Markdown Viewer Online

Open a .md file or paste Markdown and read it as a formatted page. Headings become a clickable table of contents, and a full-screen mode removes everything but the text. The file stays in your browser.

Drop a Markdown file here

.md, .markdown or .txt, up to 5 MB

Or paste Markdown

Your text and files stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

How it works

Drop a .md, .markdown or .txt file on the page, or paste the text.
The document renders straight away. Use the contents list on the left to jump to a heading.
Switch to full-screen reading, copy the original Markdown, download it again, or print the page to PDF.

When it helps

Reading a README or documentation file that was handed to you without any tooling.
Checking how notes, changelogs or exported chats look before you share them.
Proofreading a long Markdown document as a page instead of as raw symbols.

What it does

GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, strikethrough, fenced code and automatic links.
A table of contents built from your headings, including headings in other alphabets.
Full-screen reading mode, with the contents list still in reach.
Copy the original text, download it unchanged, or print the rendered page.

Good to know

Everything happens in your browser, so the file is never uploaded. Embedded HTML in a document is shown as plain text rather than run, and links that are not web, mail or phone links are removed. Images appear only if their address is a web link, and the browser fetches them from that address. Diagrams and maths formulas are not drawn.

Questions people ask

How do I open an .md file?: An .md file is plain text. You can open it in any text editor, but to see it formatted, drop it here. The page renders headings, lists, tables and links the way they are meant to look.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?: No. The file is read by your browser and rendered on your device. Nothing is sent to a server, and closing the tab clears it.
Does it handle front matter at the top of a file?: Yes, in a simple way. A YAML block between two lines of three dashes at the very start is shown as a code block, so it does not get mixed into the text.
Can I save the result as PDF?: Use the print button and choose Save as PDF in your browser’s print dialog. For control over paper size, margins and fonts, use the Markdown to PDF tool.

Keep going with Markdown

Want to change the text? Edit it with live preview in the Markdown Editor.
Need a document to print or send? Convert Markdown to PDF with your own page layout.
Publishing on the web? Convert Markdown to HTML and copy the markup.
Sharing with people who work in Word? Convert Markdown to a Word file.