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Marklet

A lightweight native macOS Markdown editor.

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Downloads and the open source parsing core for Marklet.

  • Grab the latest version from the Releases page.
  • The direct download version checks for updates through Sparkle.

Make it yours

Write with live formatting, edit tables in place, and choose a theme that feels right.

Marklet Warm is based on the Primary theme, with warm paper colors and purple and teal accents.

Marklet Warm showing formatted writing, highlights, and a checklist

Marklet in Catppuccin Latte with formatted notes and a highlighted sentence Marklet in Dracula with a syntax highlighted Swift code block
Catppuccin Latte Dracula

Find Nord, Catppuccin, and Dracula in Marklet's community theme browser. Preview their supported colors before choosing a theme.

Nord

Marklet in Nord showing a weekly plan with an editable table and checklist

Nord, with two editing mode controls and the floating formatting toolbar.

More screenshots: Catppuccin Mocha math and Paper reading

Quick thoughts with Scraps

Keep a floating notepad close by for ideas, reminders, and small checklists. Enable Scraps in Settings when you want it. Your notes stay in Markdown files.

The standalone Scraps panel in Nord with a short note and checklist

These screenshots show the full Marklet app. The standalone open source core demo is below.

Open source core

Marklet’s Markdown parsing core is open source under GPLv3 with the additional permission in LICENSE.additional-terms. The full app and its editor remain in a private repository.

The core is a standalone Swift package with no external package dependencies. It exposes source ranges for emphasis, code, math, tables, and front matter, plus basic native text rendering with configurable fonts and colors. See CORE.md for usage, scope, and attribution.

Native core demo showing Markdown source and styled text

Try the native demo: edit Markdown and switch text palettes.

Requires Swift 6.1 and macOS 14 or later. Run swift test to build and test the core.

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