Add Glance — lightweight macOS Markdown viewer#1971
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Glance is a native macOS Markdown viewer built with Tauri 2. It fills the gap of a dedicated, privacy-focused .md file viewer — no editing, no cloud, no telemetry. Features syntax highlighting (Shiki), mermaid diagrams, table of contents, and file watching with auto-reload. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What is Glance?
Glance is a lightweight, native macOS Markdown viewer built with Tauri 2 (Rust + TypeScript). It registers as the default
.md/.markdownfile handler so you can open any Markdown file with a single click.Why add it?
macOS has no built-in Markdown renderer — double-clicking a
.mdfile opens Xcode (slow) or TextEdit (raw text). Most tools in the Markdown Tools section are editors. Glance is a viewer only, filling a different niche:Links