ReboundMan

Windows desktop · free

Markdown that shows you everything.

WordMD puts formatted text, raw Markdown, and your YAML front matter in front of you at the same time. No mode switching to find out what the file actually says.

Download for Windows Source on GitHub ↗

Why I built it

I write in Markdown all day: specs, notes, posts, the front matter that drives half my tooling. I could not find an editor that showed me all three of the things I care about at once. Every one of them made me pick.

The pretty editors hide the syntax, so I could not tell whether a stray character was breaking a list. The plain text editors show the syntax and nothing else, so I was reading raw markup to check how a document would land. And nearly all of them treated YAML front matter as either invisible or as body text to be mangled, which is a problem when the front matter is the part your automation reads.

So I built the thing I wanted. WordMD shows formatted output and raw source side by side, keeps them in sync as you scroll, and treats front matter as a first-class part of the document you can open and edit without leaving the app.

It is free. I use it every day, which is the best endorsement I can offer.

What it does

  • Three views, one document. Formatted, source, or split. Scrolling one pane moves the other to the matching place, anchored to lines rather than a rough percentage.
  • Front matter you can actually edit. A collapsible pane at the top shows your YAML field count, expands to show the block, and edits in place. Save changes exactly the lines you touched and nothing else.
  • Word-like editing. A real toolbar, keyboard shortcuts you already know, tabs for multiple files, and light, dark, and system themes.
  • It respects your files. Original bytes pass through untouched when you have not edited, line endings and the UTF-8 BOM are preserved, and every dirty tab is snapshotted for crash recovery.
  • Printing that matches what you see. Print the current view, the formatted output, or the raw source. The print dialog doubles as save-to-PDF.
  • Nothing phones home. No account, no cloud, no telemetry unless you turn it on. Settings and recovery files stay in your own AppData.

Get it

Download the latest installer ↗

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The installer is a signed .exe and does not need admin rights. Every release publishes a SHA-256 file next to the installer if you want to check it. Release notes and older versions live on the same page.

Prefer to build it yourself? The repo has the full source, and spec/DEPLOY.md documents the build. It is .NET 8 and WinUI 3 with a WebView2 editing surface.

If it earns its keep

WordMD is free and stays free. I am not building a subscription business out of it. But if it saves you time and you feel like saying thanks, there is a tip jar, and it goes to the person who actually wrote the thing.

Buy me a frosty beverage ↗

Handled by Stripe. Defaults to $20; the checkout page lets you change that to whatever feels right.

Tell me what is wrong with it

Product ideas, bugs, or just a comment. I read all of it, and the roadmap is mostly made of things people asked for.

Heads up: this opens a prefilled issue on GitHub, which is a public page. Do not paste anything private, and you get to review it before you press submit over there. No GitHub account? Email billing@reboundman.com instead and it reaches the same person.