Markdown Monkey
Fast .md markdown previewer
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Markdown Monkey is a fast, focused reader for Markdown files on your Mac.
Double-click a .md file and land on a clean, typeset document - not a text editor, not a browser tab. Markdown Monkey is built for reading the documentation, notes, README files and design records you accumulate, rendered the way they were meant to look.
READS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY HAVE
CommonMark plus the GitHub extensions that turn up in real files: headings, lists, task lists, tables, fenced and indented code (with syntax highlighting), block quotes, links, images, autolinks, strikethrough, and YAML front matter.
DIAGRAMS
Mermaid code blocks are drawn as diagrams - flowcharts, sequence, class, state, entity-relationship, requirement, pie and Gantt - in your chosen appearance, and they carry through to print and PDF.
FIND YOUR WAY AROUND
- An outline that tracks the section you are reading as you scroll
- Jump to Heading
- Find, with match counts and highlighting
- Move between the other Markdown files in the same folder with Option Up and
Option Down
- Recent documents, grouped by when you opened them
TABS
Up to twelve documents open at once. Drag to rearrange, switch with Command 1 to 9, and have them reopen next time you launch.
MADE FOR READING
- Three reading widths, and a font size slider
- Light, Dark, or Match System
- Syntax highlighting in fenced code, for sixteen languages
- Images, local and remote, with a switch to stop remote loading entirely
SELECT AND COPY
The document is one piece of text, so a drag selects across paragraphs, tables
and code. Copy takes the text; Copy as Markdown takes the Markdown behind
whatever you selected.
TAKE IT WITH YOU
Print, or export a PDF with diagrams and images embedded. Reveal in Finder.
Set Markdown Monkey as your default for .md files.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
Markdown Monkey is sandboxed and asks for nothing it does not need. There is no account and no sign-in. Diagrams are drawn entirely on your Mac - nothing about your documents is sent anywhere. Remote images are the only thing that ever reaches the network, and you can switch them off in Settings.
Markdown Monkey is a reader: it opens and displays your files, and never changes them.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Two fixes to how the reading view is drawn.
- Buttons along the top of the window now respond anywhere inside them, not only on the icon itself
- Highlighted text, the find highlights and inline code no longer sit low against the line they belong to, and the bar beside a block quote is centred on the quote rather than hanging below it
The developer, Stephen Folkes, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Stephen Folkes
- Size
- 2.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Stephen Folkes
