MDV for Mac

MDV is a Markdown viewer. It's like Preview, but for Markdown.

→ Download for macOS 13+

Features

• Github-flavored Markdown rendering
• A file watcher for hot-reloading
• Find / Find Next / Find Previous
• Print to PDF or paper
• A bundled Quick Look preview extension
• A bundled command line tool

Command Line Tool

MDV comes bundled with a command line tool called mdv that opens Markdown files from the terminal.

To use it, put this folder in your PATH:

/Applications/MDV.app/Contents/bin

For example, if you use zsh, put the following in .zprofile:

export PATH="/Applications/MDV.app/Contents/bin:$PATH"

Alternatively, you can symlink it:

$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ ln -sf /Applications/MDV.app/Contents/bin/mdv .

It takes zero or more Markdown files as arguments:

$ mdv --help
Usage: mdv [file ...]
$ mdv README.md

MDV uses cmark-gfm and highlight.js under the hood.