showmd
Markdown was never meant to be previewed plain text
Details
- External ID
- 1122175
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- showmd
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- April 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 202
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2753623188405797
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, User Experience, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
Ever asked yourself why all of those SKILL.md files are rendered in plain text in MacOS Preview? showmd is a free, native macOS Quick Look extension that renders Markdown beautifully. YAML frontmatter parsed into a collapsible metadata table — collapsed by default, one click to expand. No other viewer does this. Agentic AI XML tags — and 17 more — rendered as labeled, bordered blocks instead of raw angle brackets.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- markdown preview tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a macOS Quick Look extension that parses Markdown and YAML frontmatter into formatted HTML is standard native Swift/AppKit development that AI coding tools can generate effortlessly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 163 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #145 of 164 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 140 days after the earliest competitor.
- RenderMD · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- MDFK · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Markdown Viewer and Editor · hn · 2026-08-31 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- MDDeck · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- MarkdownViewer - Free Markdown Viewer · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- mdprint · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- MDDock · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- BuildMyMD — Modern Markdown Editor · ph · 2026-09-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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