MarkSchrift

The plain-text workspace for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Write your meeting notes, your class handout, your next chapter - rendered live as you type. Plan your week, track your projects; your files go anywhere.

Currently in limited beta, coming soon to the App Store

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Live preview, plain Markdown

See your Markdown rendered as you type, with no split panes and no preview toggle, while the file stays portable .md you fully own.

Outlines that number themselves

Legal (I · A · 1 · a · i) and decimal (1.1.1) numbering that maintains itself as you write, and numbered headings that join the same hierarchy, in the editor and in print.

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Write together, privately

Co-edit a document in real time over an end-to-end-encrypted link, joinable from any browser, no account needed. The relay only ever sees scrambled bytes, never your words.

Tasks and a live Agenda

Plan with @due, @to(name), and priority tags in plain text. The Agenda gathers your whole vault, by status, project, person, or week, and updates itself as you type.

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Scripture tools built in

Paste a passage from Logos as clean Markdown, turn a citation like “— Romans 8:1-4 ESV” into a link that opens Logos, and type polytonic Greek and pointed Hebrew from a built-in palette.

Signature

Keep score at game night

Drop a live scorepad into a note: players, rounds, running totals, and a winner's crown, set up for Cribbage, Yahtzee, Catan, and more. It's plain text, so a shared session keeps score together.

Your whole vault, linked and searchable

Every note in one window, joined by [[wiki links]] and backlinks, with full-text search across everything (⇧⌘F) that drops you right on the matching line.

A keyboard built for touch

On an iPad or iPhone with no hardware keyboard, a short on-screen keyboard with a symbol on every key (slide up-left or up-right to reach it), the format bar built in, and double-tap a letter to capitalize.

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Projects and your week

Tag a task +project and give the project a home page that gathers its notes, open work, and people. A note per week, a review that carries open tasks forward, and a Today view of just what needs attention.

Math, rendered live

Write LaTeX between dollar signs, $E = mc^2$ inline or a $$ … $$ block, and it renders as you type, the same in the editor, a shared link, and your PDF and HTML exports. Works offline; a lone $ stays a plain dollar sign.

What makes MarkSchrift different

It brings together what people love about the best Markdown apps (live‑preview editing, a vault of plain files you own, wiki links and backlinks, fast search) and adds what they usually don't:

Live Collaboration

Share an end-to-end encrypted link and co-edit in real time; everyone appears as a named, colored cursor, and collaborators can join from any browser. Up to 12 editors and 50 viewers; the server never sees your text.

Know Who Did What

When someone edits from a browser or another device, the tasks they touch say so: a small @from tag records their name and the time, and each note keeps a collaborators: line of everyone who has edited it. It's all plain text in your file — a record, not a lock — and your own edits never carry a stamp.

On-Screen Keyboard

Writing on an iPad or iPhone with no hardware keyboard? MarkSchrift has its own: compact, so it keeps most of the screen, with a symbol on every key (a quick slide reaches it), the whole format bar built in, and touches like double-tap to capitalize and hold-space to glide the cursor.

Scripture Tools

Paste a passage from Logos as clean markdown, or paste a copied outline from any app, and turn a citation like “— Romans 8:1-4 ESV” into a link that opens Logos to the verse.

Greek & Hebrew Keyboard

Built-in polytonic Greek and pointed Hebrew palettes; tap letters and diacritics to compose ἐν ἀρχῇ or בְּרֵאשִׁית.

Real Outlining

Numbered, legal (I / A / 1 / a / i), decimal (1.1.1), or alphanumeric outlines. Move or indent a point with all its children in one keystroke; numbering maintains itself, even across paragraphs of discussion.

Projects & Your Week

Tag tasks +project and give each project a home page: its notes, open work, finished work, and people, gathered live. A note per week and a Weekly Review carry what's open forward; nothing lives outside your Markdown.

Tasks & a Live Agenda

Plan with @due, person tags, and priorities in plain text, write dates in your own words, and read the Agenda by status, project, person, or week; it follows your typing and never edits your document. One-tap sweeps tidy what's done; a Today view shows just what needs attention.

Scoring Pads

Drop a live scoring grid into a note: players as columns, rounds as rows, running totals and a winner's crown. Start one set up for Cribbage, Yahtzee, Catan, Hearts, and more, each with a how-to-play card. It's plain text, so a shared session keeps score together.

Math, Rendered Live

Write LaTeX between dollar signs — $E = mc^2$ — and it typesets in place as you write, no preview pane. Display blocks get centered equations, the file on disk stays plain text, and the same renderer drives shared links and your PDF and HTML exports, fully offline. A lone $ still just means money.

The essentials, done well

Live Preview Editing

Write in markdown and see it rendered as you type, with no split panes and no preview toggle. The file stays plain, portable Markdown.

Your Vault, Linked & Searchable

Every note in one window: open any with a click, join them with [[wiki links]] and backlinks, label with #tags, and search the full text of your whole vault (⇧⌘F), landing right on the matching line.

Pictures

Paste, drag, or insert an image and it's copied into a vault-attachments folder in your vault, so a note and its pictures stay together even if you move the note. Size it from the caption (|400 for pixels, |50% for the column), and it embeds into your PDF, Word, and HTML exports.

Table of Contents & Outline

A live outline of your headings in a side panel; click one to jump straight there. Drop [toc] into the page for an in-document table of contents, and export PDFs with a navigable bookmark sidebar and clickable links. Size headings per level so they sit naturally in the page.

PDF, Word & HTML Export

Paginated PDFs with page numbers, page breaks, a navigable outline bookmark sidebar with clickable links, and your outline numbering and heading sizes rendered true to the editor, plus Word (.docx) and HTML.

Works With Any Markdown

Documents written anywhere open cleanly; tabs or any indent style convert automatically. Your files remain standard Markdown other apps understand.

Make It Yours

Choose your editor font (including a handwriting face), accent color, reading width, numbering style, and toolbar position, and search the full guide in the in-app Help.

iCloud Drive

Store documents in iCloud Drive and they stay in sync across all your Apple devices. On the Mac or iPad, open documents as tabs in one window.

Private by Design

No accounts, no analytics, no data collection. Documents stay on your device; live sessions are end-to-end encrypted, you can end any share (and purge the server's copy) from My Shared Documents, and shared sessions follow a content policy.

Extended Markdown Syntax

Beyond standard CommonMark, MarkSchrift supports:

FeatureSyntax
Highlight (yellow)==text==
Highlight (green / blue / pink)==g:text== ==b:text== ==m:text==
Superscript^text^
Subscript~text~
Underline++text++
Code block (syntax-highlighted)```lang
Tag#tagname
Wiki-link[[Document Name]]
Image (optional size)![alt|400](image.png)
Center / right align::: center
Scripture link (Logos)— Romans 8:1-4 ESV
Task list- [ ] item
Date / time stamp;;dd ;;tt ;;dt
Page break (PDF)\pagebreak

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Available on All Apple Platforms

iPhone (iOS 18+) · iPad (iPadOS 18+) · Mac (macOS 15+)