MarkSchrift — Markdown Editor for Apple Devices
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Your documents are stored wherever you choose to save them — on your device or in iCloud Drive. MarkSchrift works with the Files app, so you have full control over file locations.
If you save documents to iCloud Drive, Apple handles syncing automatically. Edit on your iPhone and the changes appear on your Mac and iPad. No setup required beyond signing into iCloud.
MarkSchrift supports standard CommonMark markdown plus extended syntax:
==text====g:text== green, ==b:text== blue, ==m:text== magenta/pink^text^~text~++text++#tagname[[Document Name]]— Romans 8:1-4 ESV- [ ] item with tappable checkboxes;;dd, ;;tt, ;;dt, or ;;td\pagebreak on its own lineOutlines are numbered lists, shown in your choice of style (Settings ▸ Display): Numbered (1, 2, 3), Legal (I, A, 1, a, i), or Decimal (1, 1.1, 1.1.1). The file itself stays standard Markdown, so it opens correctly anywhere.
Reorganize without touching a number: ⌥Tab / ⌥⇧Tab (or ⌘] / ⌘[) indent or outdent a point together with all of its children, and ⌥⌘↑ / ⌥⌘↓ move it among its siblings — the same controls are on the floating format bar for touch. Numbering maintains itself as you insert, delete, and move items.
The first number of each list is yours: start with 1. for a fresh outline, or — after a stretch of regular text — start the next list with the number that should come next (say 6.) and the outline continues across the prose. Indent a paragraph one level to attach commentary inside an outline; it travels with its point.
Yes, two ways. Opening a Markdown file written anywhere else converts its indentation automatically — tabs or 2-, 3-, or 4-space levels all work. And ••• ▸ Paste as Outline inserts a copied outline at your cursor's level, numbering merged.
Choose ••• ▸ Collaborate to share the open document. You get two links — edit and view-only; collaborators join from another MarkSchrift device or from any web browser, no app or account needed. Everyone in the session appears as a named, colored cursor, with a roster showing who's present. Sessions are end-to-end encrypted: the key travels only inside the link, so the relay server never sees your text. You choose how long a session lives (1 hour–2 weeks), and ending the share purges the server's copy.
A session holds up to 12 simultaneous editors and 50 viewers. ••• ▸ Collaborate ▸ My Shared Documents lists every session you've hosted, with live status, link re-sending, and End & Delete. A brief network drop reconnects and merges automatically; if a session ends while you're disconnected, the app tells you to copy any unsynced edits before rejoining (a rejoin replaces local content with the shared version).
Yes. Shared sessions are for honest work: documents are checked against a content policy when a share starts and periodically while it runs, and a matching document can't be shared. Because sessions are encrypted, the check happens privately on your own device — the server never reads your text. Anyone who receives a link can report a shared document; repeated reports remove the session. Your private documents are never screened — only what you choose to share live.
Yes. ••• ▸ Print / PDF gives you Print, a quick PDF preview, and Save PDF — paginated, with optional page numbers and manual page breaks, and your outline numbering rendered with true hanging indents. You can also export HTML and Word (.docx), or share the Markdown file itself.
The full guide is built into the app: choose Help ▸ MarkSchrift Help on the Mac, or ••• ▸ MarkSchrift Help on iPhone and iPad. It covers every feature, with a complete keyboard-shortcut and syntax reference.
Yes. A built-in palette lets you insert polytonic Greek and pointed Hebrew — tap a letter, then breathing marks, accents, or vowel points to build the form you need.
Copy a passage in Logos and choose “Paste as Scripture.” MarkSchrift strips the formatting, keeps the verses, and adds the reference as a link that opens Logos to that passage.
MarkSchrift runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS / iPadOS 18, and Mac with macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later.
That reaches back further than it sounds: iOS 18 supports the iPhone XR and XS (2018) and newer, iPadOS 18 supports the iPad (7th generation, 2019), iPad Air 3, iPad mini 5, and iPad Pro (2018) and newer, and macOS 15 supports most Macs from around 2018–2020 onward. In short, hardware six or more years old still runs the latest MarkSchrift — you don't need a new device.
No. MarkSchrift does not collect any data — no accounts, no analytics. Live collaboration sessions pass through our relay end-to-end encrypted, so the server cannot read your documents, and ending a session purges its copy. See our Privacy Policy for details.