MareArts Gadget
viewsDesktop · Linux, macOS and Windows · 0.14.1
MARK
Read and write Markdown. Highlight a passage, keep a note, and find a word inside a file.
Sign in
The same account as the other Gadget apps
The email on the purchase, and the 16-character signature from that mail, or a licence key. Any active MareArts subscription opens the app.
Highlights
A mark on a passage, kept by the app
The sidebar is the document's own headings. Tables, task lists, footnotes, syntax-highlighted code, LaTeX maths and Mermaid diagrams are drawn from the file. Images are read from the folder beside it, and only from there.
Select a passage and highlight it. The mark stays in the app, not inside the file, and the Highlights panel lists every mark in the open document.
Editing
Source beside the rendered page
Split puts the source beside the rendered page. The editing pane says Editing, and typing is saved about a second after you stop. Ctrl+S saves at once. A file changed outside the app is not overwritten: the app asks which copy to keep.
A plain .txt opens in one pane, not a split. Saving it after formatting creates a .mtx note beside it and leaves the .txt on disk.
Notes
Markdown, or a formatted note
New note asks for a name and whether the file is Markdown or a Note. A note is one pane, with bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, three heading sizes, lists, alignment, fonts, sizes, colours and highlights.
The Notes panel lists what you wrote, grouped by Today, Yesterday and month. Search there matches the text inside a note, not only its name. Earlier versions of the open file sit under that list.
Search
A file name, or a word inside a file
Ctrl+K finds a file by name, and also files that contain the words, with the line under the name. The notes folder is searched whether or not it was added as a folder. Ctrl+F searches only the open document.
Other tools
Rename, filters, print, and the keyboard
| Where | What |
|---|---|
| Rename | Click the name in the header, or the pencil beside a file in Notes. Ending the name with .md or .txt changes the kind of file. Favourites and the recent list follow the new name. |
| Sidebar | Drag the edge to make the list wider or narrower. |
| Favourites | Star a document. It stays in the Favourites panel. |
| Filters | Type to narrow headings, or notes. Recent can be limited to Markdown, CSV, Excel or PDF. |
| Print and PDF | Print uses the system dialog. PDF writes the file you are looking at. |
| Zoom | Ctrl+± and Ctrl+0. Light and dark follow the button in the toolbar. |
| Ctrl+K | Search by name or by words inside a file |
| Ctrl+N | New note |
| Ctrl+E | Show or hide the source |
| Ctrl+Shift+S | Edit the open document |
| Ctrl+H | Highlight the selection |
| Ctrl+1–6 | Contents, Folders, Recent, Favourites, Highlights, Notes |
| Ctrl+\ | Show or hide the sidebar |
| Ctrl+P | Print. Search is Ctrl+K, because Ctrl+P prints. |
Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04) · macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) · Windows 10 & 11
Desktop · Linux, macOS and Windows · 1.36.30
MareArts Backup System
Folders copied to another disk on a schedule. Open the same backup from another PC.
Sign in
The console, not the copies
The email on the purchase, and the 16-character signature from that mail, or a licence key. Any active MareArts subscription opens the app. Scheduled copies keep running while you are signed out.
Overview
Is everything copied?
The first screen says whether the folders are up to date, when the next check runs, and how much room is left on the backup disk. A full disk is named on that line. A run started here shows the live log.
Folders
Sources, one destination, and delete
Add as many source folders as you like. They all copy to one destination. Each row shows the folder, where it lands, and both sizes. Patterns under the list are left out of the copy.
Delete folder removes that folder on the destination, including its earlier copies. The app asks again, and refuses while a run is in progress. Removing a source from the list does not delete those files.
Documents, Desktop and Downloads stay unread until Full Disk Access is on. The app shows a button that opens that setting.
Schedule
Daily, weekly, or monthly
Runs use the operating system's own scheduler. They continue with the window closed. A lapsed subscription closes the console, not the backups. Only one backup runs at a time.
Activity keeps the log of each run. Runs older than the number of days you set are deleted, and at least a few recent ones are always kept. The default is 90 days, and at least five.
Restore
A file from an earlier moment
Pick a folder and a moment, including files you have since changed or deleted. Download one file, or restore it back onto the source.
Another PC
Open this backup from the other computer
The Remote page shows the address of this computer. On the other PC, open that address and sign in with the same MareArts account. The bare address, without the port, is a different service. Sign out other PCs ends those sessions.
On disk
Plain folders, not an archive
Copies are made with rsync into plain folders. There is no archive format, no database and no encryption layer, so the files can be read with the file manager on any machine.
target/
├── current/ the latest copy, mirroring your sources
└── .versions/ one folder per run, holding what changed
├── 2026-04-22/
└── 2026-08-08/
A new file goes into current/. A modified one is updated in current/ and its previous copy moves into that run's version folder. A deleted one leaves current/ and is preserved in the version folder. Only changed files are stored, but each is stored whole.
The copies go to the disk you pointed the app at. Nothing about their contents leaves the computer.
Settings
Test builds stay off
Settings has a switch for test builds. It is off unless you turn it on, and a test build never appears on the download page.
Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04) · macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) · Windows 10 & 11
Desktop · Linux, macOS and Windows · 0.4.24
VIDE
Cut video on a timeline and place clips on a free canvas. Same sign-in as MARK, Backup and Image Viewer.
Sign in
The same account. Nothing extra to buy.
The email on the purchase, and the 16-character signature from that mail, or a licence key. Any active MareArts subscription opens the app.
Projects
A poster for each project
The home screen is a poster grid. New starts an empty project. Open attaches media you already have. Each card shows that project's folder and how much space it uses. Open folder opens the folder in the file manager. The card itself opens the project. Auto, Light and Dark sit in the footer; the moon in the editor does the same switch.
New project
Size and frame rate
Name it, then pick a format. 1080p, 720p, 4K, vertical 9:16 and square are presets. Width, height and frame rate can be typed instead. Create opens an empty timeline at that size.
Import and split
Picture on L, audio on A
Import puts a file in Sources. Drag it onto L1 or L2, or onto the viewer. Split cuts at the playhead, so one clip becomes two. The filmstrip and the waveform are that clip.
Other tools
Speed, record, text, mosaic
| Tool | What |
|---|---|
| Speed | 0.25 to 4. The timeline shows the rate. |
| Record | Screen, webcam, or both. The whole display or a region you drag. The microphone can stay on. Start waits three seconds. The take goes to Sources. |
| Text | A title on a T track. Font, size, colour, alignment, a background and its opacity. Drag the box on the canvas. |
| Mosaic | Pixelate, blur, or a solid box on a video clip. It can follow movement from the playhead. |
| Trim | Drag either edge of a clip. |
| Fit | The whole picture on the canvas, at the video's own ratio. |
| Freeze frame | Hold one moment. |
| Layers | + Layer adds an L or T row. Snap lines clips up. Undo and Redo are in the toolbar. |
| Delete | The confirm names the part and its time. The timeline marks that part until you answer. |
Export
An .mp4 of the timeline you see
Size and frame rate start from the project. Quality is Low, Medium, High or Best. The bar says Opening until the first frame, then Encoding. The file lands in that project's Publish folder unless Browse picks another place. If the computer has a GPU this build can use, decode and encode go through it; otherwise the CPU.
Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04) · macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) · Windows 10 & 11
Desktop · Linux, macOS and Windows · 0.3.1
MareArts Image Viewer
Look through a folder of pictures. Same sign-in as MARK, Backup and VIDE.
A folder
Icons for the pictures in one place
Open a folder and the pictures sit in a grid. Name, date or size sorts them. The slider on the right goes from a list to large icons. Home, Pictures and the other disks stay in the column on the left.
One picture
Select it, then change the file
A click selects the picture and opens it on the right. The star keeps it. Shift-click selects the pictures in between, and Ctrl-click or Command-click adds one. The commands below apply to one picture or to the whole selection.
Favorites
The star stays on this computer
Starred pictures are listed under Favorites. A starred folder is listed there too, above Home. Neither list is copied to another computer.
Several at once
Resize, convert, rename, rotate
Select more than one picture and the bar offers the same four commands. A preview of the new names appears before a rename is written.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Resize | Percent, the long side, the short side, the width, the height, or both. Both sides can stretch, keep the ratio and fill the spare space with a blurred picture, a colour, or nothing, or keep the ratio and crop from a side. The files are replaced. |
| Convert | jpg, png, webp, tif, bmp, gif or ico. The original stays unless you delete it. |
| Rename | # is a number. $1 is a piece of the old name. A date pattern is the other way. The extension stays. Two results that would share a name are refused. |
| Rotate | A quarter turn left or right. |
Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 & 24.04) · macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) · Windows 10 & 11
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
- Opens in a new window.