About

spacebar is Quick Look for Markdown on the Mac, made by Pate Bryant (opens in a new tab), who reads CLAUDE.md files, plans and READMEs in Finder all day.

macOS shows Markdown as plain text. spacebar renders it, live and editable, behind the Space bar.

Free & Open Source

Free, with no subscription or in-app purchases. The app, installer and release builds are MIT licensed on GitHub (opens in a new tab). It installs with one Terminal command, not the Mac App Store.

Our Promise

No account, no analytics, no tracking, no upsells. Your files stay on your Mac.

Say Hello

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