mddog

Real Markdown, right in your terminal

Other terminal viewers render Markdown with only characters. Code editors render the real page but live outside the terminal. mddog renders the real page in your terminal, using a single binary without browser nor Electron.

_{Compared in November 2026 to terminal viewers like glow, leaf, mdcat, Frogmouth, and rich-cli, and to the built-in Markdown previews in VS Code, Cursor, Zed, and JetBrains IDEs.}

brew install qu8n/tap/mddog

Or, without Homebrew:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qu8n/mddog/main/install.sh | sh

• macOS
• A terminal that supports the kitty graphics protocol: Ghostty, iTerm2, kitty, WezTerm, or Rex

mdd             # list Markdown files in the current directory to pick from
mdd README.md   # preview a file

Read the full docs at mddog.pages.dev/docs for key bindings, Claude Code plugin, configuration, themes, and more.

The logo was made by Helen Nguyen (@daymelon), commissioned for mddog and not covered by the MIT license.