Simple Markdown Viewer

• Quick Look Markdown files
• Render in an app
• Export to PDF

Markdown Viewer is a simple quick look and app extension for Finder. Press Space and you get the document rendered: headings, real bordered tables, task lists with their checkboxes, code blocks, quotes and nested lists. Double-click and it opens in a clean reader with a Rendered and Source toggle and find-in-page search. One click in the app makes it your default handler for .md, and Xcode stops hijacking your READMEs.

The renderer is hand-written, covering the GitHub-flavoured basics people actually use, and the app is strictly read-only.

Requirements

Universal binary, so it runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
• Intel Mac or Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)

Installation

Download the file, unzip it, and copy it into your Applications folder. Open it once and it registers the Quick Look handler itself. Instructions are included with the download.

Apps downloaded here are signed by Apple, so you shouldn't see any Gatekeeper warnings.

Licence

What you may do: install and use the software, at no cost, on any Mac you own or control, for personal or business purposes.

What you may not do: sell, rent, lease, sublicense or otherwise charge anyone for the software; redistribute, repackage, bundle or host it for download (please point people at the official download page instead); or modify, adapt, translate, reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except to the limited extent applicable law expressly permits.

The software is licensed, not sold. All rights not expressly granted above are reserved by the copyright holder, who may offer future or paid versions under different terms.

Privacy

100% on-device. No accounts, no tracking, never connects to the internet, collects no data whatsoever.

Feedback

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