Tim’s Markdown Reader
A fast, minimal, offline Markdown viewer for Mac.
Read local Markdown without opening an editor. This native Swift app renders tables, code blocks, task lists, footnotes, local images, and Mermaid diagrams offline, with linked-file navigation, full-document find, and automatic reload when files change.
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What is Tim’s Markdown Reader best for?
Tim’s Markdown Reader is a free Markdown tool best suited to reading local markdown privately on apple silicon macs running macos 14 or later. It is available as Desktop app on macOS, and it is open source.
At a glance
- Pricing
- Free
- Source
- Open source
- Best for
- Reading local Markdown privately on Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later
Capabilities
- offline reading
- mermaid diagrams
- linked-file navigation
- automatic reload
- full-document find
- remote image blocking
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