What changed, and when

Marklet 1.7 brings a formatting toolbar, clearer editing modes, and a more comfortable Scraps panel.

Edit your way

Edit, Source, and Read have their own buttons and tooltips. Command E switches between Edit and Read; Option Command E switches between Edit and Source. Edit follows your saved editing style, including True WYSIWYG. Settings and onboarding share the same controls and native previews.

The formatting toolbar follows your theme and can sit near selected text or float at the top or bottom. Its controls cover emphasis, headings, lists, links, tables, code, math, images, and callouts. Toolbar visibility and placement are available from menus and the command bar.

True WYSIWYG keeps typed punctuation literal, continues active formatting as you type, and handles deletion across hidden markers. Copy preserves formatting at selection boundaries. Paste, Paste and Match Style, and Paste as Literal Text offer different ways to bring text into a note.

Smoother document editing

Table columns expand while you type when there is room. Link and image editors have separate text and destination fields, and image placeholders remain editable. The math editor keeps its surrounding delimiters out of the editing field.

List indentation follows the parent marker, keeps continuation paragraphs and children together, and preserves separate undo steps. Empty bullets below prose no longer create accidental headings. Enter leaves inline code cleanly, and editing fenced code keeps its boundaries intact.

Nested formatting markers follow their actual enclosing styles. Find reveals matching syntax without applying unrelated editing colors, and closing Find restores the selected mode.

Scraps, within reach

The first nonblank line appears as the scrap title without changing your Markdown. Floating window controls sit in the header, and the header menu offers Always Show, Show on Hover, and Hide.

Click the position counter or press Command Shift F to search Scraps. The search view shows a result count and a Back button. Command K remains available for links. Jump to the latest scrap with the header arrow or Command Backslash; previous and next scraps keep Command Left Bracket and Command Right Bracket. Existing custom shortcuts are preserved.

Command N reuses an empty current or newest scrap. Move to Trash appears first in the commands menu and asks for confirmation in a sheet attached to the panel.

Badges follow the theme, the counter has even padding and hover feedback, and the scrollbar is less intrusive. Text can scroll beneath the header and badges, with space to scroll the final line clear. That space survives resizing and includes rendered tables, math, and images. Find remains visible beneath the hover header, and switching panel presentations no longer triggers recursive settings updates.

Requires macOS 14 or later. Runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Shipped as a direct download first. The App Store was on 1.2 at the time.

Themes

• A native browser for community themes, with previews, screenshots, popularity sorting, forgiving search, and separate Install and Use actions.
• An importer that maps heading, link, emphasis, background, and checkbox colors out of supported Obsidian CSS.
• Save as Custom Theme writes a named JSON copy of your current colors and gives it its own entry in the picker.
• Community theme edits survive both switching themes and updating them.
• Primary Custom, a warm palette using Marklet's own emphasis colors.
• Theme typography is optional. It names any font it cannot find along with the fallback it used, and it disables the manual font controls while it is on.

Color and settings

• The native color picker, with a color square, a wheel, opacity, and HEXA and RGBA values.
• Scraps starts off on new installs. A preference you saved yourself is left alone.
• Settings keeps its window layout, and puts the scrollbar at the outer edge.

Fixed

• Document headers and native previews follow your theme colors, and themed links keep their hand cursor.
• Combined emphasis markers reveal correctly at the caret, and list markers follow text colors.

Superseded by 1.4 as a direct download. The App Store was on 1.2 at the time.

Tables

• Insert Table opens a size picker. Sweep a grid to choose rows by columns, or type a larger size. Rows count the header, the way Pages does it.
• Very large tables no longer slow the document. Highlighting, scrolling, and typing near a big table are each many times faster.

Licensing

• Macs that run Marklet before 1 October 2026 keep a free license for good, issued by the license server and bound to that Mac.
• Seat management from any Mac, a Keep This Mac Activated option, and a four week offline grace period with warnings before it runs out.

Styling

• Bold italic text reveals all of its markers, and code inside bold or italic keeps that emphasis.

Out now on the Mac App Store and as a direct download.

Saving and safety

• Undo steps back the way you typed, a burst at a time, instead of a character at a time, and it no longer fights with saving.
• Saving stays quiet. The warning about another application changing the file no longer appears on your own saves.
• Unsaved work is kept in a private copy and offered back after a crash, with a side by side view of what changed before you restore anything. It has its own switch in Settings.
• Version history for manual saves. Earlier versions are browsable inside Marklet, with a preview, arrow key navigation, and a confirmation before anything is restored.
• A Saved confirmation under the title when autosave is on, and the Edited label now appears reliably.

Editing and styling

• Bold italic text reveals every marker when the caret is inside it, and code inside bold or italic keeps that emphasis.
• Your choice of text, background, selection, caret, and link colors.
• Continuation lines inherit the indent and spacing of the block they belong to, and files written with other line endings survive list and table edits.
• Shortcut recording refuses reserved and duplicate combinations, and a custom Command number binding now wins over tab switching.

Fixed

• A batch of fixes for freezes, image handling, and styling that went stale without redrawing.

Superseded by 1.2 on the Mac App Store.

Added

• Autosave, off until you turn it on. Leave it off and Marklet saves when you ask and warns before closing unsaved work. Turn it on and it writes as you type, keeping earlier drafts you can return to from File then Revert To.
• Handling for files changed outside Marklet. Edit the same note elsewhere and Marklet notices. When both copies changed it shows what differs and lets you keep yours, take theirs, or combine them, and changes that do not overlap merge on their own.
• Wikilinks open. Clicking one opens the note in a tab, and clicking a link to a note you have not written yet starts it for you, named and ready.
• Intel support. Marklet now runs natively on Intel Macs as well as Apple silicon.
• Reopening the documents you had open when you last quit, even when macOS is set to close windows for every other app.
• A choice of what happens at launch: a blank document, or whatever you were working on.
• Progressive highlighting. Long documents paint the visible screen first and finish the rest in the background, so a big file is ready to type in straight away instead of after a pause.
• Folder access for documents kept on external volumes.

Changed

• Spell check now starts off. Markdown carries code, identifiers, and URLs that draw noisy squiggles out of the box, and it stays a toggle in Settings for anyone who wants it back.
• Reading Mode leaves your text alone. Autocorrect and substitutions stay suspended while you are reading rather than editing.
• Settings explains what the substitution options actually do instead of only naming them.
• Wikilinks resolve off the typing path, so a large folder of notes never stalls a keystroke, and open documents recolor as soon as the index refreshes.

Fixed

• Several ways a file could lose work when another program changed it at the same moment, including one that could write your copy over changes you had never seen.
• A crash when merging a change that deleted a line while another added one immediately above it.
• Wikilinks that highlighted but did nothing when clicked, and links that opened in another application instead of in Marklet.
• New tabs and windows appearing with a jump. They now open in place.
• Links and image paths containing parentheses no longer truncate at the first one. A Wikipedia style URL now opens in full, and an image whose path has parentheses previews properly.
• Ordered task lists draw their checkbox and keep the number, and Return continues the list with the next number and an empty box.
• Two block formulas on the same line no longer merge into one and swallow the text between them.
• Headings inside a code block fenced with tildes no longer appear in the outline, and a short fence no longer closes a longer one early.
• The placeholder for a missing image is sized to the message it shows, so a long path no longer overflows onto the line below.
• Wikilink aliases containing wide characters no longer shift the label you see.

The first public release.

Everything on the features page ships in this one: live formatting that hides the markers where your caret is not, editable tables, clickable checkboxes, LaTeX math, syntax highlighted code blocks with a copy button, callouts, wikilinks, image previews you can resize by dragging, an outline sidebar, native window tabs, a command palette, and reassignable shortcuts. About 8 MB, sandboxed, no accounts and no telemetry.

Not in it: Mermaid diagrams, footnotes, reference style links, and a dedicated HTML export. PDF works today through the macOS print panel.