Beauty — A Markdown editor for people who notice things.

Stoic.No accountEditor stays freeNo telemetryMarkdown shorthand, resolved as you type[01]Key featuresThink differently, and beautifully.Plain Markdown on your own disk, nothing to sign in to, and the whole dialect when you want it — five things worth knowing first, each argued in detail further down.Your notes are a folderPlain Markdown on your own disk — open it anywhere, back it up, walk away with it.Nothing to sign in toNo account and no telemetry. Open it and write — even when the network is gone.Sealed on the deviceEncrypted where you write it, and entirely at work with the network off.Two devices, one pageSend a link and write together, peer to peer, with no server in the middle.The whole dialectTables, formulas, footnotes — and out again as PDF, HTML, or a zip.[02]FormattingRich text that is still plain text.Bold, italic, code, headings, tables, formulas, diagrams — every kind of thing a note can hold. Press the key you already know or type the mark itself; it resolves the moment it closes, and the file underneath stays Markdown you could read in a terminal.Select a word and press the key you already knowThe shortcuts are the ones your hands already have — ⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘K — and every mark can also be typed. Headings answer to ⌘⌥1 through 6; lists to ⌘⇧7, 8 and 9.Eight kinds of block, one file format## Six heading levelsOne to six hashes, or ⌘⌥1–6, with sizes derived from the body so the page keeps one rhythm.- Lists that nestBulleted, numbered and task lists. Tab indents, Shift-Tab outdents, and a checkbox ticks with one undo behind it.> QuotesOne character at the head of a line and the paragraph steps aside as a pulled quote, the rule beside it drawn rather than typed.```tsCode in 26 languagesTypeScript to Rust, SQL to YAML — fenced, labelled and highlighted. An unknown language keeps its label.| a | b |Tables you can moveAlign cells, add or drop rows and columns, shift a column sideways, set its width — without touching a pipe.$$Formulas, typesetInline $…$ and display $$…$$ rendered by KaTeX as you type. A stray brace never blanks the page.```mermaidDiagrams from textA fence marked mermaid renders as the flowchart or sequence it describes, and stays text in the file./imageImages, filed beside the noteDrop a picture in; it is stored next to your Markdown and referenced by name, so it travels with the file.[03]Multiplayer & sharingLive editing, with nobody in the middle.Send a link and the two of you are on the same page — cursors, selections, the lot. The edits travel directly between your devices, sealed on the way, and no service keeps a copy.markdown.beauty/#collab=8f2c…d41aCopyCopiedYour Macno copy kept anywhereTheir laptopThe link is the keyInvites carry a random room name and a secret that never reaches the rendezvous point. No link, no way in.Edits merge instead of collidingTwo people can type in the same sentence. Work done offline folds back in when the connection returns.One honest limitationThere is no server keeping the note warm, so someone has to have it open for others to join.[04]Type delightfullyThe keyboard already knows what you meant.Two years inside coding tools taught the hands a few habits. This editor keeps them: a key that opens everything, a key that finds any emoji, and characters that quietly become the right ones.Sixteen of the thirty-six replacements->→→<-→←=>→⇒--→—...→…!=→≠>=→≥<=→≤+/-→±(c)→©(tm)→™<3→❤:)→🙂;)→😉:D→😃</3→💔[05]iCloud sync · iPhone, Mac & iPadWritten on the Mac, already on the phone.One library on iPhone and Mac, with iPad next. Beauty Maximus keeps the whole of it current through your own iCloud Drive — notes, images, version history and page settings — with no Beauty account and no Beauty server between them.Type on the MacYour iCloud, not oursThe library is stored in your own iCloud Drive. There is no Beauty account and no Beauty server — Apple's, and yours.Everything the library holdsNotes, folders, images, version history and your page preferences travel together. Day or night stays a choice each device makes.A conflict keeps bothEdit the same note on two devices and the newer version wins the page; the other is kept in version history, marked as the other device's.[06]Type & rhythmSet the page the way you read.One sheet shapes every note: the face the words are set in, how dense the page is, whether it sits on a desk or fills the window, and day or night. Nothing to theme, nothing to configure by hand — four decisions, each one made by looking.Type & rhythmShape the pageTypefaceRhythmSurfaceThemeLiterata — A reading serif with optical text and display cuts.Four faces, each with true italics and true bold. Four rhythms that differ in density, not in measure — every one holds the line between 56 and 65 characters, where reading is easiest. Pick one, or let it show you.[07]Local & portableA folder you can open, copy, and walk away with.No database to trust, no export to remember. Each note is a Markdown file, images sit beside it, and the whole thing is readable with or without this app installed.On the way outMarkdownHTMLPDFWhole library as .zipImages are inlined on the way out, so an exported note is complete wherever it lands.[08]PerformanceFast, light, and hard to break.Every keystroke reaches the page first and your disk after. Everything here follows from that one decision.Sub-millisecond renderingThe character is on the page before anything parses it. Markdown catches up 60 ms later, your file 350 ms after your hands stop.A long file is still a filePast 50,000 characters it commits less often, past 100,000 less often still. Typing is never what slows down.Instant cold startNo splash screen, no update checks, no network calls. The editor opens ready to type before your finger lifts.Tabs, and the session behind themOne tab per note, the last ten you closed a keystroke away, and a desktop that reopens the set you left.Written twice before it countsA save stages a copy, reads it back, keeps the last good file, then swaps it in — with two hundred versions behind it.[09]Attention to detailA thousand decisions you should never notice.Nothing here is a headline feature. Together they are the difference between an editor you tolerate and one you reach for.Not anti-AI. Pro-human. Machines are welcome everywhere else in the day. This is the room where you think — where a sentence gets moved four times because the fourth position is the right one, and nothing offers to finish it for you.Beauty was built without a deadline, an investor, or a growth target: a project made to be fussed over. If it ever learns to help, it will ask first, and it will still be your folder, your files, your call.The editor stays free[10]Use anywhereFree, and yours from the first keystroke.Launching together on iPhone and Mac, with iPad next. The browser version stays available, with no account or sign-up required.ThemeDayNightFollow the systemTypefaceSerifSansMonoRoundedMeasureEditorialAiryFocusedCompactSurfacePageFlat[11]Frequent questionsThe things people actually ask.Yes. The editor and local files stay free, with no account required. Beauty Maximus is an optional subscription for keeping a library current across Apple devices.