Open a folder of Markdown. Get a workspace.

MD Reader renders diagrams, maths and runnable code, reads scanned pages, and — with Premium — answers questions from your notes, builds flashcards and timed tests, photographs handwriting into Markdown, and exports to PDF, Word, slides and EPUB. All from a folder on your disk: nothing uploads unless you turn on cloud sync.

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What the free app does

Opens a folder, not a library

Point it at a directory of .md files. No import, no proprietary vault format, no copy of your notes in someone's database.

Renders the hard parts

Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX maths, syntax-highlighted code, charts and tables — rendered locally, including offline.

Runs code in the document

Fenced blocks execute in a sandboxed frame, so a runnable note stays a note rather than becoming a project.

Reads scanned pages

OCR runs on your own hardware. An image of a page becomes text without it leaving the machine.

Works with no account

The app never asks you to sign in. Every feature on this list is free, with no account — an account exists only to buy the optional cloud subscription.

Bring your own AI key (BYOK)

Use an Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini key of your own and pay your provider directly. We never see the traffic.

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Every platform, one codebase

Every build comes from the same tagged commit. Desktop installers are signed; the mobile apps come from their stores.

Windows

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Windows 10 and later, 64-bit.

macOS

Coming soon.
Apple silicon and Intel.

Linux

Coming soon.
AppImage and .deb, built on Ubuntu 22.04.

Android

Coming soon to Google Play.
Android 7.0 and later.

iOS & iPadOS

Coming soon to the App Store.
iOS 14 and later.

Premium

What a subscription unlocks

Six capabilities, built into the same app — plus cloud storage and sync, so your notes and your progress follow you across devices.

Scan notes to Markdown

Photograph handwritten or printed pages — a vision model transcribes them into one clean Markdown note, headings, tables and maths intact.

Study packs

A summary, flashcards and a timed test, generated from your own notes — revision material that actually matches what you wrote.

AI assistant

Ask questions, rewrite, summarise and draft — right in the document, with the built-in service or your own API key.

Search a whole folder

Index a folder of notes and search it by meaning, not just words — answers come back with citations to the files they came from.

Export anywhere

Turn a note into a PDF, a Word document, a slide deck or an EPUB e-book — formatting, tables and images intact.

Cloud & Google Drive

Store notes in the cloud, keep them in sync on every device you own, and open from or save straight to Google Drive.

Pricing

The app is free. Premium is the product.

One subscription unlocks everything above — scan to Markdown, study packs, the AI assistant, folder search, exports, cloud storage and sync — on every platform.

You do not need any of this to read Markdown. Opening local files, rendering, search, code execution, OCR and export are the free application on every platform, with no account and no time limit.

Prices are in Indian rupees and include applicable taxes. Payments on this site are processed by Razorpay. Subscriptions bought inside the Android or iOS app are billed by Google Play or Apple instead, and are managed in that store's own subscription settings.

FAQ

Questions

Where are my files?

Where you left them. The app reads the folder you choose; it does not copy your notes anywhere unless you turn on cloud storage.

Is there a web version?

No. MD Reader is a desktop and mobile application. This site sells and distributes it — it does not run it.

Can I cancel?

Yes. A subscription bought here is a fixed term that simply ends; there is no auto-renewal to cancel and no charge after it lapses. If you want to stop early, we refund the unused days pro rata — see Terms & refunds.

I bought it in the app.

Then it is managed by Google Play or Apple. Sign in with the same account here and the subscription shows up either way.