A local-first editor with no cloud and no account — every doc is a plain .md file on your own disk. Nothing is uploaded unless you send it. For when “never left the machine” isn’t a nicety, it’s a requirement.
Most editors keep your documents on someone else’s servers and let you read them. This one keeps them on your disk and has nowhere else to put them. No backend means no backend to breach, subpoena, or quietly change its policy.
Your documents are read and written straight to disk — there is no copy sitting in a database somewhere you can't see.
A folder of files can't be breached the way a cloud account can. There's no server-side store of your writing to lose.
The only routine network contact is the app checking for a new version. Your documents are never part of that check.
There’s nothing to register, no email to hand over, no password to manage. The editor works fully offline from the first launch — pull the network cable and nothing about your writing changes.
You see formatting as you type — not raw **symbols** — but what’s on disk is plain, human-readable markdown. It round-trips cleanly and is never normalized away: open the same file in any other editor and it reads exactly as you left it.
Headings, tables, code with highlighting, nested and checkable lists — all kept as plain text you can read without this app at all.
No hidden wrapper, no proprietary container around your text. What you wrote is what’s in the file — no nonsense added.
Open it elsewhere, edit it, come back — the structure survives both ways. The format is the same one the rest of the world uses.
Your writing isn’t held hostage by this app. It’s just a folder of plain-text .md files you own. If the company goes away, if you stop using it, if you simply don’t like it tomorrow — every document is right there on your disk, readable and editable in anything.
Clouds shut down, change owners, change policies. A folder of plain files on your disk doesn’t. The exit is always open — that isn’t a fallback, it’s the whole posture.
There is exactly one moment a document can leave your disk: when you choose to share it. That step connects a free account on your side and uploads a private copy, served at an unguessable link that is never search-indexed — you can revoke or regenerate it anytime, and a revoked link stops being served. Reading it needs no account: the person you send it to opens a clean read page in their browser. Commenting or editing does take a free account, on both sides, so every contribution is attributed to a person. The editor itself never phones home for your content; before you share, nothing is uploaded.
If you write in legal, health, finance, or anywhere data can’t wander, the reason this fits is simple: the editor never sends your documents anywhere. We’re not claiming end-to-end encryption, compliance badges, or audits we don’t have — we’re telling you where your files are, which is on your machine, and nowhere else, until you decide otherwise.
No — not unless you choose to share a document. Your writing stays as plain .md files on your own disk. The only routine network contact is the app checking for a new version; your documents are never part of that.
For your data it doesn't really matter. Your documents are just a folder of plain .md files on your disk — readable and editable in any other tool, and yours even if the app is gone. Your ownership doesn't hinge on the app's licence.
The editor never sends your documents to a server, so there's no backend to leak — which makes it well-suited to sensitive work. Sharing is the one opt-in moment a copy goes to the cloud, and it stays under your control, revocable anytime. We don't claim certifications or audits we don't have.
Completely. There's no account and no sign-in; the editor works fully offline from the first launch. Pull the network cable and nothing about your writing changes.
Not for your content. The app checks for a new version — that's the only routine network contact — and your documents are never sent as part of it.
It’s also a Google Docs alternative that keeps your files, and a clean home for the markdown your AI hands you. See the full feature set or compare it to what you use now.
Download the editor and open your first .md — no account, no upload, nothing to leak.