Pretty Markdown 1.3

Minor update to Pretty Markdown, a native macOS Markdown viewer.

What's new

• Side images now sit beside their text instead of floating. #left / #right images previously used CSS floats, which had two problems: a left and a right image near each other squeezed the text between them into a narrow column, and a following blockquote (or other block) could overlap the image because floats have to be manually cleared.

  Floated layout is replaced by a flex media row: a side image is paired with the paragraph (or list) that immediately follows it and laid out as an image column beside a text column. Anything after that — blockquotes, headings, tables, another image — falls cleanly full-width below the row, so nothing gets pinched or overlapped. On narrow windows the image stacks above its text.

  Size hints (#small / #medium / #large) and captions are unchanged.

Install

1. Download PrettyMarkdown-1.3.zip below and unzip it.
2. Move PrettyMarkdown.app to your Applications folder.
3. The app is ad-hoc signed (not notarized), so on first launch right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm.

Requires macOS 14 or later.

Pretty Markdown 1.2

Minor update to Pretty Markdown, a native macOS Markdown viewer.

What's new

• Images now render. Previously the viewer only handled [text](url) links and dropped image syntax as literal text. This release adds full image support:
  • Bare images — ![alt](src) — with alt text.
  • Images as links — [![alt](src)](url) — the image stays clickable.
  • Captions — a Markdown title becomes a <figure> caption, e.g. ![alt](src "My caption").
  • Size & float hints in the alt text — #small / #medium / #large to constrain width, and #left / #right to float the image so text wraps around it (floated images default to small). The hints are stripped from the visible alt text.
  • Styling is wired to the viewer's own light/dark theme, with a hover affordance on linked images; floats collapse to full width on narrow windows.

Install

1. Download `PrettyMarkdown-1.2.zip` below and unzip it.
2. Move `PrettyMarkdown.app` to your Applications folder.
3. The app is ad-hoc signed (not notarized), so on first launch right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm.

Requires macOS 14 or later.

Pretty Markdown 1.1

Minor update to Pretty Markdown, a native macOS Markdown viewer.

What's new

• YAML front matter is now rendered as an elegant metadata card above the document instead of collapsing into the first paragraph. Supports plain and quoted values, folded (>-) and literal (|) block scalars, string lists (shown as chips), and nested mappings (shown as dotted keys like metadata.type). Works in light and dark mode.

Install

1. Download PrettyMarkdown-1.1.zip below and unzip it.
2. Move PrettyMarkdown.app to your Applications folder.
3. The app is ad-hoc signed (not notarized), so on first launch right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm.

Requires macOS 14 or later.

Pretty Markdown 1.0

First release of Pretty Markdown, a native macOS Markdown viewer.

Install

1. Download PrettyMarkdown-1.0.zip below and unzip it.
2. Move PrettyMarkdown.app to your Applications folder.
3. The app is ad-hoc signed (not notarized), so on first launch right-click the app and choose Open, then confirm.

Features

• Open via toolbar, ⌘O, Open Recent, drag-and-drop, or Finder
• Live reload when the file changes on disk
• Auto-generated table of contents with scroll-spy
• Light / dark / system appearance
• Adjustable reading size (⌘+, ⌘-, ⌘0)
• Syntax highlighting with language auto-detection
• Tables, task lists, blockquotes, code blocks, and more

Requires macOS 14 or later.