywhere we can verify, so there's nothing for us to show you. We won't invent one.
Installs MarkText on your macOS or Linux machine and links it into your PATH — after this,
MarkText just works from any directory. Runs as your normal user account, and needs no administrator rights.
How to set up MarkText, step by step
Open Terminal. On a Mac it's in Applications ▸ Utilities, or press Cmd+Space and type Terminal. On Linux, press Ctrl+Alt+T. Paste the command and press Enter.
Run MarkText --help to see the available commands, and
MarkText --version to confirm the install worked. If your shell complains about
permissions, that project usually documents a corrected command on its own site.
This asks Homebrew to fetch MarkText and link it into /opt/homebrew/bin (Apple Silicon) or /usr/local/bin (Intel), so you can run it by name.
What MarkText does
- Support CommonMark Spec, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec and selective support Pandoc markdown
- Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency
- Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience
- Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX), front matter and emojis
- Paste images directly from clipboard
Summarised from MarkText's own documentation.
About MarkText
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
| Category | Developer tool |
|---|---|
| Install method | Homebrew |
| Windows | no install command published |
| macOS / Linux | documented install command available |
| Price | Free and open source |
| Command verified | From project source |
| Popularity | 62k stars on the project's public repository |
On mobile
MarkText is a command-line tool, so there is no phone app for it — a phone has no shell to run it in. You'll need a desktop, or a remote shell into a machine that has one.
MarkText is developed by its own authors. This page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by the project. The command shown here was reproduced from the project's public documentation — always check the project's own documentation before running anything.