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Scratchmark

Scratchmark is a Markdown editor, available on Linux: Markdown support.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Scratchmark is a Markdown editor, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: 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
  • “Organized markdown editor” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Organized markdown editor” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Scratchmark is a pleasant text editor for writing.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “It can display simple writing statistics, and has features, such as focus mode and fullscreen support to reduce distractions.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Scratchmark is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

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

About

# Markdown Editor for Writing **Scratchmark** is a pleasant text editor for writing. It tries to give you everything you need and otherwise stay out of your way so you can just focus on the text. The app can be used for writing essays and making quick notes alike. Its file management is built around a folder structure that can handle large projects with lots of files. You can add any folder on your computer to the library, and move files around by dragging and dropping. It uses Markdown, which means that ==all text formatting can be done by typing.== The editor is simple and intuitive, so anyone should be able to just pick it up and start writing. It can display simple writing statistics, and has features, such as focus mode and fullscreen support to reduce distractions. Markdown is an open and widely used markup language. Documents created with Scratchmark are more or less compatible with other similar apps. If you already have a "notebook" or a project from another app, you can just add the folder to Scratchmark's library. This also goes the other way: if you've had enough of Scratchmark, it's easy to switch to something else.

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 GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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