leaf
a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience
Details
- External ID
- 47888423
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- leaf
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 46
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8303341902313625
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal markdown previewer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Leaf is a terminal UI (TUI) tool using established libraries like Bubbletea or Ratatui to parse Markdown and render styled terminal text and ANSI graphics.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Glow (charmbracelet/glow), mdterm, Voiden.md (GUI with API testing blocks), Standard markdown editors
Concerns raised: Glow is abandonware with unmaintained bugs, Use case unclear vs full-featured markdown editors, macOS 'open in editor' feature needs testing/feedback
Feature requests: Math equation support (added as differentiator vs Glow), Editor mode that updates as you write in real-time
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1021 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #189 of 1022 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
- Editxr · hn · 2026-06-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Write.md · hn · 2026-08-11 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- I open-sourced a macOS native Markdown rendering engine · hn · 2026-07-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- lsmd · github · 2026-09-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- hype · github · 2026-09-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- dripfetch · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Sarala · hn · 2026-09-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Tuxedo · hn · 2026-05-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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