Drop a .md on the icon (or set Markdown Preview as your default handler) and get a clean, scrollable preview with a real document outline — no Electron, no browser tab.
Installation
Markdown Preview is available in the official Homebrew cask repository:
brew install --cask markdown-preview
Or grab the latest signed and notarized DMG from the Releases page.
Screenshots
Features
App language: Choose Settings → General → Language to use a bundled translation independently of your system language. The app offers to restart right away so the choice applies to settings, menus, and document controls; choose Later to keep working, and it applies the next time you open the app. System Default removes the app override and follows macOS again. This preference persists across launches and affects only the app; Quick Look previews continue to use their system-selected language. Available languages are discovered from the app’s bundled translations.
Settings uses toolbar tabs. General holds the language, how files open, Always on Top, automatic saving, and the app the Open button uses. Reading contains text size, content width, text alignment, Markdown line breaks, and outline highlighting. Appearance contains the light/dark choice, themes, and their font, spacing, and color customization, with a live sample; resetting a theme leaves global Reading preferences unchanged. Advanced holds the command line tools installer and the app link approvals.
Text alignment: Choose Settings → Reading → Text alignment for Automatic, Left, Center, Right, or Justified prose. Automatic preserves the document’s existing alignment, including right-to-left text. This global preference persists across launches and theme changes, updates open reading views immediately, and applies to Quick Look when reopened. Code, tables, and explicit HTML alignment remain unchanged. Justification leaves the final paragraph line naturally aligned; enable Strict line breaks to join ordinary source wraps into flowing paragraphs.
Single source newlines remain visible by default. Enable Settings → Reading → Markdown → Strict line breaks to let ordinary source lines flow into paragraphs in reading view and Quick Look. Two trailing spaces or a backslash still create an explicit line break; blank lines still separate paragraphs. Reopen an existing Quick Look preview after changing this setting.
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