nicemd

The app for .md files on your Mac

Markdown,
made nice.

Markdown files, opened like documents. Press Space to read one, edit it like a doc, and it stays the plain file your AI reads.

Download on the Mac App Store

Free to read. Try editing free for 14 days. No account.

nicemd showing a project folder in the sidebar and a migration plan rendered as a page, with a callout, a status table and highlighted code.

Free · In Finder

Press Space. Read the page.

Select any .md file in Finder and press Space. Quick Look shows it rendered, diagrams and tables included, instead of a wall of # and ** marks.

A Finder window listing Markdown files, with Quick Look showing architecture.md as a rendered page with two diagrams.

Free · Rendered on your Mac

Math, code and diagrams, rendered.

Tables, task lists, footnotes and callouts. LaTeX math, highlighted code and Mermaid diagrams. All of it rendered offline, with nothing to install.

Ranking notes with typeset formulas and a results table.
Formulas, typeset
An API client document in the Night theme with highlighted Python and TypeScript.
Code, in colour
An architecture flowchart and a sequence diagram drawn from Mermaid text.
Diagrams from plain text

Free for 14 days, then $4.99 once

Edit it like a doc. It stays Markdown.

The Markdown marks fade until your cursor reaches them. Type / for a table, a diagram, a callout or math. Tables edit as a grid.

Only what you type changes. The rest of the file stays exactly as it was, so your AI reads your edits next time.

The live editor: a results table and a formula rendered, with a faint ## showing only on the heading being edited.The / menu open in a note, offering headings, lists, a table, a callout, math and a diagram.

Free · Folders

Open the whole folder.

Press ⇧⌘O, or drop a folder on nicemd, and every note sits in one sidebar. Click to read, ⌘-click for a new tab.

Leave a file open while an agent rewrites it. The page keeps up on its own.

The Project Atlas folder in the sidebar, with a weekly summary open beside it.

Free · Themes

Make it yours.

Six themes, including Night, and four fonts.

A plan in the Paper theme.The same plan in the Night theme.The same plan in the Solarized theme.

Word, HTML and PDF

Send it on.

For people who don't use Markdown. Print and Save as PDF are free; Word and HTML export are part of the unlock.

The File menu with Export as open, showing HTML, Word and PDF.

Native to the Mac.

Local by design.

Nothing to manage.

A small app, bought once

Your files.
Your focus.

$4.99

Reading, Quick Look, folders, themes, Save as PDF and Copy as HTML are free. The editor, the / menu, split view and export to HTML and Word are a one-time unlock, free to try for 14 days. No subscription.

Download on the Mac App Store