Guides & comparisons
Reading Markdown on a Mac — how-to guides and honest comparisons.
Guides
- Best Markdown Viewer for Mac (2026)An honest comparison of the macOS apps that render Markdown — price, Quick Look, Mermaid, subscription.
- Preview Markdown in Finder with Quick LookStep-by-step: install and enable a Quick Look extension, get rendered previews and thumbnails — and fix raw-text Quick Look.
- Reading AI Markdown output on a MacRead Claude / Cursor / ChatGPT Markdown — Mermaid, math, code — rendered, with Quick Look and live reload.
- Why I built Markdown Better ViewA solo dev build story: reading the pile of Markdown that AI tools produce, with Quick Look and live reload.
Comparisons
- vs MarkedReader with Quick Look vs a writer’s previewer — one-time $9.99 vs subscription.
- vs MacMD ViewerSame native viewer + Quick Look, half the price.
- vs TyporaReader vs WYSIWYG editor — which fits if you mainly read.
- vs free Quick Look optionsWhat $9.99 buys over free plugins and the free viewer QuickMD.