Paperdown: Markdown Editor

Markdown preview & PDF export

Only for Mac

$4.99

Mac

Write in Markdown and export a PDF that reads like a document, not a printed web page. Real bookmarks, math and diagrams. Nothing leaves your Mac. Paperdown Markdown in. Real documents out. Paperdown is a native Markdown editor with a live preview and a PDF export that produces a genuine document — with a real outline, running heads, and page breaks where you put them. One rendering engine drives the preview and the export, so what you see on screen is exactly what lands in the PDF. No surprises at the last step. Ideal for: • Technical documentation • README and specification files • Academic papers and theses • Reports and runbooks • Release notes and handbooks • Anyone who writes in Markdown and delivers in PDF Features A preview you can trust • Live preview beside your text, or on its own • Scroll sync that works in both directions • Four typeset themes: GitHub, Academic, Technical, Print • Page View lays out at true page width, so you see page breaks before you export • Light and dark Math, diagrams, and code • LaTeX math rendered with KaTeX, inline and display • Mermaid diagrams rendered entirely offline • Syntax highlighting across roughly 40 languages • Footnotes, task lists, tables, heading anchors, attributes • Your own CSS, and per-document settings from YAML front matter A PDF export that respects the page • A real PDF outline — bookmarks work in Preview, Acrobat, and Books • Optional generated table of contents • US Letter, A4, US Legal, Tabloid • Narrow, normal, or wide margins • Running headers and footers with page, title, and date tokens • Print URLs after links, for documents read on paper • Save any setup as a named preset A whole folder at once • Browse a folder of Markdown files in its own window or in the sidebar • Recursive scan that skips .git, node_modules, and build output • Export a PDF for every file, or one combined PDF with continuous page numbering and a bookmark per source file A real Mac editor • Built on TextKit 2, with highlighting derived from the actual Markdown syntax tree rather than pattern guesses • Typewriter mode and focus mode for long sessions • Line numbers, invisible characters, pinch to zoom • Insert tables from a starter grid • Command palette and a heading outline that jumps anywhere • Opens .md, .markdown, .mdown, and .mkd Native. Fast. Private. Built with Swift, SwiftUI, and AppKit. • 100% native performance • The preview renders offline, under a strict content policy • Images hosted on the internet stay blocked until you allow them, because a remote image can tell whoever hosts it that you opened a document, when, and from where • Images stored next to your document always load • No analytics, no tracking, no account • Your documents never leave your Mac Available in 48 languages Paperdown's interface is available in 48 languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and Russian — with right-to-left layout where it belongs. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

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    Information

    Seller
    Mohammed Zackria Dawood Basha
    Size
    10.7 MB
    Category
    Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 44 more
    • English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © Binary Boots
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    • Supports

    • Family Sharing

      Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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