Marrow v1.8.0

Home: your own board, the way you want it. Plus quicker drawing on phones.

• Home, your own board: the start page (and the Today screen on phones
  and tablets) is now Home, a free-form board that is yours to arrange. Add
  sticky notes, a task overview for any dates you choose (the next few days,
  today, between two dates, no date, with filters for tag, folder, note or
  words), a note or just the part under one heading, lists of notes, a
  greeting, a quick note box, shortcuts, a calendar, today's note, a
  countdown, a clock and Rediscover, plus pictures, links and drawings.
  Every card can be moved, resized and restyled: colour, colour strength,
  text colour, font, text size, alignment, corners, see-through, and looks
  like sticky paper, lined or squared paper, taped on, pinned, folded corner,
  outline or frosted glass. The board itself can have dots, squares, lines,
  paper, corkboard, a colour or your own picture. Start from a ready-made
  template, save your board as a .marrowhome template file to share, and
  import templates others made. Home is the Home.canvas file in your vault,
  so it syncs and looks the same on every device. On phones it shows as a
  list; tap the board button to see it as a board.
• Delete a drawing in one step: a bin button on every drawing (on
  computers it shows when you point at the drawing; on phones and tablets
  it's in the drawing's toolbar). After asking, it takes the drawing out of
  the note and moves its file to Marrow's trash, where you can restore it.
• Every drawing tool fits on phones: the drawing toolbar wraps onto a
  second line instead of hiding tools off the edge, and the drawing keeps
  its full size while you draw. The eraser has its own icon now, so it isn't
  mistaken for delete.

Marrow v1.7.1

Move what you draw on phones and tablets, and the new Marrow logo everywhere.

• The new Marrow logo on phones and tablets: the Android and iPhone/iPad
  apps now use the same wings logo as the computer app, on the home screen,
  the welcome screen and in notifications. On Android 13 and later it also
  follows your themed-icons colour.
• Move what you've drawn on phones and tablets: the new Select and
  move tool (the hand) picks a shape, line, arrow, words or pen stroke.
  Drag it to move it, drag its corner to resize it, and change its colour or
  fill, edit its words or delete it. A shape, line or arrow you've just drawn
  is picked straight away, so you can move it at once. See-through shapes are
  picked by their outline, so what's under them can still be picked.

Marrow v1.7.0

More ways to draw, see-through shapes, and a window you can arrange your way, on computers and tablets.

• More to draw with: 11 shapes (rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle,
  diamond, triangle, hexagon, parallelogram, star, cylinder, speech bubble
  and cloud), plus a straight line, a double-headed arrow and a highlighter.
• See-through shapes: pick No fill to lay a shape over others and
  still see what's under it, or Solid for a filled shape. The usual
  light fill is still there.
• Hide or resize the parts of the window (computers): hide the icon bar,
  the sidebar, the inspector or the status bar, each on its own (buttons in
  the tab bar, Settings › Appearance, or the command palette;
  Ctrl+Shift+[ and Ctrl+Shift+] for the sidebar and inspector). Drag the
  edge of the sidebar or the inspector to make it wider or narrower;
  double-click the edge to put it back. Marrow remembers your choices.
• Tablets: on an Android tablet or in Android desktop mode, drag the
  line beside the sidebar to make it wider or narrower (double-tap to put it
  back). On iPad, wide windows now have a sidebar instead of tabs; hide it
  with its button or ⌘, and drag its edge to resize. Both remember your
  choice.

Marrow v1.6.0

Draw inside your notes, save web pages, get reminded, and see today's tasks on your home screen.

• Drawings inside notes: type /drawing (or use the pencil button)
  and a drawing area opens right where you're writing. Sketch with the pen,
  rectangles, circles, diamonds, arrows and words, in six colours.
  • On phones and tablets, tap a drawing to draw on it with your finger, a
    stylus or Apple Pencil, then tap Done. "Drawing" in the editor bar
    adds a new one.
  • Each drawing is saved as a small canvas next to your notes, so it syncs
    and keeps its history. Any canvas can be shown in a note with
    ![[Name.canvas]].
• Save web pages (web clipper): the new Marrow Clipper browser
  extension (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox) saves the article you're reading,
  or just the part you selected, as a note in Clippings, without the
  menus and ads. Download Marrow_Clipper_1.6.0.zip below; the steps to
  install it are in its README. Marrow must be open on the same computer.
• Share a link to Marrow on Android or iPhone to save the whole page in
  Clippings. On iPhone and iPad, "Add to Marrow" is now in the share sheet,
  for pages, words and photos.
• Reminders on tasks: tap the alarm on a task (or "Remind me" while
  writing) and pick in an hour, this evening, tomorrow morning, or any date
  and time. The time is kept in the note as ⏰ 2026-11-03 09:00, so it
  syncs like everything else. Notifications have Done and Snooze
  10 min buttons.
  • On Android, iPhone and iPad they arrive even when Marrow is closed.
  • On computers they arrive while Marrow runs. It can keep running in the
    tray and start when you sign in (Settings › Editor › "Keep running for
    reminders"); missed reminders from the last day ring when it opens.
• Home-screen widget (Android, iPhone and iPad): what's due today and
  overdue, with a tick box for each task and a button to add one. Tap a task
  to open its note.

Marrow v1.4.0

Marrow comes to Android, and syncs through the cloud storage you already have.

• Marrow for Android: download Marrow_1.4.0_android.apk below and open it on your phone or tablet (allow "Install unknown apps" when Android asks). Today and daily notes, the calendar, tasks, search, quick capture with a photo or by speaking, locked notes, the graph, canvases, version history, Ask your notes, English or Bangla.
• Desktop layout on Android tablets: in Android's desktop mode, on an external screen or on a tablet in landscape, a sidebar shows your folders and notes beside the page. Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl K search, Ctrl D today, Ctrl N new note, Ctrl \ sidebar. Right-click works like a long press.
• Sync with Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox, on computers and phones: sign in once, pick the vault's folder, and your notes stay the same everywhere, free with the storage you already have. Notes stay plain Markdown files in My Drive › Marrow or Apps › Marrow, and Marrow can't see anything else in your account. End-to-end encryption works with them too.
• iPhone and iPad: the app is built and tested, with iCloud sync, and comes to the App Store and TestFlight next.

Downloads: Windows (.exe or .msi, signed), macOS (.dmg), Linux (.AppImage, .deb, .rpm) and Android (.apk).

Marrow v1.3.0

A new look that is easier to read and to find your way around.

• New type: the interface uses Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, made by the
  Braille Institute so letters like I, l and 1 can't be mistaken for each
  other. Notes use Literata, made for long reading on screens. Choose
  Book, Clean or Classic (the old Garamond) in Settings → Appearance →
  Note text.
• Every place has a name: the side bar shows a name under each icon
  (on phones too). Today's note has its own sun icon, so it no longer looks
  like the calendar.
• Help: a new Help button explains every part of Marrow in one plain
  sentence each, with the keys worth knowing.
• Start page: opens with today's date, your notes and what to do next,
  with a short "Getting started" while a vault is new.
• Nothing overlaps any more: the note header on phones, the side panel
  on smaller laptop screens (it now opens over the note only when asked),
  tab names on phones, and settings whose choices are wide.
• Calmer, clearer screens: softer colours with the note as the
  brightest thing, rounded controls, plain sentence-case labels, a title
  that no longer repeats the note's first heading, and settings in plain
  words (Small, Medium, Large instead of pixel sizes).

Downloads: Windows (.exe or .msi, signed), macOS (.dmg, Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux (.deb, .rpm, AppImage). The macOS app isn't notarized yet, so the first time macOS may block it: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.

Marrow v1.2.0

Marrow 1.2.0: a time machine for your notes, old notes that come back to you, a step-by-step move from Notion and Evernote, and Marrow in Bangla.

• Time machine: drag a slider to see a note, or the whole vault, as it
  was on any past date. See what changed since, restore an old version, or
  bring back a note that was deleted. Built on the versions Marrow already
  keeps while you write.

• Notes come back to you: the start screen shows a note you haven't
  opened in a long time and the same day in earlier years. From Friday to
  Sunday it offers a five-minute weekly review: what you wrote, what's
  still open, loose ends, and a few questions, saved as a note if you like.
  Turn it off in Settings → Editor.

• Move from Notion or Evernote, step by step: exactly how to export,
  the export found in Downloads automatically (or dropped on the window),
  then everything brought in with its links, pictures and databases.

• Bangla:

  • The whole interface in Bangla (Settings → Appearance → Interface
    language). Your notes are never changed.
  • Search that understands Bangla spelling: ি/ী, ু/ূ, ন/ণ, শ/ষ/স, জ/য,
    ং/ঙ, ড়/র and ৎ/ত match each other, and Bangla digits match 0-9.
  • A Bengali font that matches Marrow's type, in notes and in PDF exports.

• Sync with your own server: Nextcloud, ownCloud, Synology, pCloud, Koofr
  and other WebDAV servers, on any device. Same safe two-way sync as cloud
  folders: notes edited in two places are merged, deletions go to the trash,
  and sync pauses rather than empty a vault. Being offline is fine; sync
  resumes by itself.

• End-to-end encrypted sync: optional, for cloud folders and servers.
  Notes and their names are encrypted before they leave the device, so the
  cloud stores only scrambled data. Other devices join with the passphrase.

• Ask your notes: an Ask button in the sidebar and on the start screen,
  one-click private setup with Ollama on this computer, and a clear note of
  where each question goes. Also fixes the Ask panel opening off-screen.

• Quick capture with voice and photos: record a voice note or take a
  photo straight into today's note. With an OpenAI or Groq key in
  Settings → AI, voice notes are also turned into text; the recording is
  always kept. Recordings play right inside the note. On phones and
  tablets, a round + button opens Quick capture from anywhere.

• Mobile groundwork: Marrow builds for Android and iOS, with layouts for
  phones and tablets.

Downloads: Windows (.exe or .msi, signed), macOS (.dmg, Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux (.deb, .rpm, AppImage). The macOS app isn't notarized yet, so the first time macOS may block it: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.

Marrow v1.1.0

Marrow 1.1 adds a calendar and keeps years of daily notes easy to find.

New

• Calendar: a new view in the sidebar (the calendar icon with dots). See a month of daily notes and the days tasks are due, open or start any day's note in one click, or click the month name to see the whole year at a glance.
• On this day: notes from the same date in earlier years, with the first line of each.
• Daily notes by year and month: new daily notes go into Daily/2026/10 October/2026-10-24.md. The file name stays the date, so [[2026-10-24]] links never break.
• Already have daily notes in one folder? They keep working. The calendar and Settings → Vault offer to move them into year and month folders in one click, with every link kept. Prefer one folder? Choose One folder in Settings → Vault.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11	Marrow_1.1.0_x64-setup.exe (recommended) or .msi
macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Marrow_1.1.0_universal.dmg
Fedora 40+, openSUSE	Marrow-1.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm, install with sudo dnf install ./Marrow-1.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Mint	Marrow_1.1.0_amd64.deb, install with sudo apt install ./Marrow_1.1.0_amd64.deb
Other Linux	Marrow_1.1.0_amd64.AppImage

Installing

• Windows: code-signed, so Windows shows the verified publisher. SmartScreen may still ask once while the certificate is new: click More info → Run anyway.
• macOS: not signed by Apple yet. If macOS says Marrow "can't be opened", right-click Marrow in Applications → Open, or run xattr -cr /Applications/Marrow.app.

Marrow is free and open source under the MIT license. Full details in CHANGELOG.md. Found a problem? Open an issue.

Marrow v1.0.0

Marrow 1.0 is here: a fast, local-first notes app. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you own. No account, no subscription, and it works offline.

Marrow is free and open source under the MIT license.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11	Marrow_1.0.0_x64-setup.exe (recommended) or .msi
macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Marrow_1.0.0_universal.dmg
Fedora 40+, openSUSE	Marrow-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm, install with sudo dnf install ./Marrow-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Mint	Marrow_1.0.0_amd64.deb, install with sudo apt install ./Marrow_1.0.0_amd64.deb
Other Linux	Marrow_1.0.0_amd64.AppImage

Installing

• Windows: the app and installers are code-signed, so Windows shows the verified publisher. Because the certificate is new, SmartScreen may still ask once: click More info → Run anyway.
• macOS: this release isn't signed by Apple yet. If macOS says Marrow "can't be opened" or is "damaged", right-click Marrow in Applications → Open, or run xattr -cr /Applications/Marrow.app.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/10 isn't supported yet: it lacks the WebKitGTK 4.1 web engine Marrow needs.

What's in 1.0

• Write and link: live preview Markdown, [[links]] that update when you rename, backlinks, tags, tasks and daily notes.
• See and organise: graph, canvas boards, databases (table, board, calendar), slides, and publishing notes as a website.
• Safe: crash-safe saving (0 damaged notes in 200 forced crashes), unsaved typing kept as a draft, interrupted renames finished on next open.
• Private: lock a note or folder and it's encrypted on disk. Marrow sends nothing anywhere unless you connect an AI with your own key.
• Fast: opens 10,000 notes in about half a second; saves in milliseconds.

Full details in CHANGELOG.md.

Found a problem? Open an issue with what you did, what happened, and the log (Settings → About → Show the log). It contains no note text.

Marrow v0.9.0-beta.2

Second beta of Marrow, a fast, local-first notes app. Your notes stay plain Markdown files in a folder you own.

This beta fixes four rare data-safety problems found in a third code review: canvas edits made during a save, the closing warning for canvases, moving notes into a locked folder, and renaming a locked folder during a crash. Like the first beta, it has no new features. It's about never losing a note, keeping locked notes private and staying fast. See CHANGELOG.md for the full list.

Download

System	File
Windows 10/11	Marrow_0.9.0_x64-setup.exe (recommended) or .msi
macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel)	Marrow_0.9.0_universal.dmg
Fedora 40+, openSUSE	Marrow-0.9.0-1.x86_64.rpm, install with sudo dnf install ./Marrow-0.9.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Mint	Marrow_0.9.0_amd64.deb, install with sudo apt install ./Marrow_0.9.0_amd64.deb
Other Linux	Marrow_0.9.0_amd64.AppImage

Before you install: this beta is unsigned

• Windows may show "Windows protected your PC". Click More info → Run anyway.
• macOS may say the app "can't be opened" or is "damaged". Right-click Marrow in Applications → Open, or run xattr -cr /Applications/Marrow.app.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/10 isn't supported yet: it lacks the WebKitGTK 4.1 web engine Marrow needs. A Flatpak is planned.

Highlights

• Crash-safe saving: 0 damaged notes in 200 forced crashes on Windows, macOS and Linux each.
• Unsaved typing is kept as a draft at least every 5 seconds and offered back after a crash.
• Locked notes and folders are encrypted from the first byte, including notes created, imported or moved into them.
• Databases open fast (2,000 rows in about 0.04 s) and the window stays responsive.
• Settings → About → Show the log gives you a diagnostic log (no note text) to attach to bug reports.

Found a problem? Open an issue with what you did, what happened, and the log.