Opens three ways
Press Open a file, drop a .md anywhere on the window, or paste markdown straight in. A file opened from your file manager opens too.
Opens and reads markdown files.
One codebase, built with Tauri v2, for Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. Opens .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd and .mdx files, and never writes to them.
- Nothing collected
- Up in about a tenth of a second
- Updates itself
- MIT license
What it does
Opens, reads, searches
Opens .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd and .mdx files. Searches inside them, lists the headings, and never writes to them.
Finds its way around
The outline lists every heading, and clicking one scrolls to it. The find bar steps through the matches with Enter and Shift+Enter.
Adjustable to taste
Typeface, size, spacing, column width, paper grain and seven color palettes. Every change applies the moment you make it.
Remembers what you read
The history keeps the documents you opened, by path, so it can offer them back. The list stays on your device.
Opens quickly
The syntax highlighter is fetched only when a document contains code, and the settings drawer is built only when it is opened. The window is painting in about a tenth of a second.
Updates itself
The about window asks GitHub whether a newer release exists and offers to install it. Every update is signed, and the signature is checked before anything is installed.
Paper and ink
Two pages, one reading
A warm printed page for daylight, and the same page at night. Switching wipes across from wherever you clicked.
Everything is a setting
Nothing here is fixed
Six groups of settings, each one applied the instant you touch it.
Appearance
Light, dark, or follow the system. Paper grain is yours to keep or drop.
Palette
Seven color schemes, each setting the accent and the link color together.
Links
The color of a link, and whether links are always underlined or only on hover.
Typography
Body face, code face, size, line height, letter and word spacing, paragraph spacing, heading scale, alignment.
Layout
How wide the column is, and how square the corners of an image are.
Code
The size of code, and nothing else. The highlighting does the rest.
Get it
One binary, nothing to install beside it
No Node.js, no runtime, no package manager. You download a file, you run it, you are reading.
| Platform | What you get | How to run it |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | .AppImage, .deb, .rpm |
Run the AppImage, or install the package. The AppImage carries everything it needs and runs from Alpine to Arch. |
| Windows | .msi, -setup.exe |
Run the installer, or the portable executable. |
| macOS | .dmg, .app |
Drag the app to Applications. |
| iOS | .ipa |
Install through Xcode or TestFlight. |
| Android | .apk, .aab |
Install the package. |
Under the hood
The short version
~0.1 suntil the window is painting
1binary, and nothing beside it
8typefaces, bundled locally
0bytes of personal data collected
MITthe license
The project
Read more, or take it further
The source is open. The reader is small enough to read in an afternoon, and the parts that matter are the parts that are tested.
Source
The whole project, in Rust and TypeScript, with a test suite that runs on Node's own runner. github.com/siamprimetech/mdreader
Privacy
What stays on your device, and the three things that ever leave it. Read the policy
Licenses
Every bundled library and typeface, with the license that applies to each. See the list
Security
How documents are sanitised, how updates are signed, and how to report a problem privately. The policy