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Markdown editors and viewers
Desktop, web, mobile and terminal apps for writing, previewing, rendering and converting Markdown files, often with live preview, diagrams, export, and AI integration, for people who keep notes and docs as plain .md files.
Built for: Developers and Markdown note-takers
Projects since May 04
117
Different builders
112
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -33%
AI is the core
2.6%
Projects per week
Mostly desktop app (39%), web app (24%), developer tool or library (18%) · from r/SideProject, r/chrome_extensions, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- Open Mark — Lets users open, preview, and edit markdown files on a phone, with pinch-to-zoom and tappable links.“Open Mark — a simple markdown editor/viewer app, because the others wouldn't do it for me”
- Total Commander Advanced Lister — Renders markdown files as formatted content inside the Total Commander Lister and Quick View panel.“I've created a Total Commander Lister plugin to render markdown”
- PixelLens — Converts the current web page into clean Markdown with a metadata header and can also scan its design tokens and contrast.“I got tired of pasting messy web pages into ChatGPT, so I built a free extension that turns any page into clean Markdown (runs locally)”
- Markify — Edits and reads Markdown documents in a native macOS editor with WYSIWYG and raw source modes.“Markify: a free, open-source native Markdown editor for macOS”
- Mithril — Provides a Markdown note editor for Windows with arrow-key note browsing, live preview, Mermaid diagrams, and a built-in terminal.“Mithril — a Windows Markdown notebook with Mermaid diagrams and a built-in terminal”
- docode — Adds a code editor with syntax highlighting and language detection inside Google Docs for inserting programming snippets.“Extension for writing programming notes in Google Docs”
- NOBADPDF — Converts markdown documents to PDF offline using selectable templates and renders math with KaTeX.“I got tired of converters that uploading my unpublished docs to random servers, so I built an offline one — no watermark, free to use”
- Sarvak — Opens Markdown, images, PDFs, Jupyter notebooks, SQLite, Parquet, CSV and code files side by side in one native desktop viewer, and attaches to a live Claude Code session to show folded live diffs.“My usual workflow involves n different file types, created by multiple AI agents and I had serious trouble tracking everything...”
- Tim's Markdown Reader — Displays Markdown files offline on Mac, including Mermaid diagrams, with search and linked navigation between files.“I built a fast, minimal Markdown viewer for Mac for devs who read a lot of AI-generated Markdown”
- Fulvid — Edits Markdown and MDX files stored directly on disk, with full-folder search, document links, preview and graph navigation.“Fulvid is live on Product Hunt: an open source Markdown and MDX editor built around ordinary files”
- Deckstream — Turns markdown text typed in an editor into a live-rendered slide deck that can be published to a shareable link.“I got tired of PowerPoint for quick decks, so I built a live markdown editor that renders slides as you type”
- jev-lint — Scans Obsidian vaults and markdown wikis for contradictions, stale claims, unresolved markers and missing wikilink targets, and writes a report without editing notes.“jev-lint: a linter for obsidian vaults that never edits notes”
- Simple But Very Useful Text Editor — Edits plain and Markdown text files on Windows with word counting, list sorting, blank-line removal, and Markdown preview.“Simple But Very Useful Text Editor”
- MarkVisu — Converts Markdown text or files into PNG or JPEG images entirely in the browser.“Built a small tool to solve my own annoyance - Markdown to image, no upload”
- Domternal — Provides an embeddable rich text editor library built on ProseMirror, with classic, Notion-style and headless modes plus optional paid collaboration and export extensions.“Domternal - A rich text editor with classic, Notion-style and headless setups”
- simple-notes — Provides an open-source markdown note-taking editor.“Yes Another Markdown Editor but..”
- AI Search — Searches a folder of Markdown notes by meaning inside VS Code, with optional reranking of results.“Searching my Markdown notes by meaning in VS Code”
- VITA/NEXO — Interprets a Markdown file declaring data, UI and actions into a runnable application across web, mobile, desktop, extension and CLI.“VITA/NEXO — A declarative language for AI agents that run on web, mobile, desktop, and CLI using the same engine”
- FlokinMD — Builds a local, disposable database-like view over a folder of Markdown files, with frontmatter collections, SQL queries, and relationship and validation checks.“I had hundreds of Markdown files and no good way to understand them as a whole, so I built FlokinMD”
- Gite.md — Opens a git repository of markdown notes in the browser and lets you edit them with folders, tags, tables and diagrams.“I built a markdown, table and excalidraw web-based editor that lives on top of a git repo, so I can use it on my work computer where I can't install anything”
Most discussed
- Lets non-developers write docs in a Notion-like editor and publish a live docs site in minutes, without Git or deploys.“Took 6 months to build a docs SaaS. No clue if I should keep going. Help.”
- Gadyam — Opens folders of plain markdown files and provides a minimal live-preview editor for writing them.“Gadyam — Because I just wanted a markdown editor [Claude Opus 4.8]”
- MarkLite — Edits markdown text in a lightweight editor.“Yes it is another markdown editor 😅”
- Converts a webpage to markdown before copying it so headings, tables, lists, links and code survive when pasted into an AI chat.“I thought only I had this problem and it was too niche, but my users are rising!! woohoo!”
- Gite.md — Opens a git repository of markdown notes in the browser and lets you edit them with folders, tags, tables and diagrams.“I built a markdown, table and excalidraw web-based editor that lives on top of a git repo, so I can use it on my work computer where I can't install anything”
- Markdown Diff Visualiser — Shows rendered side-by-side previews of markdown changes with word-level highlighting inside VS Code.“I built a VS Code extension that shows you rendered markdown diffs instead of raw +/- lines”
- FlokinMD — Builds a local, disposable database-like view over a folder of Markdown files, with frontmatter collections, SQL queries, and relationship and validation checks.“I had hundreds of Markdown files and no good way to understand them as a whole, so I built FlokinMD”
- strata.space — Syncs markdown documents in real time between the local filesystem and AI chat apps through FUSE, FSKit, and websockets.“Sabotage your HN post in two easy steps”
- GDMS — Syncs local Markdown files and Google Docs in both directions, keeping paired documents up to date on either side.“I built GDMS — two-way sync between local Markdown files and Google Docs”
- VITA/NEXO — Interprets a Markdown file declaring data, UI and actions into a runnable application across web, mobile, desktop, extension and CLI.“VITA/NEXO — A declarative language for AI agents that run on web, mobile, desktop, and CLI using the same engine”