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See Markdown as it’s meant to look.

Extremely fast — opens and renders documents instantly. Universal binary — native on Apple Silicon and Intel. Themes, live reload, table of contents, instant find, Quick Look.

⌘ Get it on the Mac App Store Universal · macOS 15+ · sandboxed · no tracking
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Open a file and it just renders — beautifully, instantly.

“Rendered, not raw.”
# swift
let joy = "GFM tables, math, mermaid"
  • Live reload on save
  • Five themes · dark mode

Live reload Themes + dark Table of contents Find Quick Look Folder → tabs Export PDF

// quick look

Preview without opening the app.

Press Space in Finder and read your Markdown rendered, right there — plus rich thumbnails in every folder.

// live reload

Save, and it’s already updated.

Edit in any editor — the view reloads instantly. No refresh, no flicker.

// themes

Five themes. Real dark mode.

Dracula, Solarized & more — switch live; follows the system appearance.

// navigate

Built for long documents.

Table of contents with scrollspy, instant find with match count, distraction-free reading mode.

// open

A whole folder, in tabs.

Point it at a folder — every Markdown file opens as a native tab.

Everything else

Math KaTeX
Mermaid diagrams
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