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MD View — the markdown viewer for Windows

Documentation for MD View, the fastest markdown viewer for Windows. Quickstart, keyboard shortcuts, CLI reference, and Pro features in one place.

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MD View is the fastest markdown viewer for Windows. Native code, not Electron. Designed for reading the .md files your tools and AI agents produce by the hour — CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, RFCs, plans, design docs — not for editing them.

This documentation covers everything: install in 30 seconds, every keyboard shortcut, the full CLI, and how the Pro features (split view, PDF export with nested bookmarks, DOCX export, git-diff overlay, verification) work in practice.

Why a viewer-only app

Editors render markdown as a side effect of editing it. The reading experience is always second priority. MD View flips that: rendering is the product. Cold start is fast, scrolling is jank-free, fonts and colors are tuned for long reads, and the keyboard layer assumes you know your way around.

If you write markdown in Cursor, VS Code, Obsidian, Notepad++, or any other editor, MD View slots in next to it as the read-side window: double-click a .md, see it rendered, never touch the editor’s preview pane again.

Where to start

What makes it different

  • Viewer-first, not an editor. No edit mode, no plugin system, no cloud sync. Reading is the whole product.
  • Native Windows app — not Electron. WebView2 + Rust shell. About 15 MB on disk. Cold start is effectively instant on modern hardware.
  • No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud. Everything stays on disk. The app never phones home. The website uses Plausible (cookieless, no tracking).
  • One-time license. $24 lifetime, $14 founder edition for the first 100 buyers. No subscription, ever. 14-day Pro trial built into the desktop app — no card required.

14-day Pro trial. Every Pro feature unlocks automatically when you first open the app. Enter a license key to keep them past day 14, or stay on the free Reader mode forever.

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