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Markdown, beautifully.

Fast, free Markdown notes stored on-device.Secure. Simple. Stoic.

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  • No account
  • Editor stays free
  • No ads

Markdown shorthand, resolved as you type

[01]Key features

Think differently, and beautifully.

Stores all your notes locally as Markdown files. No account needed, and it supports all of Markdown.

  • Your notes are a folder

    Notes are saved as Markdown files on your device. Open them in any app, back them up, or move them elsewhere.

  • No account needed

    No sign-up and no ads. Open the app and start writing, even offline.

  • Encrypted on your device

    The private library on iPhone and iPad is encrypted. Search runs on your device, and your Mac files stay plain Markdown.

  • Write together

    Share a link to edit with someone else. Changes go directly between your devices, with no server in the middle.

  • All of Markdown

    Tables, formulas, and footnotes included. Export to PDF, HTML, or a zip.

Write in the online Markdown editor, keep working with an offline Markdown editor, or convert Markdown to PDF when it is ready to share.

[02]Formatting

Rich text that is still plain text.

Bold, italic, code, headings, tables, formulas, and diagrams. Use the shortcut you already know or type the Markdown yourself. It formats as you type, and the file stays plain Markdown.

Select a word and press the key you already know

Inline markscloses as you type
  • **bold**bold
  • *italic*italic
  • ++underlined++underlined
  • ~~struck~~struck
  • `code`code
  • ==marked==marked
  • [a link](url)a link
  • H~2~O · x^2^H2O · x2

The shortcuts are the ones your hands already have — ⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘K — and every mark can also be typed. Highlighting and list indentation are in the toolbar, with swipe indentation on touch screens. Headings answer to ⌘⌥1 through 6; lists to ⌘⇧7, 8 and 9. See how the WYSIWYG Markdown editor works.

[03]Multiplayer & sharing

Live editing, with nobody in the middle.

Share a link to edit a note together in real time, with live cursors and selections. Edits go directly between your devices, encrypted in transit, and no server keeps a copy.

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  • The link is the key

    Invites carry a random room name and a secret that never reaches the rendezvous point. No link, no way in.

  • Edits merge instead of colliding

    Two people can type in the same sentence. Work done offline folds back in when the connection returns.

  • One honest limitation

    There is no server keeping the note warm, so someone has to have it open for others to join.

[04]Type delightfully

The keyboard already knows what you meant.

Shortcuts borrowed from coding tools: one key opens every command, another finds any emoji, and common character sequences turn into arrows, dashes, and symbols.

Sixteen of the thirty-six replacements

  • ->→→
  • <-→←
  • =>→⇒
  • --→—
  • ...→…
  • !=→≠
  • >=→≥
  • <=→≤
  • +/-→±
  • (c)→©
  • (tm)→™
  • <3→❤️
  • :)→🙂
  • ;)→😉
  • :D→😃
  • </3→💔

[05]iCloud sync · iPhone, Mac & iPad

Written on the Mac, already on the phone.

One library on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Beauty Maximus syncs your notes, images, version history, and page settings through your own iCloud account. No Beauty account, and no server of ours in between.

Type on the Mac

The optional subscription

Beauty Maximus

Your library, current on iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own iCloud. The editor and your local files stay free.

  • iPhoneAvailable
  • MacAvailable
  • iPadAvailable

  • Your iCloud, not ours

    The library syncs through your own iCloud account. There is no Beauty account and no developer-operated document server between your devices.

  • Everything the library holds

    Notes, folders, images, version history and your page preferences travel together. Day or night stays a choice each device makes.

  • A conflict keeps both

    Edit the same note on two devices and the newer version wins the page; the older one is kept in version history, ready to compare or restore.

[06]Type & rhythm

Set the page the way you read.

One panel sets how every note looks: the font, the text density, a page or full-width layout, and light or dark mode. No themes to set up.

Type & rhythm

Shape the page

Typeface
Rhythm
Surface
Theme

Literata — A reading serif with optical text and display cuts.

Four faces, each with true italics and true bold. Four rhythms that differ in density, not in measure — every one holds the line between 56 and 65 characters, where reading is easiest. Pick one, or let it show you.

On craftType & Rhythm

On craft

Some things are made to be used. A few are made to be loved, and the difference is rarely in the materials.

It is in the small decisions — the weight of a line, the room a paragraph is given, the face the words are set in — made once, so nobody has to make them again.

We are what we repeatedly do.
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Not anti-AI. Pro-human.

Machines are welcome everywhere else in the day. This is the room where you think — where a sentence gets moved four times because the fourth position is the right one, and nothing offers to finish it for you.

Beauty for Mac lets you invite a compatible AI desktop client into your library. The connection is optional, access is yours to switch off, and you decide whether the client can change notes. Your folder, your files, your call.

The editor stays free

[07]Frequent questions

The things people actually ask.

  • Yes. The editor and local files stay free, with no account required. Beauty Maximus is an optional subscription for keeping a library current across Apple devices through iCloud.