diff --git a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMarkupToHtml.ts b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMarkupToHtml.ts
index 3017382a90..703c5e5037 100644
--- a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMarkupToHtml.ts
+++ b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMarkupToHtml.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { useCallback, useMemo } from 'react';
 import { ResourceInfos } from './types';
 import markupLanguageUtils from '../../../utils/markupLanguageUtils';
 import Setting from '@joplin/lib/models/Setting';
+import shim from '@joplin/lib/shim';
 
 const { themeStyle } = require('@joplin/lib/theme');
 import Note from '@joplin/lib/models/Note';
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ export interface MarkupToHtmlOptions {
 	useCustomPdfViewer?: boolean;
 	noteId?: string;
 	vendorDir?: string;
+	platformName?: string;
 }
 
 export default function useMarkupToHtml(deps: HookDependencies) {
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ export default function useMarkupToHtml(deps: HookDependencies) {
 		options = {
 			replaceResourceInternalToExternalLinks: false,
 			resourceInfos: {},
+			platformName: shim.platformName(),
 			...options,
 		};
 
diff --git a/packages/renderer/MdToHtml.ts b/packages/renderer/MdToHtml.ts
index b5acd0ef22..327f286c45 100644
--- a/packages/renderer/MdToHtml.ts
+++ b/packages/renderer/MdToHtml.ts
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ export interface RuleOptions {
 	noteId?: string;
 	vendorDir?: string;
 	itemIdToUrl?: ItemIdToUrlHandler;
+
+	platformName?: string;
 }
 
 export default class MdToHtml {
diff --git a/packages/renderer/MdToHtml/rules/mermaid.ts b/packages/renderer/MdToHtml/rules/mermaid.ts
index 59222030be..40af1cff15 100644
--- a/packages/renderer/MdToHtml/rules/mermaid.ts
+++ b/packages/renderer/MdToHtml/rules/mermaid.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+import { RuleOptions } from '../../MdToHtml';
+
 export default {
 
-	assets: function() {
+	assets: function(theme: any) {
 		return [
 			{ name: 'mermaid.min.js' },
 			{ name: 'mermaid_render.js' },
@@ -12,14 +14,27 @@ export default {
 				text: '.mermaid { background-color: white; width: 640px; }',
 				mime: 'text/css',
 			},
+			{
+				inline: true,
+				// Export button in mermaid graph should be shown only on hovering the mermaid graph
+				// ref: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/6101
+				text: `
+				.mermaid-export-graph { visibility: hidden; } 
+				.joplin-editable:hover .mermaid-export-graph { visibility: visible; }
+				.mermaid-export-graph:hover { background-color: ${theme.backgroundColorHover3} !important; }
+				`.trim(),
+				mime: 'text/css',
+			},
 		];
 	},
 
-	plugin: function(markdownIt: any) {
+	plugin: function(markdownIt: any, ruleOptions: RuleOptions) {
 		const defaultRender: Function = markdownIt.renderer.rules.fence || function(tokens: any[], idx: number, options: any, env: any, self: any) {
 			return self.renderToken(tokens, idx, options, env, self);
 		};
 
+		const exportButtonMarkup = isDesktop(ruleOptions.platformName) ? exportGraphButton(ruleOptions) : '';
+
 		markdownIt.renderer.rules.fence = function(tokens: any[], idx: number, options: {}, env: any, self: any) {
 			const token = tokens[idx];
 			if (token.info !== 'mermaid') return defaultRender(tokens, idx, options, env, self);
@@ -31,9 +46,49 @@ export default {
 			return `
 				<div class="joplin-editable">
 					<pre class="joplin-source" data-joplin-language="mermaid" data-joplin-source-open="\`\`\`mermaid&#10;" data-joplin-source-close="&#10;\`\`\`&#10;">${contentHtml}</pre>
+					${exportButtonMarkup}
 					<pre class="mermaid">${contentHtml}</pre>
 				</div>
 			`;
 		};
 	},
 };
+
+const exportGraphButton = (ruleOptions: RuleOptions) => {
+	const theme = ruleOptions.theme;
+	// Clicking on export button manually triggers a right click context menu event
+	const onClickHandler = `
+		const target = arguments[0].target;
+		const button = target.closest("button.mermaid-export-graph");
+		if (!button) return false;
+		const $mermaid_elem = button.nextElementSibling;
+		const rightClickEvent = new PointerEvent("contextmenu", {bubbles: true});
+		rightClickEvent.target = $mermaid_elem;
+		$mermaid_elem.dispatchEvent(rightClickEvent);
+		return false;
+	`.trim();
+	const style = `
+		display: block;	
+		margin-left: auto;
+		border-radius: ${theme.buttonStyle.borderRadius}px;
+		font-size: ${theme.fontSize}px;
+		color: ${theme.color};
+		background: ${theme.buttonStyle.backgroundColor};
+		border: ${theme.buttonStyle.border};
+	`.trim();
+
+	return `<button class="mermaid-export-graph" onclick='${onClickHandler}' style="${style}" alt="Export mermaid graph">${downloadIcon()}</button>`;
+};
+
+const downloadIcon = () => {
+	// https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/505363/download
+	return '<svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g id="SVGRepo_bgCarrier" stroke-width="0"></g><g id="SVGRepo_tracerCarrier" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></g><g id="SVGRepo_iconCarrier"> <path d="M20 15V18C20 19.1046 19.1046 20 18 20H6C4.89543 20 4 19.1046 4 18L4 15M8 11L12 15M12 15L16 11M12 15V3" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"></path></g></svg>';
+};
+
+const isDesktop = (platformName?: string) => {
+	if (!platformName) {
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	return ['darwin', 'linux', 'freebsd', 'win32'].includes(platformName);
+};