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Most Android text editors are a phone app that happens to open on a tablet. Inkiostro was drawn the other way round: files, editor and live preview side by side on a big screen, and a phone layout that folds down from it. Your documents stay ordinary .md files in a folder you choose — no database, no account, nothing to export if you ever leave.
Three panes on a tablet, two on a foldable, one on a phone — the same app deciding what fits, not three different products.
The file list, the editor and the live preview at the same time, with draggable dividers. Attach a keyboard and the shortcuts are the ones you already know.
The layout follows the hinge. Open the device and the preview appears beside the text instead of replacing it; close it and the editor takes the whole page back.
Resizable windows, right-click menus, hover states and a real pointer cursor. Nothing is locked to one orientation and nothing refuses to be resized.
One pane at a time, the formatting island floating above the keyboard, and the preview a tap away. The small screen is the folded-down version, not the starting point.
You pick a folder on the first run — internal storage, an SD card, a USB drive, whatever your file manager can reach. Inkiostro writes .md files into it and nothing else: no library to import into, no proprietary container, no copy of your work on a server you don't own. Open the same folder in another editor tomorrow and everything is there, because it never stopped being there.
The preview renders as you type, in the same engine the Mac and iPhone versions use — so a document composed on one of the three looks the same on the other two. Maths and diagrams are not add-ons: LaTeX and Mermaid render live and survive the export as text, not as pictures of text.
The editor is native Android text, not a web view pretending to be one: typing in a long document doesn't stutter and the highlighting repaints only the lines that changed. Lists continue themselves, tables keep their columns aligned as you Tab through them, and the formatting bar sits above the keyboard where your thumb already is.
Charging for the export of a document you already wrote is a way of holding it hostage, so PDF export is free: your preview theme, your reading font, your margins, a title, a header, a footer and page numbers. Without Pro the pages carry a small credit line at the bottom — everything else is identical. HTML and EPUB are Pro; they are what you use to publish, not to keep a copy.
Every heading in a column beside the text, filterable, with the section you're in highlighted. Tap to jump.
Several documents open at once on a big screen, the way you already work when you're comparing two drafts.
One shortcut, then type the name of what you want. Every command in the app, without hunting through menus.
Automatic snapshots with a word-by-word diff, and restore of a single block instead of the whole file.
Dim everything but the sentence you're in, and keep the line you're writing at the height you're looking at.
Five free and 24 with Pro, ported from the Mac app — plus 20 reading fonts bundled with the app, all free.
Words, characters, reading time, and a target that counts only what you actually typed today.
The whole syntax in a panel beside the text, so you never have to leave the document to look something up.
English, Italian, Spanish, German and French — the app and this page, not a machine translation of one.
Everything you need to write is free and has no time limit. Inkiostro Pro is a single purchase that unlocks the five things below, and a 7-day trial that starts when you ask for it — no card, no account, nothing to cancel.
The free version has no time limit, no document cap and no watermark. This is the whole list.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Clean editor & live preview | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your documents as plain .md files in your own folder | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unlimited documents & folders, and file import | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF export with margins, header, footer & page numbers | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF pages without the credit line | — | ✓ |
| 11 preview styles | ✓ | ✓ |
| LaTeX math & Mermaid diagrams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Syntax highlighting in code blocks | ✓ | ✓ |
| 20 reading fonts, bundled with the app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Outline, tabs & command palette | ✓ | ✓ |
| Find & replace, statistics, daily writing goal | ✓ | ✓ |
| Markdown cheat sheet | ✓ | ✓ |
| Available in 5 languages | ✓ | ✓ |
| App themes | 5 of 29 | ✓ |
| External folders | 1 | ✓ |
| Version history, with a word-by-word diff | — | ✓ |
| Focus & typewriter mode | — | ✓ |
| HTML & EPUB export | — | ✓ |
Four editors people actually use on Android, with the cases where they are the better buy said out loud.
Inkiostro started on Apple platforms and the Android app is a native port, not a wrapper: same Markdown, same preview engine, same export. What it doesn't have yet is sync — the Apple versions use iCloud, and on Android your documents live in your folder. Google Drive is planned for a later version. Until then, a .md file in a shared folder crosses over just fine, because it's only ever a file.
See the iPhone, iPad & Mac version →Unlimited documents, live preview, LaTeX, Mermaid and PDF export cost nothing and expire never. Pro is one purchase, whenever you decide it's worth it.
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