Markdown Viewer

Markdown is written as plain text with symbols for structure — hashes for headings, asterisks for emphasis, dashes for lists. That is excellent for writing and poor for reading: open a .md file in a normal text app and you see the symbols instead of the document.

The Markdown Viewer renders it properly. Headings look like headings, lists look like lists, emphasis is emphasised, and the structure the author intended is visible.

Open files from your device or have another app share one across. Everything renders on the phone, so the file is not uploaded and the viewer works offline.

It is free, which matters because Markdown files tend to arrive unexpectedly — a README, exported notes, documentation someone sent — and installing a paid app to read one is not a reasonable ask.

Tables, code blocks, nested lists and links all render as intended, which matters because those are exactly the parts that are hardest to read as raw symbols. A README with a configuration table is almost unreadable unrendered and perfectly clear once it is laid out.

Because rendering happens on the device, a file with sensitive notes in it is not sent anywhere to be turned into something readable — a step most online Markdown previewers quietly involve.