Markdown writing tools that leave room for writing

Quiline keeps source, preview, and a few useful controls in one local-first browser editor. Every feature below is available without creating an account.

Live Markdown preview with scroll sync

Write Markdown and see its rendered form beside it. Quiline offers split, editor-only, and preview-only views; in split view, scrolling either pane follows the other proportionally.

Quiline in split view with Markdown source on the left and the rendered preview on the right.
Split view: source on the left, rendered preview on the right.

Local autosave

Your drafts save to this browser, not a Quiline server. Quiline stores documents, settings, and periodic local snapshots in IndexedDB, then flushes pending changes when the tab hides or closes.

Offline-first PWA

Once loaded, Quiline can be installed and used without a connection. The service worker retains the editor shell and local documents remain in the browser.

Open and save Markdown files

Use the browser’s file picker when it is available. Quiline opens and saves real files through the File System Access API, with a normal download fallback for browsers without that API.

The File menu in Quiline, listing New document, Open from disk, Save to disk with Ctrl+S, and Copy share link.
The File menu: real files on disk, or a share link that carries the document in its URL fragment.

Writing comfort controls

Choose a light or dark theme and tune the text measure. Line length, line height, and font pairing settings help make a long document easier to read; focus and typewriter modes reduce visual noise while you write.

The Quiline settings panel showing line length, line height, font pairing, heading icon style, and a custom CSS box.
Line length, line height, font pairing, heading icons, and a custom CSS escape hatch.

Outline and document navigation

Use headings as a map of your document. The outline is generated from the Markdown headings and takes you directly to a selected section.

Read the draft aloud

Hear the words instead of re-reading them. The read-aloud panel speaks the current selection, or everything from the cursor to the end of the document, through the speech synthesis already built into your browser. Pick a voice from the list your browser offers, set the pace between 0.5x and 2x, and both choices are remembered for next time.

What it speaks is the rendered prose, not the Markdown source: asterisks, table pipes, and link syntax never reach the voice, and fenced code is skipped because punctuation and identifiers read as noise. Headings and list items are given a sentence ending so they do not run into the following line. Which voices exist depends on your browser and operating system, and some of them synthesise over the network rather than on the device.

The read-aloud panel in Quiline showing Pause and Stop buttons, the status Reading from cursor, a voice selector set to Microsoft Zira, and a rate slider at 0.9x.
Reading from the cursor at 0.9x. The voice list is whatever your browser exposes.

Markdown tables, code, images, and links

Insert common Markdown structures without memorising every character. Quiline includes an editable table grid, image and link insertion, code-block selection, and syntax highlighting for common code languages in preview.

The Insert menu in Quiline listing Table, Image, Link, Code block, and Heading icon with their keyboard shortcuts.
Everything insertable has a shortcut, so the menu is a reminder rather than a requirement.
The insert image dialog in Quiline with File and From URL tabs, a required alt text field, optional width and title fields, and a note that alt text is required.
The image dialog refuses to insert without alt text.

Read-only sharing without a document server

Quiline can encode a document into a share link’s fragment. URL fragments are not transmitted in HTTP requests, so the receiving browser decodes and renders the shared document without Quiline storing it.

What Quiline does not do

Those omissions are deliberate: Quiline is designed for a single writer who wants quick, private Markdown editing.

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