dotMD
Live Markdown. Plain files.
$3.99
Now with twelve editor themes, a sidebar that holds your folders, and tags that work in every language. Your notes stay plain Markdown files on your device.
dotMD is a Markdown editor that shows your formatting as you type. Headings grow, bold turns bold, tables and images draw themselves in place and the
syntax markers only appear on the line you're editing. No split-screen preview, no switching modes. Just writing that looks like what it means.
Your notes are ordinary .md files. Open them in any other app, back them up, move them anywhere. Nothing is locked in a database you can't reach.
WRITE
- Live inline formatting - headings, bold, italic, highlight, quotes, code
- Tappable checklists, tables and images rendered right in the text
- Maths with $…$ and $$…$$ in Reading View
- Find & replace, heading outline, live word and character count
ORGANISE
- Browser-style tabs - keep everything open, reordered by dragging
- Tags, Recents and search across your library
- Twelve templates: meeting notes, project README, weekly plan, journal…
- Open any folder as a workspace and edit in place
BRING THINGS IN
- One tap to turn a copied AI answer into a formatted note
- Paste rich text from anywhere and keep the structure
- Import Markdown and text files
TAKE THINGS OUT
- Export to Markdown, PDF, HTML, Rich Text or plain text
EVERYWHERE
- iPhone, iPad and Mac, tuned for each
- Sync through a folder in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or similar works on a free
Apple ID, no subscription
PRIVATE
- No account, no analytics, no tracking, no ads
- Your notes never leave your device unless you sync them yourself
- Optional Face ID, Touch ID or passcode lock
- Notes hidden from the App Switcher
MAKE IT YOURS
- Nine accent colours, seven app icons, light and dark
- Menlo by default, or system, serif or mono
- Focus mode, typewriter mode, adjustable width and spacing
Ratings & Reviews
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New in this version
Twelve editor themes, Paper, GitHub, Sepia, Solarized, Nord, Monokai, Dracula, One Dark, Tokyo Night, Gruvbox and Night Owl. Each is a card painted in its own colours in Settings › Appearance. Two follow your system; the other ten take the whole app with them, so a dark theme no longer sits inside light menus.
An editor that reads like one. Seven body fonts, headings with room around them, blockquotes with a bar, and fenced code in a bordered box with its language coloured.
Folders that hold your notes. Open a folder in the sidebar and the notes are inside it. Drag a note onto a folder to file it, or swipe a folder to rename or delete it. Anything you never filed sits under Unfiled with a count.
Tags, search and the word count now work in every language. #café, #日本語 and #проект are tags — they used to be skipped or cut short. Searching "cafe" finds "café", and a note in Japanese, Chinese or Thai is counted properly instead of coming out at about one word.
You always know where you stand. The status bar shows Saved, and when you last edited the note. It stays on in Reading View, so a save that fails while you're reading tells you. Save, Save As and Rename are in the editor's ••• menu.
More room to work. The top row and the find bar now fit whatever width they are given, so an iPad in portrait or Split View no longer runs them off the edge. Settings, the theme picker and the accent colours are all sized for a phone.
One note: if you have never chosen a theme, the editor opens on GitHub this time and will look different. Twelve are one tap away, Paper among them.
The developer, Luis Torres, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Luis Torres
- Size
- 3.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Luis Torres

