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title: Vanilla Markdown
category: "documents"
description: "Vanilla Markdown is a read-only Markdown viewer for local files and folders on macOS."
icon: vanilla-markdown.png
website: https://vanillamarkdown.com/
syntax:
- id: headings
available: y
- id: paragraphs
available: y
- id: line-breaks
available: y
- id: bold
available: y
- id: italic
available: y
- id: blockquotes
available: y
- id: ordered-lists
available: y
- id: unordered-lists
available: y
- id: code
available: y
- id: horizontal-rules
available: y
- id: links
available: y
- id: images
available: y
- id: tables
available: y
- id: fenced-code-blocks
available: y
- id: syntax-highlighting
available: n
- id: footnotes
available: n
- id: heading-ids
available: y
- id: definition-lists
available: n
- id: strikethrough
available: y
- id: task-lists
available: y
- id: emoji-cp
available: y
- id: emoji-sc
available: n
- id: highlight
available: n
- id: subscript
available: n
- id: superscript
available: n
- id: auto-url-linking
available: y
- id: disabling-auto-url
available: n
- id: html
available: y
see-also:
- name: Vanilla Markdown on the Mac App Store
link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vanilla-markdown/id6761537713?mt=12
---

[Vanilla Markdown](https://vanillamarkdown.com/) is a native macOS application for reading Markdown files without opening a full editor. It is designed as a read-only viewer: no cursor, no formatting toolbar, and no accidental edits.

The app can open a single Markdown file, a folder, or a documentation tree. It renders common README features such as tables, task lists, code blocks, links, images, and embedded HTML. It also includes navigation features for larger documentation sets, including a table of contents, full-text search, viewing history, and a links panel for URLs and file paths.

The free version supports viewing one file at a time. The paid version unlocks folder and multi-file navigation, recents, pinning, and other documentation-browsing features.

{% include image.html file="/assets/images/tools/vanilla-markdown.jpg" alt="The Vanilla Markdown app showing a local Markdown document." %}

{% include tool-syntax-table.html %}
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layout: tools
title: Tools
description: Applications and components that support Markdown.
last_modified_at: 2025-11-25
last_modified_at: 2026-04-25
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