Dawn - Markdown

Dawn is the calm, beautiful place to read Markdown on iPhone and iPad. And now, to edit it right where you read.

Your AI assistant answers in Markdown: headings, lists, code, tables. On a phone, that usually shows up as a wall of raw symbols. Open it in Dawn and it becomes a page worth reading: clean margins, real hierarchy, a comfortable line length, and type set the way a good book is.

And it isn't only AI. Your notes, your READMEs, your documents — any .md file reads beautifully here.

EDIT ON THE PAGE
• Double-tap any line to start writing exactly there — no separate editor, no raw symbols
• Bold, italic, headings, lists, checklists, links, quotes, and code from a slim bar above the keyboard
• Add formulas and diagrams, and see them render as you type
• Changes save back to the same file in Files or iCloud, front matter and all
• If a file changed somewhere else, Dawn asks before anything is overwritten

WHAT DAWN RENDERS
• Full CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown
• Syntax-highlighted code blocks that collapse out of the way
• Tables that scroll sideways instead of breaking
• Math, written in LaTeX and set with KaTeX
• Diagrams, drawn from Mermaid
• Task lists, nested quotes, footnotes, and frontmatter — folded into a tidy Properties strip

BUILT FOR READING
• Pinch to size the text exactly how you like it
• Light, dark, and automatic themes
• An outline you can open to jump between headings
• A slim progress line so you always know where you are
• A measured column width that keeps long lines easy on the eyes

ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO
• Your library and the page side by side, with the outline beside them when there's room
• Keyboard shortcuts for editing and formatting
• Open documents in their own windows to read two at once
• On iPhone Duo, the library and the page meet at the fold, and your place is kept as you open, fold, or turn it

YOUR FILES, YOUR WAY
• Open Markdown straight from the Files app or iCloud Drive
• Send a web link from Safari and Dawn fetches and renders it
• Recent documents group themselves by Today, Yesterday, and This Week
• Pin the ones you keep coming back to, and search across names and contents

SHARE BEAUTIFULLY
Select any passage and share it as plain text, as Markdown, or as a polished image card with syntax highlighting — ready for Messages, X, or anywhere else.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no sign-in, no tracking. Your files stay on your device, and nothing you read or write is sent anywhere. Everything renders on-device, so Dawn works with or without a connection.

Requires iOS 17 or later on iPhone, or iPadOS 17 or later on iPad.