Markleaf — Markdown Notes

Markleaf is a quiet, local-first Markdown notes app for Android. Quick to open, calm to write in, and your text stays as plain Markdown — on your device, in your folder.

The point isn't a knowledge-management system. It's a notebook you actually open every day.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Markdown-native editor with live syntax highlighting (10+ languages in fenced code blocks)
• [[Wikilinks]] and automatic backlinks between notes
• #tags written inline in the body, organized in a single tags screen
• Quick Switcher — jump to any note by title (Ctrl+K with a keyboard)
• Find and replace inside a note
• Two-pane layout on tablets, single-pane on phones
• Home-screen widget, share-sheet integration, biometric lock, screenshot protection

PRIVACY BY ARCHITECTURE, NOT BY POLICY

• No INTERNET permission. The app cannot phone home — it has no permission to.
• No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking
• No Markleaf servers; there are none to talk to
• Excluded from Android Auto Backup
• Open source under GNU GPLv3, also on F-Droid

YOUR DATA, YOUR FOLDER

Markleaf doesn't run its own sync. Instead, you pick a folder, and Markleaf mirrors your notes there as ordinary .md files. Any sync tool that watches that folder — Drive, Dropbox, Syncthing, OneDrive, a NAS app — keeps your notes in sync across devices. The mirror is one-way clean Markdown, so your notes round-trip with other Markdown editors, or just cat note.md in a terminal.

If Markleaf disappears tomorrow, your notes are still .md files in a folder you own.

DESIGNED FOR ANDROID TABLETS

• Two-pane note list + editor split
• Tablet typography and line widths tuned for reading distance
• Touch-first toolbar, no hidden gestures

YAML frontmatter, CommonMark / GFM preview, hierarchical tags, attachments, pinned notes — the small things you expect from a serious Markdown editor are in there. The big things you don't expect — accounts, telemetry, push notifications — are not.

If you've been waiting for an Android Markdown editor that respects your time and your data, Markleaf is for you.

Source code: GITHUB_URL
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.markleaf.notes