Online Markdown editor

A free online Markdown editor with live preview

Write Markdown on the left and watch it render on the right as you type — the same GitHub-flavored Markdown you use in READMEs, issues, docs, and notes apps. No account, no install, and no upload: the editor, the preview, and every export run in your browser.

• Formatting toolbar and shortcuts — bold, italic, headings, links, images, code, quotes, lists, checkboxes, and tables, with the keyboard shortcuts you already know from docs apps.
• Smart lists — Enter continues a bulleted, numbered, or task list; Tab nests an item; Enter on an empty item ends the list.
• Autosave — every change is saved in this browser, so closing the tab or a crash never loses your draft.
• Live stats — words, characters, lines, and reading time, plus a word count for the current selection.
• Split, write, or preview — side by side on desktop, a write/preview toggle on phones, and a distraction-free full-screen mode.
• Themes — preview (and export) in GitHub, clean sans, classic serif, or academic paper style.

A Markdown viewer for any .md file

Got a README, changelog, or notes file you just want to read? Drop the .md file onto the editor (or click "Open") and switch to Preview — tables, code blocks, task lists, and links render exactly as they would on GitHub. The file is read locally; it isn't uploaded anywhere, which makes this Markdown viewer safe for private documents.

An online Markdown editor with PDF export

When the document is done, the export menu turns it into whatever you need:

• PDF— printed by your browser's own engine, so the text stays selectable and links stay clickable. For page size, margins, a title page, or a table of contents, open the document in the Markdown to PDF converter.
• Word (.docx) — real Word headings, lists, and tables you can keep editing, the same engine as the Markdown to Word converter.
• HTML — a standalone, styled page that opens anywhere, or the HTML fragment copied to your clipboard (see also Markdown to HTML).
• .md— the plain Markdown file, named after your document's first heading (⌘/Ctrl + S).

Markdown formatter: tidy tables and lists in one click

Hand-written Markdown tables drift out of alignment, lists mix * and -, and pasted text brings trailing spaces and piles of blank lines. The Tidy button formats the whole document without changing how it renders — table columns are padded into a clean grid (wide characters like CJK and emoji included):

| name | role | since |
|:--|:-:|--:|
| ada | engineer | 2024 |

becomes

| name | role     | since |
| :--- | :------: | ----: |
| ada  | engineer |  2024 |

It's one undo step, so ⌘/Ctrl + Z puts everything back.

Markdown cheat sheet

Everything you need to write Markdown, with the exact syntax to copy. Open the Cheat sheet panel in the editor toolbar to insert any of these at your cursor.

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3

Put a space after the # — #title without one is plain text on GitHub.

Bold, italic, and strikethrough

**bold**  _italic_  ***bold italic***  ~~strikethrough~~

Markdown new line and line breaks

Markdown joins consecutive lines into one paragraph. To break a line without starting a new paragraph, end it with two spaces or a backslash, or use <br>. A blank line starts a new paragraph.

Roses are red··
violets are blue\
Markdown is neat<br>
and so are you

(·· = two spaces)

Markdown quote (blockquote)

> The best tool is often the one only your team needs.
>
> > A nested quote

Markdown numbered list

1. First
2. Second
   1. Nested (indent three spaces)
3. Third

The numbers don't need to be right — 1. on every line still renders 1, 2, 3. Start with another number (e.g. 5.) to continue a list from there. Bulleted lists use -, *, or +.

Markdown checkbox (task list)

- [x] Write the spec
- [ ] Ship it
- [ ] Tell the team

On GitHub, checkboxes in issues and pull requests can be ticked right in the rendered view.

Markdown table syntax: how to make a table in Markdown

| Feature   | Free | Pro  |
| --------- | ---- | ---- |
| Editor    | Yes  | Yes  |
| Export    | Yes  | Yes  |

Three rules: a header row, a separator row with at least three dashes per column, and pipes between cells. The outer pipes are optional and the columns don't have to line up — but aligned tables are much easier to read, which is what "Tidy" does. To put a literal pipe in a cell, escape it as \|. Got a spreadsheet? The CSV to Markdown table converter writes the table for you.

Markdown table format and alignment

| Left   | Center | Right |
| :----- | :----: | ----: |
| a      |   b    |     c |

A colon on the left of the dashes aligns left, on both sides centers, on the right aligns right — handy for numbers.

Markdown underline

<u>Underlined text</u>

There's no Markdown syntax for underline (underscores mean italic), so use the HTML tag. <ins> works too.

How to center text in Markdown

<p align="center">Centered text</p>

<div align="center">
  <img src="https://example.com/logo.png" width="120">
</div>

Markdown has no alignment, so centering needs HTML. GitHub keeps the align attribute but strips style, which is why READMEs use align="center".

Links, images, and code

[Link text](https://example.com)
![Alt text](https://example.com/image.png)
Inline `code` and a fenced block:

```js
console.log("hello");
```

Keyboard shortcuts

Split view vs a WYSIWYG Markdown editor

WYSIWYG Markdown editors hide the syntax and show only formatted text. That's friendly, but they rewrite your Markdown on save — list markers change, tables get reflowed, HTML you typed disappears. A split-view editor like this one keeps the source exactly as you wrote it and still shows the formatted result live, so what you commit to a repo or paste into a CMS is predictable. The toolbar covers the WYSIWYG-style convenience: select text and click, no syntax to remember.

Frequently asked questions