Dawn DocDownload

NEWVersion 1.1 for macOS, Windows and Linux

Markdown, the Word way.

Dawn Doc opens any .md file as a clean, formatted page you edit like a Word document. Underneath, it is still the plain Markdown file you started with.

Try it free for 30 daysBuy once, US$10

No account. No subscription. Works offline.

Edit a formatted page, with a ribbon like a word processor.

Dawn Doc in visual mode: a formatted document with a ribbon above it and a folder sidebar
  • Opens the .md files you already have
  • Leaves the Markdown you did not edit exactly as it was
  • CommonMark and GitHub-flavoured Markdown

One file, two views

Drag the line. The page and the Markdown are the same file.

Write on a formatted page with a ribbon, right-click menus and a slash menu. Switch to the source with one click when you want the raw text, or keep both open side by side.

Drag the handle, or focus it and use the arrow keys.

The file as Markdown sourceThe same file as a formatted page

Everything a document needs

From a quick note to a printed report.

PDF that looks printed

A cover, a table of contents with page numbers, headers and footers, five document themes. Word and standalone HTML too.

The print preview: a Contents page with dotted leaders and page numbers

Your folder, one click away

Browse a folder of notes in the sidebar and reorder a document's sections from its outline.

The folder sidebar listing a project's Markdown files

Find anything

The command palette jumps to any file, heading or command. Find and replace works in both views.

The command palette finding a file and two headings

Rich blocks, plain text

Tables, images, callouts, task lists, math, Mermaid diagrams and footnotes, all saved as standard Markdown.

  • | table |
  • > [!NOTE]
  • - [x] task
  • $E=mc^2$
  • ```mermaid
  • [^1]
A Mermaid flowchart block: its source above, the rendered diagram below

Made for writing

  • Focus mode hides everything but the page
  • Start from templates, or save your own
  • A frontmatter panel for YAML metadata
  • Spell check that works offline
  • Drafts saved as you type
A document in the GitHub theme

Document themes

Change the look, not the file.

Five built-in themes for the page and its PDF, or write your own in CSS. A theme is remembered per document in its frontmatter.

Your files stay on your computer.

Dawn Doc has no account and no cloud. It goes online only to activate or deactivate a licence, and to load web images a document links to.

  • No account

    Download, open a file, write.

  • Works offline

    Even activation can be done from another device.

  • Plain files

    .md in, .md out. Open them anywhere.

Try every feature free for 30 days.

The trial starts the first time you open Dawn Doc. After it, files still open for reading, copying and printing until you add a licence.

Licence

US$10

Once. Yours to keep.

Use it on up to 3 of your computers, on any mix of systems. Updates to 1.x included.

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