Markdown, minus the markup
Markless
A native markdown editor with no syntax in sight. Your files stay plain .md on disk — in the app you only ever see the beautiful part. No hash marks, no asterisks, ever.
The magic detail
The caret never touches a hash mark.
Put your cursor in a heading and there's no # to fight past — just the styled words. Bold, italic, links, inline code: all live as you type, none of the markup ever showing. You write; it looks right.
Portable by design
It's always just a .md file.
The prettiness lives in the editor, never in the file. On disk it's plain, portable GitHub-flavored markdown — open it in any other editor, commit it to git, hand it to anyone. Your words outlive any one app, this one included.
A writing home
Lists, tables, callouts, code — all behaving.
Return continues a list; an empty Return leaves it; Tab indents. Tables you actually Tab through. Note, Tip, Warning and Caution callouts a keystroke away. Fenced code that keeps its syntax literal. Everything a real document needs — styled, quiet, and out of your way.
Now with math
Math, set properly.
Formulas are text, not pictures. Type $E = mc^2$ and it typesets itself the moment you close the dollar sign — no preview pane, because there's nothing to preview. The document is the rendered thing.
- Typeset natively — no browser engine, no network, no JavaScript.
- Works exactly like bold always has: type the shorthand, get the real thing, never see the syntax again.
- Get the LaTeX wrong and it stays visible until you fix it — nothing vanishes without telling you.
Inline, in a sentence
Energy is $E = mc^2$, exactly.
Energy is E = mc2 , exactly.
Display, on its own line
$$\int_0^\infty e^{-x}\,dx = 1$$
∫∞0 e−x dx = 1
Tables you can touch
Tables, without the dialog box.
Click into a table and small grips appear along its edges. Reach toward a boundary and a + shows up exactly there — one click inserts the column or row where you were already pointing. No menu, no dialog, no "before or after?" Point at a grip instead and it turns to a minus: click to remove.
- Tab and Shift-Tab move between cells; Return in the last row adds another.
- Press esc, or click away — a table is never a mode you're stuck in.
- Undo puts the table back and the cursor exactly where it was.
- Your tables save as ordinary GFM markdown — the same table any other editor reads.
In a table, pointing at a boundary
| Task | Hours |
|---|---|
| Draft | 3 |
Auf Deutsch
At home in German.
On a German Mac, Markless is German from first launch — no setting to find. Menus, settings, every dialog, and the entire handbook, written in German with German examples and its own shortcut tables. It reaches into your documents too: insert a table and the columns read „Spalte 1“.
Die Menüleiste
Eine neue Tabelle
| Spalte 1 | Spalte 2 |
|---|---|
A real, native Mac app — free to try for as long as you like, and $9 to keep when it becomes where your words live. No subscription, no ads, no tracking, ever.
Try it free, buy it once.
Write in it for as long as you like. If Markless becomes where your words live, a few dollars keeps it — on every Mac you own, one time.
Get updates on Markless
Hear about new versions and fixes when they land — nothing else. A note now and then, no spam.
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