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Kirbon Markdown, beautifully organized.

A native Markdown editor for macOS. Write with focus. Organize your documents. Keep your files under your control.

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Your folder stays a folder.

Kirbon opens any folder of Markdown pages — a Git repository works too. Folders become sections, a README.md becomes the section’s page, and titles come from each page’s first heading.

On disk

  • docs/
  • README.md
  • architecture/
  • README.md
  • overview.md
  • backend-architecture.md
  • processes/
  • release-process.md

In Kirbon

  • Home
  • Architecture
  • Overview
  • Backend Architecture
  • Processes
  • Release Process
The same documentation, as files and as pages.

Made for writing documentation

Pages, sections, links, tables and callouts on top — Markdown files and folders underneath.

  • Native to the Mac

    Built with SwiftUI and AppKit: real menus and toolbar, windows and tabs, Light and Dark appearance, full keyboard control and VoiceOver.

  • Plain Markdown, kept intact

    Kirbon reads and writes ordinary Markdown. Parts of a page you don’t edit are written back exactly as they were, and Kirbon adds no metadata of its own to your pages.

  • Pages, not paths

    Create, rename and move pages and sections from the sidebar. Links to a page are updated when it moves, in one Undo step.

  • Visual, Markdown, Preview

    Edit a page visually, switch to its Markdown source, or read it in Preview — or keep the preview side by side.

  • Focused writing

    Focus Mode leaves just the page. The Outline follows your headings and takes you anywhere in a long document.

  • Ready for real documentation

    Tables with sorting and spreadsheet paste, callouts, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images and attachments stored next to the page.

At home on the keyboard

Every command lives in the menu bar, with a shortcut where it helps.

Quick Open
Go to any page by its title.
Search Documentation
Search titles, headings and text across the whole folder.
Focus Mode
Hide everything except the page you are writing.
Show Outline
See the structure of the page and jump between sections.
Preview Side by Side
Edit on one side, read the result on the other.
Expand Table
Give a wide table the whole window.

Kirbon is in development.

There is no public release yet. The documentation and the changelog will grow together with the app.

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