Open the document. Edit it here.

PDF & Markdown workspace for Mac

Markloom is a local-first Markdown workspace for macOS. Open Markdown directly, or convert text and scanned PDFs into editable Markdown — then select a recovered passage to jump back to its page and highlighted source region.

Free · no in-app purchases Mac · macOS 14+Vision OCR on-deviceMIT-licensed core

Download on the Mac App Store Support

01 — Open

Markdown in. PDF in.

File → Open accepts Markdown (.md, .markdown), PDF, or a .markloom project. Text PDFs parse with PDFKit; scanned pages recover with Apple Vision OCR — inside an embedded sandboxed XPC service.

02 — Verify

Every passage points home.

Select a recovered passage in the Sources navigator to jump to and highlight its location in the original PDF. Recovery is checkable, never a black box.

03 — Publish

Out of the Mac, your way.

Export Markdown, HTML, paginated PDF, or DOCX using Standard or Reading presets — or open a typeset HTML preview in your browser.

Honest limits in 1.0

These are current product limits, not upcoming promises.

What 1.0 does not do

Rich-text or WYSIWYG editing
Lossless reconstruction of original PDF page design
Formula OCR or formula rendering
EPUB, batch import, folder monitoring, or custom publishing templates
Custom PDF layout beyond two presets and A4/Letter

File limits

PDFs above 500 MB or 1,000 pages are rejected for safety
A malformed page may be skipped while other pages remain editable
If a PDF cannot be processed, reopen it from File → Open to refresh macOS file permission

Features

Where Markloom fits

Paper to Markdown

Scanned letters and forms into editable text.

Research notes

Verify every recovered passage against the source page.

Publishing drafts

MD to HTML, PDF, or DOCX with two clean presets.

Confidential documents

Processing never leaves the Mac.

Pricing

Free. All of it.

Free

Markdown editing and preview
Local PDF text extraction and Vision OCR
Paragraph-level PDF source highlighting
Export to Markdown, HTML, PDF, and DOCX
.markloom project save and recovery

Markloom 1.0 has no in-app purchases, subscriptions, or ads. Official distribution is the United States Mac App Store; this site does not host a direct download.

Markdown edit + preview Vision OCR 4-format export MIT-licensed core

Prices are confirmed on the Apple purchase sheet before you buy. Restore Purchases is available in the app.

Privacy

No account, no analytics SDK, no network entitlement for document processing.
Documents, filenames, extracted text, and OCR results stay on your Mac.
App Privacy disclosure: Data Not Collected.

Read the privacy policy

FAQ

Does Markloom upload my documents?

No. Documents, filenames, extracted text, and OCR results stay on your Mac. Markloom does not operate an online conversion service.

Is Markloom free?

Yes. Version 1.0 has no account, subscription, ads, or in-app purchases.

Which Mac does it require?

macOS 14 or later.

Can I edit in rich text?

Not in 1.0. The editor is a Markdown source editor, with Preview and Outline alongside it.

Where can I get the app?

Get it on the United States Mac App Store. This site does not host a direct download.

What should I include in a support email?

The Markloom version, macOS version, what you expected, and the exact error shown. Please do not send confidential documents.

Keep the document on your Mac

Free on the United States Mac App Store. No account. No upload.

Download on the Mac App Store Free · no in-app purchases