A standalone application that renders and displays Markdown files. It does nothing else! No direct editing nor any fancy note taking features. It is not distributed as a browser extension nor does it fire up a web server - so no web browser is needed to see the rendered Markdown file.

See the flavor documentation for Markdown features additional to GitHub Flavored Markdown.

You find the latest binaries and setup file at GitHub.

Package formats:

• Windows: Setup-exe, ZIP archive
• Linux: AppImage package
• macOS: DMG package

The Windows setup file supports following parameters:

• /S runs the setup silently, i.e. in the background, without UI and without asking any questions.
• /D=C:\path\to\install sets the installation directory. This parameter has to be the last one. The path must not contain quotes, even if the path contains whitespaces.

The application can be installed via winget:

winget install c3er.mdview

The application can be installed via Scoop:

scoop install https://github.com/c3er/mdview/releases/latest/download/mdview.json

Issues occurred with browser download security features and Windows SmartScreen. I checked both, the Windows Setup-EXE and the ZIP file in VirusTotal and no engine detected anything at upload time.

I don't know yet, how to prevent these blockings without paying an annual fee.

The application may have a delay at startup. This delay may be caused by Windows Defender. See my comment in Electron issue #29868 and this StackOverflow question. Other virus scanner may also cause a delay.

As a workaround to remove this delay, you can add the path to the mdview.exe to the exclusion list of your virus scanner. The default installation path of the setup file are:

• C:\Program Files\mdview for system wide installation
• %appdata%\..\Local\Programs\mdview for installation in the user account (non elevated)

You may encounter some issue when trying to build the Electron distribution (binaries) i.e. the build may (partially) fail.

A possible fix is described here not able to build installer/uninstaller (ERR_ELECTRON_BUILDER_CANNOT_EXECUTE)

See the CONTRIBUTING file.

This tool is made by Christian Dreier. If you find a copy somewhere, you find the original at GitHub.

You can use and copy this tool under the conditions of the MIT license.

There is a fork of this project by Loïs Bégué.