Velq is a desktop editor that gets out of your way — live preview, a friendly save history
with no git to learn, and one-file .velq packaging that runs fully offline.
Free & open source · Apache-2.0 · macOS, Windows & Linux
The features of a serious editor, with the quiet of a notebook.
A live preview that formats in place — headings, tables, task lists, footnotes — while your cursor still edits the raw Markdown on the active line.
Every save quietly keeps a version. Browse past versions, see a GitHub-quality diff, and restore — without ever meeting the word “commit”.
Bundle an HTML document with its CSS, JS, images and fonts into a single .velq that runs fully offline. It's just a ZIP — rename it and it opens.
A .velq previews in a zero-capability window: JavaScript runs, but it can't touch your files or the network. Security from the architecture, not a scanner.
The plugin API is CodeMirror itself. KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams ship as references — turn them off and you're left with plain Markdown.
Dark and light, reduced-motion aware, WCAG-AA text, keyboard-driven, comfortable or compact. Cross-platform and offline-first.
.velq file
A document and everything it needs to render — collected, de-duplicated by content hash,
and rewritten to point at local copies. Share one file; it works on a plane. Open it
anywhere: it's a ZIP with a manifest, so even without Velq you can rename it to
.zip and look inside.