Today we’re excited to announce that Markdown support has been added to the latest update of Simplenote for iOS.
To enable Markdown for a note, just tap on the ‘Markdown’ button in the note info panel. You can then swipe on the note editor to view the Markdown preview. Once you’ve enabled Markdown for a note, all new notes you create in the future will have it enabled by default. We hope you enjoy this handy new feature!
We’ve also received a great response to our recent open sourcing of the apps. Thanks to everyone who has been submitting issues and pull requests on GitHub.
Happy noting!
– The Simplenote Team
Simplenote 
I’m really excited about this. The Markdown view looks great. I would love for it to be the default. All of my notes marked as Markdown had the setting there correctly. Thanks for all the hard work. 🙂 Looking forward to the Mac update.
Looking forward to the Mac update too!
Very much agree with you Analogue.
Which flavor of markdown is supported?
We use the hoedown library to do our Markdown processing, which mostly conforms to the Markdown v1.0.0 and v1.0.3 test suites and the CommonMark spec. We also enable extensions for automatically linkifying URLs, fenced code blocks, and footnotes.
Collaboration, Publish, and Markdown do not work with Ipad version.
Yes, we are working on a fix and will release it ASAP. A workaround is to put the app in a small multi-window view and then the buttons will work. The Markdown button does work, it’s just hard to see that it is highlighted, which we are also fixing.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202070
Dan: Thanks but…..this won’t fly on IPAD2
Any other suggestions????
You can also sign in to the web app to share and collaborate a note: https://app.simplenote.com
We will get the fix submitted to Apple next week.
I too cannot get these to work on iPad 3rd gen, nor does “Print” do anything. Glad to hear a fix is in the works 🙂
Looks like it doesn’t work yet on iPad mini 1 on iOS7
Love having Markdown! The Markdown horizontal rule is basically invisible using the light background scheme on iPad Air. Looks OK on the dark background but perhaps could use another pixel for a stronger line.
Love Simplenote and very happy for the addition of Markdown to offer additional formatting and media options. But if you don’t make the formatted (or “Preview mode ) view the default view, what’s the point of having it? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE either make the Preview view the default or at least give your users to option to turn that on.