About Markpad
A lightweight, minimalist Markdown viewer and text editor built for productivity.
Markpad 2.8.4
The Notepad equivalent for Markdown
- By alecdotdev
- Open Source
- Updated Oct 7, 2026
What's new in 2.8.4
What's new in 2.8.4
A small release about tables.
- Wide tables have two settings. In Settings → Preview:
- Wide Tables Can Exceed Max Width, off by default. On, a table wider than the text grows into the side margins, as in 2.8.0–2.8.3. Off, it stays within Max width.
- Scroll Wide Tables, on by default. On, a table that still does not fit keeps its words whole and scrolls sideways, as on GitHub. Off, the whole table is squeezed to fit, breaking words where it has to.
If you liked tables using the margins, turn the first one on.
- npm audit is clean again. Two dependency advisories are fixed: source-map-js, and the copy of KaTeX that Mermaid used.
Download
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System │Chip │Download │
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Windows│Intel / AMD │Markpad_2.8.4_x64-setup.exe │installer
───────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────
│Intel / AMD │Markpad_2.8.4_x64.exe │portable
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│ARM64 │Markpad_2.8.4_arm64-setup.exe │installer
───────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────
│ARM64 │Markpad_2.8.4_arm64.exe │portable
───────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────
macOS │Intel and Apple │Markpad_2.8.4_universal.dmg │one file for both
│Silicon │ │
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Linux │x86-64 │Markpad_2.8.4_amd64.AppImage │portable
───────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────
│x86-64 │Markpad_2.8.4_amd64.deb │Debian, Ubuntu
───────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────
│x86-64 │Markpad-2.8.4-1.x86_64.rpm │Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE
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Note
Windows SmartScreen Notice: Windows executables are not signed with an Authenticode certificate, so SmartScreen shows them as an unrecognized app. …
Technical details
| Publisher | alecdotdev |
|---|---|
| Author | Alec Ames |
| Version | 2.8.4 |
| Release date | 2026-10-07 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Installer type | nullsoft |
| Architecture | x64, arm64 |
| Package ID | alecdotdev.Markpad |
Links & install command
Install Markpad from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):
winget install --id=alecdotdev.Markpad -eOlder versions
- 2.8.3
- 2.8.2
- 2.8.1
- 2.8.0
- 2.7.6
- 2.7.4
- 2.7.3
- 2.7.2
- 2.6.14
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