Integrations

Make your terminal and tools open Markdown in Markdown Better View — it live-reloads on every save, so you edit anywhere and the preview follows. macOS only.

AI coding tools (one command)

Auto-open Markdown in MBV as your AI assistant writes it — detects and configures Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, and prints setup steps for VS Code and JetBrains.

curl -fsSL https://markdownbetterview.com/setup | bash

Read it first, or undo:

curl -fsSL https://markdownbetterview.com/setup -o mbv-ai-setup.sh
less mbv-ai-setup.sh
bash mbv-ai-setup.sh
curl -fsSL https://markdownbetterview.com/setup | bash -s -- --uninstall

Install the mbv command

Homebrew (recommended):

brew install markdownbetterview/tap/mbv

Or curl:

curl -fsSL https://markdownbetterview.com/cli_setup | bash

Prefer to read it first?

curl -fsSL https://markdownbetterview.com/cli_setup -o mbv-setup.sh
less mbv-setup.sh
bash mbv-setup.sh

Use it

mbv README.md      # open/refresh in MBV (foreground)
mbv -b README.md   # background: keep your current app focus
some-cmd | mbv -   # pipe Markdown from stdin

Any other tool

Anything that can run a command can use MBV directly:

open -g -a "Markdown Better View" path/to/file.md

The -g keeps focus where it is. Requires Markdown Better View from the App Store.