Pica MD Viewer.
Markdown, set in beautiful type.
A fast, focused, view-only Markdown reader for Mac, built for people who just want to READ their .md files — with no editor in the way. Open a file and it renders instantly: full GitHub-Flavored Markdown, Quick Look in Finder, and folder browsing.
A view-only reader that renders every part of GitHub-Flavored Markdown — set in beautiful type.
- Headings, lists, tables
- Fenced code blocks
- Quick Look in Finder
let reader = MarkdownView(url)
reader.render()
Everything,
rendered right.
Open a Markdown file and it renders instantly in the SIGNAL design language shared across the Pica family — clean Funnel Display headings, JetBrains Mono code, a warm paper canvas, and a single, deliberate accent color.
Built to
read.
Set your line length.
Long lines are hard to read. Choose Narrow, Comfortable, or Wide content width and the document re-flows for easy lines — whatever feels right for the file in front of you.
Day or night.
Read at any hour. Light, Dark, and System appearance — warm paper by day, warm espresso by night. Full text selection and copy, the Mac way.
Open files
any way you like.
However the file gets to you. Double-click any .md or .markdown file in Finder, use File ▸ Open, or drag a file onto a window. Browse sibling Markdown files in the folder sidebar, and jump back to anything in Open Recent.
Stays
on this
Mac.
Everything happens on your Mac. Pica MD Viewer reads the files you point it at, renders them, and that's it — read-only, so it never modifies your documents. No account, no tracking, no ads.