MarkPad++ — a small Markdown editor for Windows
Version 1.0.3 · Microsoft Store

Fast, local, no account.

MarkPad++ is a small Markdown editor for Windows. It opens instantly, works entirely offline, and never asks you to sign in to read your own notes.

Write in the source, press Ctrl+E to read it rendered, and keep your place either way.

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Free · Windows 10 version 1809 or newer · no telemetry

MarkPad++ app icon
MarkPad++ editing a Markdown document in the dark theme, with syntax highlighting and a tab bar The same document in reader mode, rendered with headings, a table and a highlighted passage SourceCtrl+EReader
The same document twice: the source, highlighted as you type, and the rendered page it becomes. Toggling without scrolling leaves the editor exactly where it was.
What it does

Everything a Markdown file needs, and nothing it doesn't.

Tabs
One tab per file, Notepad++ style

Each tab keeps its own text, undo history, caret and place in the document. Drag them into order, close with Ctrl+W, and reopening a file brings its tab forward instead of duplicating it.

Reader mode
Rendered in place, keeping your place

The reader opens at whatever the editor was showing, and scrolling it moves the editor to match. No split pane to manage, no jumping back to the top.

Highlighter
A marker pen, not just colour coding

Ctrl+Shift+H wraps the selection in ==marks== and paints the passage in the editor and in the rendered page alike.

Export
PDF, Word and OpenDocument

Write the rendered document out as .pdf, .docx or .odt — formatting, tables, links and images included, Markdown punctuation left behind.

Find
Every hit at once

Find highlights all matches and wraps around, with optional case and whole-word matching. Terms are always literal, so a dot matches a dot. Replace All is a single undo step.

Themes
Light and dark, all the way through

One theme drives the editor, the chrome, the rendered page and the native Windows title bar. Switch from View › Theme and nothing is left behind.

Shortcuts

Formatting, toggled.

Applying a format a second time removes it again, and heading shortcuts replace the level rather than stacking onto it. The full list — tabs, find, navigation — is on the docs page.

ActionShortcutMarkup
BoldCtrl+B**text**
ItalicCtrl+I*text*
HighlightCtrl+Shift+H==text==
StrikethroughCtrl+Shift+X~~text~~
Inline codeCtrl+``text`
LinkCtrl+K[text](url)
Heading 1–3Ctrl+1…3# text
Reader modeCtrl+E—
New in 1.0.3

New functionality

  • Export rendered Markdown documents to PDF, OpenDocument Text (.odt), and Microsoft Word (.docx), including formatting, tables, links, and images.
  • Open files as new tabs in the existing MarkPad++ window instead of launching another application window.
  • Match the native Windows title bar to the selected light or dark theme.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed the Windows title bar not updating immediately after switching themes.
  • Fixed block quote formatting in Word and OpenDocument exports, preserving the full-width background and left border without an empty table column.
Full changelog

Open a .md file and just read it.

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