Render Markdown files as styled HTML with themes, syntax highlighting, TOC, Mermaid and KaTeX.
Users
114
+26 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#80K
#67K among extensions
Version
0.4.2
updated 4 Jun 2026
Users
monthly, 6 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:114 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
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Latest, 16 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Markdown Viewer
Markdown Viewer turns any .md or .markdown file in Chrome into a beautifully styled page.
KEY FEATURES
• 10 themes: Auto, GitHub Light, GitHub Dark, Sepia, Dracula, One Dark, Tokyo Night, Nord, Solarized Dark, Solarized Light
• Live auto-reload while editing — the extension watches the file and re-renders on save (opt-in via Options)
• Copy-code button on every fenced code block
• Resizable, collapsible Table of Contents with active-heading tracking
• Syntax highlighting for ~35 languages via highlight.js
• Mermaid diagrams (flowchart, sequence, class, state, ER, gantt, pie, journey, git graph, mindmap, quadrant)
• KaTeX math rendering (inline $…$ and display $$…$$)
• Adjustable reading width (full, wide, normal, narrow) and font size
• Toggle rendered / raw with one click
• XSS-safe: all output sanitized with DOMPurify
• Works on local files (file://) and remote raw-file URLs
PRIVACY
All rendering happens locally in your browser. No data is sent to any server. No analytics, no telemetry, no remote code. Auto-reload (when enabled) only reads
your local file - nothing leaves your browser.
Privacy policy: https://www.empiricapps.com/markdown-viewer-privacy
OPEN SOURCE
MIT-licensed. Source code, releases, and changelog:
https://github.com/mburlac/empiric-apps-markdown-viewer-chrome
RECENT CHANGES
v0.4.1 (2026-05-27) - Fix: blank page on first .md file opened from a folder (added page-context fetch fallback for file:// when the service worker is cold-starting).
v0.4.0 - 5 new themes (One Dark, Tokyo Night, Nord, Solarized Dark, Solarized Light), live auto-reload while editing, copy-code button on every fenced block,
fix for non-English text in code blocks
v0.3.2 - Robust raw-text retrieval; no more blank page on refresh after editing
v0.3.1 - Fix for blank page on drag-drop / "Open with Chrome" first load
v0.3.0 - Resizable TOC, burger menu toggle, full-width reading mode, fixes for tab title and Mermaid on local files
v0.2.0 - Initial public release
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