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About Markdown Monk

Markdown Monk turns Markdown into PDF, DOCX, HTML and plain text — and back again — without uploading a single character to a server. This page explains who runs it, how it works, and where it falls short.

Who runs this site

Markdown Monk is published and operated by Marketing17. It is a small, independently funded project — not a venture-backed product and not a content network. One team maintains the converter, writes the guides, and answers the mail.

You can reach us at zoltan.tamas@marketing17.co, or through the contact page.

Why nothing you type ever leaves your browser

Most online converters work the same way: you upload a file, a server processes it, and you download the result. That model asks you to trust a privacy policy with a document you may not be able to share — a contract, a medical note, an unsigned offer letter, a résumé naming your current employer.

Markdown Monk removes the need for that trust rather than asking for it. There is no upload step because there is no server to upload to. Every conversion runs as JavaScript inside your own tab.

Making that work meant writing the conversion engine from scratch. It is a single 549-line file with no third-party libraries, containing:

  • a Markdown parser — headings, emphasis, strikethrough, fenced code blocks, blockquotes, nested lists, tables, images and links
  • an HTML-to-Markdown converter for the reverse direction
  • a Word (OOXML) writer that emits real Word heading styles and real list numbering, not bold text pretending to be headings
  • a ZIP packer, because a .docx file is a ZIP archive and we needed to build one without pulling in a dependency

You can verify all of this yourself: open your browser's network tab and convert a document. Nothing is sent. The tool works with your connection switched off.

What's here

Six conversion routes (Markdown to PDF, DOCX, HTML and plain text; HTML and plain text back to Markdown), a set of focused tools for editing, previewing, formatting and generating tables, 33 role-specific résumé templates, and a library of Markdown guides.

What it doesn't do

Being straight about the limits is more useful than overselling:

  • PDF export uses your browser's print engine. Fonts, margins and page breaks follow your browser's print settings, so output varies between Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Fine-grained margin and font control is not built yet.
  • The Markdown parser covers common syntax, not every extension. Footnotes, definition lists, math and diagram blocks are not supported.
  • Complex HTML does not always survive the round trip. HTML-to-Markdown handles clean, semantic markup well; heavily nested layout markup less so.
  • Nothing is saved. Because there is no server and no account, closing the tab discards your work. Download before you leave.

How it's paid for

The tool is free with no account, no usage cap and no paid tier. Running costs are covered by advertising. Ads are kept out of the editor itself and placed only where they do not interrupt the work. You can decline advertising cookies in the consent banner and the converter continues to function identically — see our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Corrections

If a guide is wrong, a conversion is broken, or a résumé template gives bad advice for your field, tell us and we will fix it. Reports that come with a sample that reproduces the problem get fixed fastest.