Markdrop
Markdrop turns web pages, PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, e-books and YouTube videos into clean Markdown. Markdown is plain text with simple marks for headings, lists, links and tables, so it is easy to read, edit, search and paste into notes or wikis.
Markdrop is a family of six tools that share one conversion engine, Microsoft's open-source MarkItDown, and produce the same kind of output.
The tools
| Tool | What it is | Use it to |
|---|---|---|
| Markdrop Clipper | Browser extension for Chrome and Firefox | Save a web page, a selection or a YouTube transcript as Markdown. |
| Markdrop Studio | Desktop app for Linux | Convert many files at once by dragging them in, without a network. |
| Markdrop for Android | Phone app | Convert files, photos and links on your phone, or share them to Markdrop from other apps. |
| Markdrop Web | Self-hosted web page and REST API | Run your own converter on a server and call it from scripts. |
| Markdrop Bot | Telegram bot you host yourself | Send a file or link in Telegram and get a .md file back. |
| markdrop-mcp | MCP connector | Let an MCP client, such as Claude Desktop or Claude Code, convert files and links for you. |
Not sure where to start? Install the browser extension and follow the beginner guide.
What the output looks like
Every tool writes the same style of Markdown: # headings, tables as GitHub-style pipe tables, checkboxes as [x], and no javascript: links. At the top of the file there is a short front-matter block, a few lines between --- marks that record where the text came from:
---
title: Markdown - Wikipedia
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
converted: 2026-07-20
generator: dhiva-labs/markdrop-clipper
---
# Markdown
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- Markdrop Clipper converts pages inside your browser.
- Markdrop Studio and the Android app convert on your own device, with the engine built in.
- Markdrop Web, the bot and markdrop-mcp run on computers you control.
Fetching a web page or a YouTube transcript does contact that website, as opening it in a browser would.
Releases
The current suite release is v0.1.1. Each tool keeps its own version number:
| Tool | Version in v0.1.1 |
|---|---|
| Markdrop Clipper | 0.1.1 |
| Markdrop Studio | 0.1.2 |
| Markdrop for Android | 0.1.0 |
| markdrop-mcp | 0.1.0 |
| Markdrop Web and Markdrop Bot | Run from the source code of the release |
Licence and source
Markdrop is open source under the MIT licence. The source code and the issue tracker are on GitHub.