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MarkText

MarkText is a Markdown editor, available on Windows and Linux: Markdown support.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

MarkText is a Markdown editor, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Next generation markdown editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Next generation markdown editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “It is a concise text editor, dedicated to improving your writing efficiency.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of MarkText is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

MarkText is a free and open-source realtime preview markdown editor which support both CommonMark Spec and GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec. It is a concise text editor, dedicated to improving your writing efficiency. Features: Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience GitHub Flavored Markdown like task-lists, tables, links and emojis Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX) and front matter Code fence for all the popular languages Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency Various edit modes and themes: source code mode, typewriter mode, focus mode

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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