Press kit

glyphmd

glyphmd is a fast, local-first Markdown editor — Typora-class WYSIWYG, Cursor-style AI completion, sub-250 ms cold start.

Quick facts

Maker
Bärtschi Software, Buchs AG, Switzerland
Price
USD 24.99, one-time, three devices per license, 30-day refund
Trial
30 days, no payment information needed
Platforms
macOS 11+, Windows 10+, Linux (x86_64)
File format
Plain Markdown (.md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd) — no proprietary format
Tech stack
Tauri 2 · Rust · React 18 · TypeScript · CodeMirror 6 · TipTap · markdown-it · Shiki · KaTeX · Mermaid
License (app)
Commercial, distributed via Paddle
Domain
glyphmd.com

What it is, in five points

  • Fast

    Under 250 ms cold start on an M1 Mac, sub-20 MB installer, sub-80 MB idle RAM with one file open. Tauri 2 + Rust on the backend, no Electron tax.

  • Local-first

    Files stay on disk as plain Markdown. No cloud sync, no account, no telemetry, no crash reporting that phones home. License activates once over HTTPS and then works fully offline.

  • Typora-class WYSIWYG

    Inline-rendered Markdown — bold, italic, headings, lists, tables, math, Mermaid — without a mode switch. Focus Mode dims everything but the active paragraph; Typewriter Scrolling keeps the active line vertically centred.

  • Cursor-style AI

    Vault-aware chat with @-mentions for cross-file context, inline ghost-text completion as you type, and an apply-as-edits diff preview. Bring your own key (Anthropic or OpenAI, including OpenAI-compatible endpoints) or run locally with Ollama — your content never touches a glyphmd server.

  • Native distribution

    Signed and notarised .dmg for Intel + Apple Silicon Macs, .msi and .nsis for Windows, .deb and AppImage for Linux. Cryptographically signed in-app updater pulls from an object-storage bucket — no app-store dependency.

Screenshots

High-resolution screenshots and a short demo video are available on request via press@glyphmd.com. The download manifest at latest.json lists every binary with its SHA-256 — use those if you want to verify what you’re running.

Focus Mode in the WYSIWYG editor (request)
Vault graph + backlinks (request)
Source-mode click-to-jump (request)
AI sidebar with vault-aware @-mentions (request)

Comparison anchors (writers want to know)

The honest framing: glyphmd sits between Typora (writing-grade WYSIWYG, no vault tooling, no AI) and Obsidian (vault tooling, Markdown-source-only editor, plugin-driven AI). It picks up Typora’s inline-rendering ergonomics, Obsidian’s vault-awareness, and adds first-class AI without the plugin install dance. It does not aim to replace either for the workflows where they shine — calendar-based PKM (Obsidian) or pure long-form prose (iA Writer).

Timeline

May 2026
Public 0.3 release — Focus Mode, Typewriter Scrolling, paid-feature soft demotion, hosted Paddle checkout, full legal stack

Links

Contact

For interviews, demo access, code-signed pre-release builds, or anything else, press@glyphmd.com. Reply target within one Swiss business day.