MarkdownBeautiful

MarkdownBeautiful is a calm, fast reader for Markdown files on your Mac. Open a README, a design doc, meeting notes or the plan your AI coding agent just wrote, and it looks the way it should: carefully typeset, themed to your taste, and kept current as the file changes.

BEAUTIFUL BY DEFAULT • 19 themes, light and dark, that can follow your Mac's appearance automatically, plus your own theme files • Any font installed on your Mac, five reading widths, adjustable size and line spacing • Zoom each window on its own

EVERYTHING MODERN MARKDOWN CAN DO • GitHub-flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough and definition lists • GitHub-style callouts, including collapsible ones • Math, inline and display • Mermaid diagrams: flowcharts, sequence, class, state, Gantt, pie, mindmaps and more • Syntax highlighting for about 80 languages, with a copy button on every code block • Front matter and generated tables of contents

FIND YOUR WAY • An outline sidebar that highlights the section you're reading • Jump between sections with the arrow keys, or hide everything but the text in reading mode • Find in the document • Word count, reading and speaking time, and readability • Open the file in your editor at the line you're reading

ALWAYS CURRENT • Live reload: when another app or an AI agent changes the file, the page updates in place and keeps your place • Every document reopens where you left off

FOR POST-PRODUCTION • Pro Tools "Session Info as Text" exports open as a session report: offline files, muted and inactive tracks, a timeline of every track with its markers, plug-ins and files • Edit decision lists (CMX 3600) open as event reports with a timeline, locators, speed effects, conform warnings and sources ranked by time used

SHARE IT • Export a paginated PDF that keeps your theme, or a self-contained HTML file • Print on clean white paper

AT HOME ON YOUR MAC • Quick Look: press Space on a Markdown file in Finder to see it rendered with your theme • Tabs, drag and drop, and full keyboard control • Also opens code, JSON, CSV and TSV, Mermaid and plain-text files

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything renders on your Mac. No account, no tracking, no data collected. Turn off images from the web and documents can't contact any website.

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