Markant — The Missing Markdown Reader for macOS

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Free on the Mac App Store

The Missing
Markdown Reader

Markdown is AI's format of choice, here's the missing viewer for macOS. Read, Print, Share Markdown, without becoming a software developer.

Markant displaying a technical document with sidebar navigation, images, and clean typography

Beautiful typography

Four themes — System, Paper, Ink, Academic — each adaptive to light and dark mode. Typography that makes you want to read.

Just works

Select text, search with ⌘F, copy with ⌘C — everything works the way you'd expect. No surprises.

MarkBooks

Open .mkb files — portable Markdown eBooks with chapters, images, and metadata in a single file. An open format AI can generate.

Print and PDF

⌘P to print or export to PDF. Vector math, proper table reflow, and light-mode rendering regardless of your current theme.

Read in comfort

Four themes, light and dark

Switch themes instantly. Each adapts to your system appearance. Adjust content width between narrow, relaxed, and wide.

Markant in light mode showing a research paper with sidebar and math Markant in dark mode showing the same document

A new format for a new era

Get more from AI with MarkBooks

Every LLM outputs Markdown. MarkBooks package that output — text, images, chapters — into a single portable file. Ask your AI to create a MarkBook, and open it in Markant.

MarkBooks is an open format. Unzip a .mkb and you have plain Markdown, editable in any text editor.

Claude AI generating a MarkBook that opens in Markant

Everything you need

A complete Markdown experience

Syntax highlighting for 185+ languages. LaTeX math — inline and display. GFM tables. Obsidian vault navigation with wikilinks. YAML frontmatter. Images, blockquotes, task lists.

Markant is not an editor. It does one thing — render Markdown beautifully — and does it exceptionally well.

Markant showing a document with sidebar, images, code blocks, and rich formatting

Free. Native. Beautiful.

Markant is completely free. Just download and start reading.