Write in Markdown. (And then some.)

For many people, your editor is the center of an email tool. Our editor is best-in-class, allowing you to write WYSIWYG with rich text – and in Markdown, the lightning-fast language that has become standard throughout the industry.

While there are some additional features, they are tucked away nicely, allowing me to access them if I want to, without making the interface cluttered. Most importantly, everything I needed was right there in the main UI. I could log in, write a newsletter, check it, send a draft to a friend for review, and then hit send.

Tim van Damme

What’s Markdown?

Markdown is a simple way of writing that gives you all of the richness of a full-fledged email editor, directly in your document. For example, instead of clicking a passage and bolding it, you add **asterisks** to your text, and Buttondown will automatically bold the text for you.

Markdown was created by John Gruber in 2004, and has quickly become widespread thanks to its simple goal:

The overriding design goal is to make [Markdown] as readable as possible… a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.

If you’re new to Markdown, you can use this tutorial to get up to speed.

For more on how you can use Markdown, check out our Markdown help document.

Markdown, but super-charged

Buttondown has support for your favorite Markdown extensions (tables, footnotes), as well as a couple just for newsletters.

Preview your writing easily

Buttondown's drafting mode makes it easy for you to view your compiled Markdown as you write.

Embed gifs and more

Getting dynamic and external content into emails is a pain. Buttondown's rendering extensions make it easy.

Automatic link checking

Buttondown makes sure you don't accidentally send out any broken links or typos, too.