Gloss
Opens to read. Edits when you ask.
A distraction-free markdown reader for macOS and VS Code — like Preview.app, but for markdown.
Gloss opens your markdown to read — clean typography, rendered Mermaid diagrams and KaTeX math, nothing between you and the words. When you do want to change something, one keystroke (⇧⌘E) flips to a live-preview editor, and one keystroke flips back.
- The reader is free. All of it — rendering, live reload, Quick Look, find-in-page, print & PDF export, and the editor. On your Mac and in VS Code.
- Pro is $9.99, once. Open a whole folder as a vault: sidebar, full-text search, wiki-links and backlinks, and a graph of how your notes connect. No subscription, ever.
- Private by architecture. No telemetry, no account, no cloud. Your notes never leave your machine.
The VS Code extension is free today. The Mac app is headed to the Mac App Store — a free download, with Pro as a one-time unlock.
Pricing
Free
$0 free forever
The complete reader.
- Beautiful rendering — code, Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math
- Live-preview editor one keystroke away (⇧⌘E)
- Quick Look — spacebar any .md in Finder
- Live reload, find-in-page, print & PDF export
- Dark & light themes that follow your system
- VS Code extension included — also free
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Pro
$9.99 one-time
No subscription, ever.
Turn a folder of notes into a knowledgebase.
- Everything in Free
- Vault sidebar — open a whole folder of notes
- Full-text search across every file
- Wiki-links and backlinks between notes
- Link graph — see how your notes connect
- Outline, frontmatter & tags inspector
- Favorites, recents & font size control