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PilcrowMD vs SimpleMarkdown: catalog facts
PilcrowMD	SimpleMarkdown
Free Free with no ads, open source under the GPL 3.0.	Free Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 licence.
Android	Android
Native rendering tuned for reading long documents on a phone Table of contents, in-document search and scroll memory	Simple editor focused on Markdown Rendered preview
Android only Young project with a small community	Android only Basic feature set compared with full note apps
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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