20 releases · v1.0.21 current
Roadmap
What is being worked on, what is next, what is being thought about, and what has been decided against. Nothing here has a date on it: a one-person roadmap with dates is a promise broken in public.
Now
The work actually in hand.
New documents saved as plain text
A reader's Mac saved new documents as .txt although Settings > General > Default format said Markdown. Lede never declared the Markdown type to macOS, so the Save sheet borrowed it from whatever other app happened to know it, and where none did it fell back to plain text. 1.0.21 declares it, and it is out now. Waiting to hear whether that ends it on his Mac.
The cursor jumping, or a word vanishing at a space
A reader's cursor sometimes jumped two lines, or a word he had just typed disappeared when he pressed space or a question mark. Lede's own typing, styling and caret paths kept every word in a test that types the way he does, which left macOS's inline predictive text: the grey suggestion the system writes into the word you are typing and takes back at a space. 1.0.21 switches it off in the editor, and it is out now. Waiting to hear whether that ended it.
Next
Nothing at the moment. Lede is small and finished on purpose, and a next thing goes here when it fits a reader's need rather than to fill the space.
Later
Nothing at the moment. A wish goes here when someone asks for it and it fits.
Not planned
Things people reasonably ask for and will not get. This is the section that earns the other three, and it matters here as much as anywhere: an app whose features are all in the download owes you a list of what it has decided against, because you cannot add any of it yourself.
Plugins, or a plugin API
Every feature is in Lede when you download it, which is part of what makes it possible to say the app does not talk to a network and to mean it. A plugin API is a permanent promise about what the app can be, and it would hand that promise to somebody else, which Lede's own feature page refuses for the same reason.
A sync service, or an account
Lede edits the .md file where you keep it. There is no account to make, no server holding your files and no subscription, and a file on your Mac is where it stays. That is the shape of a one-file editor, and it is not going to change.
Anything with AI in it, or a network
Nothing in Lede sends your writing anywhere, because nothing in Lede talks to a network at all. It will open a file and follow it while another app or an AI tool is writing it, but it never reaches out itself. That is a stronger claim than a privacy policy, and it only stays true by refusing this.
Recently shipped
The last three. This list is generated from the release notes, so it cannot fall behind the app.
1.0.21
New documents are saved as Markdown on every Mac, and the system no longer writes predicted words into the word you are typing.
1.0.20
Lede opens again on macOS Sonoma, and numbered lists carry on after sub-bullets.
1.0.19
A fix for a crash when pressing Backspace or Delete next to hidden formatting.
All 20 releases, in full, on What’s new.
This order is not fixed. Something a reader actually needs beats something on the list, and the entries above arrived that way. Lede is free, so the only report worth more than a feature is one that says what is broken: tell me what is missing.