Vireo - Simple Markdown Editor for MacOS
Free and open source. Your files never leave your computer.
Details
- External ID
- 1257805
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Vireo - Simple Markdown Editor for MacOS
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9529345734445157
- Tags
- Productivity, Writing, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
Description
Vireo is a simple, fast, free, native macOS markdown editor, built in Swift. The markdown syntax is beautifully hidden. Files and folders live on your disk no vaults, no plugins, no drama. - 100% free, MIT open source - 100% local — no account, no cloud, no vaults - Native Mac app: tabs, ⌘P quick open, workspace sidebar, table of contents, focus mode - GFM tables with a native cell editor, floating format toolbar - Quick Look extension for Finder - Requires macOS 15+
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- offline markdown editor for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a minimalist native macOS markdown editor utilizing Apple's standard AppKit/SwiftUI text editing APIs with local file system access.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 301 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 302 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- Markly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- macOS Native Markdown Reader with Vim Keybinding Using Swift · hn · 2026-06-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Tim's Markdown Reader · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MuM · ph · 2026-09-28 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A fast, offline Markdown viewer for macOS built in Swift · hn · 2026-09-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Markdown Prism · hn · 2026-02-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- inkwell - Write without distraction. · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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