markInk # Markdown

markInk — a menu-bar app for macOS

Your reMarkable notes,
as Markdown on your Mac.

markInk keeps a one-way mirror of your tablet in a folder you choose — an Obsidian vault, a Git repo, anywhere on disk. Handwriting is transcribed on your Mac. Typed Type Folio text comes across word for word. Your tablet is only ever read, never written to.

Download markInk from the App Store

7 days free · One-time purchase · Family Sharing included

Platform
macOS 26 or later
Chip
Apple Silicon
Lives in
The menu bar
Direction
Tablet to Mac, one way
Screenshot — a page and its Markdown, side by side
Fig. 01 — A handwritten page and the file it becomes.

# Features

Pen on paper.
Plain text on disk.

Write on the tablet the way you always have. markInk picks the pages up in the background and leaves you a folder of Markdown files you can search, link, and keep for as long as you like.

Screenshot — the menu-bar panel mid-sync
Fig. 02 — The menu-bar panel.
01
Everything stays on your Mac
Your notes are read from the reMarkable cloud and written straight to your disk. Nothing is sent to us, there is no account to make with us, and there is no analytics of any kind.
02
Handwriting turns into text on device
Transcription runs on your own machine. Apple's built-in recognition works out of the box; if you want higher accuracy you can download an optional local model and keep everything offline all the same.
03
Files your notes app already reads
Plain Markdown with front matter, in the folder structure of your tablet. Point markInk at an Obsidian vault and your notes are simply there, ready to link and search.
04
Your tablet is never touched
markInk is a read-only client. It has no code path that can rename, move, or delete anything on your reMarkable. The mirror runs one way, tablet to Mac.
05
Quiet in the menu bar
No Dock icon, no window in your way. markInk syncs on its own schedule, shows you what changed, and otherwise stays out of the day.
06
Typed text stays exact
Pages written with the Type Folio keyboard are extracted character for character, headings and all. There is nothing to transcribe and nothing to double-check.

# Privacy

Your notes never
reach us.

markInk talks to the reMarkable cloud to read your documents, to Hugging Face only if you choose to download the optional transcription model, and to Apple's App Store (StoreKit) for pricing and the one-time purchase. That is the whole list. Your device token is kept in the macOS Keychain, transcription runs on your Mac, and nothing is sent to BeyondSimulations — there is no server of ours to send it to.

Account with us
None
Analytics
None
Transcription
On device
Tablet access
Read only

Read the privacy policy →

Keep your handwriting
where you keep everything else.

Download markInk from the App Store

7 days free · One-time purchase · Family Sharing included

Requires macOS 26 or later on Apple Silicon · a reMarkable account