Drop any supported file onto the MarkyMarkdown menu bar icon or the drop window.
The bundled MarkItDown engine runs 100% locally — no internet, no uploads, no waiting.
A .md file lands right next to your original. That's it.
After dropping a file, MarkyMarkdown shows a cheerful success message and lets you reveal the Markdown output right in Finder.
Python runtime and all dependencies are bundled. Users install nothing extra — just drag the app into Applications.
Lives quietly in your menu bar. Drop files directly onto the icon without opening any window.
Every successful conversion gets a randomised cheerful message. Milestone achievements at 10, 50, and 100 conversions.
Converting the same file twice? MarkyMarkdown auto-appends (1), (2), … so you never overwrite existing output.
PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, plain text, images — if MarkItDown can read it, MarkyMarkdown converts it.
Fully open source on GitHub. Inspect the code, contribute, or fork — no lock-in, no surprises.
Markdown is a lightweight plain-text formatting syntax created in 2004 by John Gruber (with contributions from Aaron Swartz). The idea was simple but powerful: let you write using easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text that can then be converted into structurally valid HTML.
A decade later, Markdown has become the universal language of technical writing — used in GitHub READMEs, documentation sites, note-taking apps, static-site generators, and AI prompt contexts worldwide.
MarkyMarkdown brings that same simplicity to any file format. Drop in a PDF, Word doc, or PowerPoint deck and get back clean, portable Markdown that works everywhere — no reformatting, no copy-pasting, no fuss.
Free, open source, and entirely on your Mac.
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