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MD Smarter – Markdown Viewer & Editor

by wei.harris · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 19 Oct 2026

Read and edit local or online Markdown files, then export to Word or PDF. Everything stays on your device.

Users
6
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Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
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Store rank
#242K
#202K among extensions
Version
1.0.2
updated 18 Oct 2026

About MD Smarter – Markdown Viewer & Editor

MD Smarter turns Chrome into a clean, fast Markdown reader and editor. Open .md files from your computer, from any URL, or straight from a GitHub page — then read them beautifully, edit with live preview, and export to Word or PDF. Got a README from GitHub, notes from an AI tool, or docs from a teammate? Just click the MD Smarter icon. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OPEN FROM ANYWHERE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Open local files (.md, .markdown, .txt) with one click, or drag & drop them onto the page • Paste any link to a Markdown file — GitHub file links are converted to raw automatically • On a GitHub .md page or a raw .md tab, click the toolbar icon to open it instantly • Local file:// tabs are supported too (after enabling "Allow access to file URLs") ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READ COMFORTABLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • GitHub-flavored Markdown: headings, tables, task lists, quotes, links and images • Syntax highlighting for code blocks • Outline sidebar — jump to any section, with the current section highlighted as you scroll • Light, dark, or follow-system theme ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EDIT AND SAVE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Three views: Read, Edit and Split (live preview side by side) • Save changes straight back to the original local file with Cmd/Ctrl+S • Online files can be saved as a new .md file on your computer • Unsaved-changes indicator and a reminder before you close the tab ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPORT TO WORD OR PDF ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Word (.docx): keeps headings, bold/italic, links, lists, tables, code blocks, quotes and images • PDF: clean, print-ready A4 pages with no toolbars • Works for both local and online files ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Everything happens locally in your browser • No account, no analytics, no tracking, no servers • Website access is requested only when you open a link from a new site — and only for that site • All rendered content is sanitized to block malicious scripts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ All features are free. If MD Smarter saves you time, you can support development from the ☕ Support page — Buy Me a Coffee for global users, Alipay for users in mainland China. Entirely optional. Interface available in English and Simplified Chinese. Questions or feedback: wei.harris@gmail.com

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Version history

3 versions recorded
1.0.218 Oct 2026
1.0.17 Oct 2026
1.0.03 Oct 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
3 Oct 2026
Size
527 KB
Languages
en, zh-CN
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
mk-harris.github.io
Support
mk-harris.github.io
Extension ID
alnbamjdmppdljnbnkjdocpkneklakko

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 0, likelihood 3
Permissions
activeTabscriptingstorage

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