How-to · export
A real Word document, formatting intact, from the Export menu of the editor you write in. No converter website, nothing to install, and no copy of your document kept anywhere. Below is exactly where the conversion runs on each platform.
DOCX export on Mac · Windows · Linux · one purchase, every platform · $19.99 one-time
Most “markdown to Word” results are web tools that ask you to paste or upload your document to a site you know nothing about. Markd.ly converts from inside the editor, and it tells you where that happens.
On Linux, the app converts on your machine with a converter that ships inside it. On Mac and Windows, Export DOCX sends the document's text over your signed-in connection to our conversion service, which converts it in memory, sends the Word file back and keeps nothing: no stored copy and no log of the text. The request carries the text and the format, not the file's name.
If a document must never leave your computer at all, export it on Linux, use the command-line converter on Windows or Linux (--render in.md --to docx), or export to HTML or PDF, which run on your machine on every desktop.
Open your .md file in Markd.ly.
It is already a plain markdown file on your disk, so there is nothing to import.Choose DOCX from the Export menu.
On a Mac: File → Export Document → Export DOCX. On Windows and Linux: Export (Ctrl+E), then pick DOCX. The same menus also export EPUB, LaTeX and reveal.js slides, and HTML and PDF sit right next to them.Choose where to save the .docx.
Pick a location and filename. Headings, lists, tables, code blocks and emphasis become real Word structure. There is no style or template picker; every export uses the standard DOCX styles.Open it in Word.
It is a normal Word .docx: send it, track-change it, hand it to a client who has never heard of markdown. No watermark.DOCX export is on the Mac, Windows and Linux apps, included in the one-time $19.99 purchase that also unlocks the iPhone, iPad and Android apps. You sign in with a Bravely Account to use Markd.ly. The phone apps do not export to DOCX.
Mac and Windows need a connection to export DOCX
Because the conversion runs on our service, DOCX, EPUB, LaTeX and slides export on Mac and Windows need you to be online and signed in, and they take documents up to 5 MB of text. HTML and PDF export work offline there, and every Linux export works offline.
It is structural conversion, not desktop publishing
Markdown to DOCX converts structure: headings, lists, tables, code, emphasis, images. It does not reproduce a hand-laid, InDesign-style layout. For most reports, proposals and specs that is exactly what you want; for a heavily designed brochure it is not.
No custom template picker
There is no reference document or corporate template option in the app, so do not buy expecting one-click brand-template mapping from the menu.
Desktop only
DOCX export is on Mac, Windows and Linux, not on the phone apps.
A native markdown editor with DOCX, EPUB, LaTeX, slides, HTML and PDF export on Mac, Windows and Linux. One-time $19.99.
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