Welcome to MarkdownPad 2

MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows.

Built exclusively for Markdown

Enjoy first-class Markdown support with easy access to Markdown syntax and convenient keyboard shortcuts.

Give them a try:

Bold (Ctrl+B) and Italic (Ctrl+I)
Quotes (Ctrl+Q)
Code blocks (Ctrl+K)
Headings 1, 2, 3 (Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3)
Lists (Ctrl+U and Ctrl+Shift+O)

See your changes instantly with LivePreview

Don't guess if your hyperlink syntax is correct; LivePreview will show you exactly what your document looks like every time you press a key.

Make it your own

Fonts, color schemes, layouts and stylesheets are all 100% customizable so you can turn MarkdownPad into your perfect editor.

A robust editor for advanced Markdown users

MarkdownPad supports multiple Markdown processing engines, including standard Markdown, Markdown Extra (with Table support) and GitHub Flavored Markdown.

With a tabbed document interface, PDF export, a built-in image uploader, session management, spell check, auto-save, syntax highlighting and a built-in CSS management interface, there's no limit to what you can do with MarkdownPad.