Alkalye

Beautiful, end-to-end encrypted markdown editor with real-time collaboration and presentation mode.

alkalye.com

Features

• E2E Encrypted — Your documents are encrypted on your device before syncing
• Real-time Collaboration — Share documents and edit together with live cursors
• Presentation Mode — Turn markdown into slideshows with mode: present frontmatter
• Teleprompter Mode — Present with auto-scrolling text
• Offline-First — Works without internet, syncs when back online (PWA)
• Focus Mode — Distraction-free writing environment
• Media Assets — Upload and embed images and videos in your documents
• HTML/CSS Themes — Custom document themes with HTML templates and CSS styling
• PDF Export — Export documents as formatted PDFs
• Time Machine — Browse document history and restore previous versions
• Portable — Settings stored in frontmatter, export as standard .md files anytime

Tech Stack

• Jazz for local-first sync and encryption
• Astro 5 + React 19
• Tanstack Router for routing
• Tailwind CSS 4 + shadcn/ui (base-lyra style)
• CodeMirror 6 editor

Development

Requires Bun. Starting your dev environment is as easy as:

bun install

cp .env.example .env

bunx jazz-sync run # start sync server

bun run dev

CLI

chmod +x /path/to/alkalye/cli.ts
ln -sf /path/to/alkalye/cli.ts ~/.local/bin/alkalye
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
alkalye --help

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please open an issue or PR.

License

MIT

© 2025 Carl Assmann