Quire treats a directory of Markdown as one working document — a tree on the left, tabs across the top, and every file written straight back to disk as plain text. Nothing is imported. Nothing is locked in a database.
Everything Quire does is in service of the text in front of you.
Point Quire at a directory and the whole thing opens: a file tree down the left, tabs across the top, and your text in the middle. Reopen it later and the same tabs come back in the same order.
See the rendered page beside the text as you type — headings, tables, task lists, blockquotes, code blocks with syntax highlighting, and images loaded from the folder itself.
Find a phrase across every Markdown file under the folder, not just the one you have open. Results group by file with the matching line in place, so you see the context before you jump.
Copy a screenshot and paste it into the page. Quire files the image in an assets folder beside your document and links it with a relative path, so the folder stays portable. Dragging one in does the same.
Your headings appear as ticks beside the text, sized by level. Click one to jump straight to that section. Focus mode dims every line but the one you are writing.
Files are saved atomically, so a crash mid-save cannot truncate one. If another program rewrites a file while you have it open, the save stops and shows you both versions instead of overwriting your work.
Four themes, four writing faces, and a line width and type size you choose. Typewriter mode keeps the line you are writing near the middle of the window instead of the bottom of the screen.
Send a document out as a self-contained HTML file with its styling included, or as a copy of the plain Markdown, saved wherever you choose.
Three steps, and none of them involve importing anything.
Choose any directory that already holds your Markdown. Quire reads it where it sits and never moves or copies a file.
Open files from the tree into tabs, toggle the preview when you want to check the shape of a page, and search the folder when you need to find something.
Every save writes plain Markdown back to the same path. Your folder stays readable by every other editor you own.
No. Quire has no account system, no sync and no server. Your documents are read from and written to your own disk, and the app works with the network switched off entirely.
No. There is nothing to register and no email address to give. Install it and open a folder.
Only a small preferences file in your user folder, holding your settings, the list of folders you have opened, and which tabs were open. Your Markdown files themselves are never copied into it.
Never. Files stay plain .md exactly where you left them.
Quire imports nothing, converts nothing, and adds no metadata of its own.
Quire notices. If Git, a sync client or another editor rewrites a file while it is open, your save is stopped and both versions are shown side by side so you decide which one survives. It never overwrites silently.
Into an assets folder beside the document you pasted into,
named after that document. The link written into your Markdown is
relative, so moving or copying the folder keeps every image working.
It goes to the Recycle Bin, never straight to nothing, so a mis-click is always recoverable from Windows itself.
Markdown files — .md, .markdown,
.mdown, .mkd and .mdx. Images in
the folder are shown in the preview when your Markdown references them.
English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish and Italian. Quire follows your system language until you choose one yourself.
Windows 10 version 17763 or later, on a 64-bit machine. There is nothing else to install.