The file is the only truth
What you get is a plain .md on disk, not a row in a database. Put it in git, drop it in iCloud, open it in VS Code — all of it just works. You can leave for another tool any day, and your writing stays where it is.
macOS 14+ · On the Mac App Store
Easy to write, a pleasure to read
Markit is a native macOS Markdown editor. Syntax is for parsers, the page is for you: it renders as you type instead of sitting in your way — and what lands on disk is an ordinary .md file. Commit it, sync it, open it in VS Code, or stop using Markit altogether. Your writing never needs migrating.
Version 1.0 is on the Mac App Store — macOS 14 or later, one universal build for Apple silicon and Intel. Rather not install anything? The editor further down this page is the real one: you can type in it right now.
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Three decisions shape everything else
Real WYSIWYG
Asterisks and hashes turn into bold and headings the moment you type them, and the line under the cursor doesn't fall back to raw syntax. Chinese input stays uninterrupted — that was verified before a single line of feature code was written.
Chinese typesetting, taken seriously
A 720px measure, automatic spacing between Latin and Chinese, emphasis dots instead of slanted glyphs, punctuation that never hangs wrong. Every one of those was decided against a written standard, not eyeballed.
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What already works
This is not a roadmap. Everything below runs today.
- Saving won't wreck your diff
Line endings, BOM and frontmatter are preserved byte for byte. Writes are atomic, so a killed process never leaves half a file. Conflicts are detected by content hash rather than mtime, which sync services rewrite for no reason. Fix a typo and the diff is one line.
- Three views, one file
Visual editing, raw source and reading, from the segmented control at the top right or with ⌘E and ⌘/. Source view is a real editor — the whole file, frontmatter included. Leaving reading view returns you to whichever editing view you came from, not always the visual one.
- Tabs and four-way splits
Drag a file from the sidebar, a link inside a document, or a whole tab — whichever edge of the editor you drop it on is where it splits. Quit and reopen: the layout is still there.
- Edit on the left, read on the right
Open one file in two panes and the reading pane keeps up as you type — unsaved text included, without touching the disk or your dirty state. Drafts go only to panes in reading view; if nobody is looking, not a byte crosses.
- Several folders, without blurring meaning
The sidebar can hold several folders at once. But [[links]], relative image paths and rename scans resolve only inside the folder the document itself lives in — opening one more folder never changes what an existing document means.
- Findable
One index per folder, with full-text search that actually works for Chinese. Quick open, full-text search, the command palette and backlinks all share a single panel; ⇥ moves between them.
- Wikilinks and tags
[[Name]] and #nested/tags, written the way Obsidian writes them. Renaming a file tells you how many files it will touch before it touches them, then updates every reference.
- Drop anything in
Images, PDFs and media open as preview panes; code and CSV open as read-only syntax-highlighted views; an http link opens as a browsing pane. Each takes its own pane beside your document.
- Diagrams and formulas
Mermaid diagrams and Markmap mind maps draw themselves in place, and show their source again when the cursor enters. One that fails to draw falls back to an ordinary code block rather than a blank hole. $…$ and $$…$$ go through KaTeX, in editing and reading alike.
- Three themes, fonts included
Warm paper, cool white and dark, optionally following the system. Body text uses LXGW WenKai, bundled offline — the app has no networked runtime dependency at all.
- Eight interface languages
English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese — the same eight this site speaks. Following the system is the default, and for Chinese it goes by script rather than region, so a Hong Kong system gets Traditional.
- Export
Export a self-contained HTML file (images inlined as data URIs, so a single file is enough to send someone) or a PDF.
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What we deliberately don't do
This section says more about the product than the feature list does.
No invented syntax
Your files have to open correctly in VS Code, so nothing outside GFM gets added — not even ==highlight==.
No prose in a database
Bear can invent syntax because Bear owns the storage. We chose files, so we give up that freedom. A deliberate trade, not an unfinished one.
No real-time collaboration
Writing alone isn't good enough yet. A second front can wait.
No plugin marketplace, no accounts, no sync service
iCloud and Dropbox already sync your folder. We don't need to do it a second time.
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Read the specimen in the editorNotes deserve typesetting too
We laid out the Markdown syntax you actually use every day — headings, lists, tables, callouts, code — as one essay you can read straight through, and it is the first document the online editor opens. This site and the app share one set of design tokens and one set of typographic rules; even the tint behind a callout comes from the same formula.
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Questions people ask
- Where do I get it?
On the Mac App Store: version 1.0, macOS 14 or later, universal for Apple silicon and Intel. If you'd rather not install anything, the online editor works in Chrome or Edge — mount a folder from your disk and edits are written back to those .md files a second after you stop typing (⌘S writes immediately).
- Will it cost money?
The Mac App Store page always shows the current price — the one place that can't go stale. What won't change: it will never hold your files hostage. Stop using it and your .md files still open.
- Is there a Windows version?
It's a v2 goal. The editor layer has been written under cross-platform constraints since day one — no file paths in the web layer, a requestId reserved in the bridge protocol. It's the shell that has to be rewritten. Until then, Windows can use the online editor — Chrome and Edge mount a local folder just the same.
- How is this different from Obsidian or Typora?
The data model is close to Obsidian: files as truth, wikilinks, tags. The editing feel is closer to Bear: true WYSIWYG, no syntax markers. And Chinese typesetting has been a first-class concern since the first commit.
- Does anything get uploaded?
No. The app has no networked runtime dependency and bundles its own fonts. This website has no forms and no analytics either — see the privacy policy.