MDV - a clean Markdown viewer for Mac, from the Itsycal dev
I think a lot of you know Mowglii and the app Itsycal, it's been mentioned here multiple times, and it's just a little, perfect menu bar calendar. I recently visited his website and discovered MDV, a free Markdown viewer for Mac. From…
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“I think a lot of you know Mowglii and the app Itsycal, it's been mentioned here multiple times, and it's just a little, perfect menu bar calendar.
I recently visited his website and discovered MDV, a free Markdown viewer for Mac.
From…”I think a lot of you know Mowglii and the app Itsycal, it's been mentioned here multiple times, and it's just a little, perfect menu bar calendar.
I recently visited his website and discovered MDV, a free Markdown viewer for Mac.
From the website:
Features
Github-flavored Markdown rendering
A File Watcher which updates as you edit
A Table of Contents sidebar
YAML and TOML front matter blocks
Mermaid diagrams
Document search
Print to PDF or paper
A bundled Quick Look preview extension
A bundled command line tool
Command Line Tool
MDV comes with a command line tool called mdv that opens Markdown files from the terminal.
Since quite a few Markdown viewers are popping up lately, I wanted to bring attention to this one, from a dev we trust.
Official website: https://www.mowglii.com/mdv/
I'm not affiliated with the dev, I haven't been paid to promote the app, and I haven't seen this mentioned here before.
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Will try it. Thank you!
Does it/can it hook into quicklook? I have one like that but its a tad buggy and would make a quick squiz of MD files a tonne easier
Nice find! The Quick Look extension is what caught my attention. Being able to preview Markdown files directly from Finder is much more convenient than opening a full editor every time.
just tested it and it does work with quicklook
Neat! Thankyou!
It's got quicklook too? I've seen a lot of markdown viewers but this is the first one I've seen that has quicklook... that's so awesome.
Yes! It works as a standalone app, a QuickLook plugin, or via the command line. pretty versatile little tool. Remember to enable the QuickLook extension in System Settings (under Extensions, or Login Items & Extensions depending on your macOS version).
looks awesome. is it electron based?
Sorry, I'm not the dev, but the app is pretty light (~4MB) so I don't think it's Electron. I asked Claude to check, and it confirmed it's native Swift/Objective-C: "It uses a WKWebView just to render the markdown (syntax highlighting, Mermaid diagrams), not a bundled Chromium/Electron runtime." Could be missing something, so please wait for a second opinion.
It’s not. You can right click the .app, choose Show Contents, and look around. It uses Sparkle for updates and cmark-gfm 0.29.0 for parsing and HTML generation.