Changelog
Every release of MarkV, from the first page that rendered a Markdown file to the calm reader it is today. Newest first.
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A proper welcome
New visitors now land on a short welcome page instead of a test document. It shows how to open your own files, where the reading settings live and how to find your way around, with hand-drawn arrows that point at each control while you read about it. The old sample lives on as the Markdown showcase in Cmd+K. Updates no longer reload a page you're in the middle of, refreshing to update keeps any unsaved edit, and this changelog now lives under What's new.
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Steadier under your fingers
Care you mostly won't notice, which is the point. Reloading or saving can no longer overwrite something newer you just typed, and the preview now waits until you switch back to Read instead of rebuilding with every keystroke, so long documents stay smooth to edit. Dark mode no longer flashes white on launch, headings appear the moment you land on them, the keyboard focus ring is easy to spot, and faint text is easier to read in both themes. Untitled notes now borrow their name from the first heading.
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More ways to ask
OpenRouter joins Groq and Ollama, so you can bring your own key for almost any model. Settings now checks your provider when it opens and shows whether it's ready, without sending a single prompt. Mindmaps built with Groq cope better with long documents, and your API keys are no longer stored alongside everyday preferences.
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A quieter toolbar
The toolbar was rebuilt around a single choice: Read or Edit. Reading tools moved into a small dock at the bottom that steps aside while you scroll, and everything else now lives in one tidy menu. The top bar shows how long a document takes to read, untitled notes can be renamed right where their name appears, and frontmatter at the top of a file becomes a clean document header instead of a block of YAML.
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Straight from Pagecrumb
Pagecrumb, the TinyCrafts extension that turns any web page into clean Markdown, can now hand that page straight to MarkV. It opens ready to read, and if anything goes wrong along the way, MarkV says so plainly instead of leaving you guessing.
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Take it with you
Documents can now leave MarkV as a clean PDF or a Markdown file, and the export button remembers which one you prefer. CSV files open as tidy sheets with a header row that stays put, and selecting text offers a one-click Copy. Diagrams moved to a new renderer that draws flowcharts, sequences and data models more crisply, and command palette results are grouped. Visit counting moved to GoatCounter, which works without cookies.
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A keystroke away
Press Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) to search your files and drafts or run any command, with each shortcut shown beside it. The editor learned the usual formatting shortcuts too. Six reading palettes arrived, Original, Ivory, Manila, Cloud, Slate and Garden, each tuned for comfortable contrast, and the outline beside the text now scrolls along with you.
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Find your way around
A new rail beside the text shows the document's outline and follows you as you read, along with a small map of how the note links to others in your folder. Mindmaps gained search and an inspector for each idea. In Edit, an insert menu adds ready-made diagrams, tables, callouts and checklists. Notes started from scratch are now kept as drafts that survive a restart, and MarkV got a fresh icon.
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Better on small screens
On phones, the toolbar now folds its extra actions into a tidy More sheet. Folders in Files can be collapsed and expanded, all at once if you like, long documents get a quick way back to the top, and long file names are shortened more gracefully.
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Install it, take it offline
MarkV can now be installed like an app and keeps working without a connection. Share links became much shorter, and diagrams follow your light or dark theme properly.
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Bring your folders
Open a folder and every Markdown file in it appears in Files, ready to read. Browsers that can't open folders directly can import a copy instead. Edits can be saved back to the file, any document can be shared as a link that carries the whole note inside it with no server in between, and Read and Edit sit in one simple toggle. Motion across the app became calmer and more consistent, and it respects your reduced-motion setting.
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Mindmaps, if you want them
Turn any document into a concept mindmap: its main ideas laid out on a map you can pan, zoom and click to jump back to the matching section. It runs on Ollama on your own computer or with a Groq key, set up from a new AI settings drawer, and maps are cached so reopening one is instant. MarkV also added a word count and tightened its security so the page only runs code it trusts.
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Reading and writing in step
GitHub-style alerts and task lists render properly. MarkV now maps every line of your source to the page you see, so moving between Edit and Read keeps your place. A small floating toolbar helps with formatting while you write, and the mode switch got clearer icons and better keyboard focus.
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Hello, MarkV
MarkV started as a single page with one job: open a Markdown file and make it pleasant to read. It arrived with calm serif typography, light and dark themes, diagrams and maths, and nothing to sign up for.