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I built a Markdown reader for Android because every one I tried sucked
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I built a Markdown reader for Android because every one I tried sucked

via Dev.toJson1mo ago

The problem nobody talks about I use Markdown for everything. Notes in Obsidian, documentation, ChatGPT exports, random .md files people send me. On my laptop, life is good — VS Code, Typora, whatever. Files look great. Then I try to open the same file on my Android phone. And it's... bad. Every app I found falls into one of these categories: Full editors — I don't want to edit a README on my phone. I want to READ it. Ugly renderers — Monospace font, no syntax highlighting, looks like 2005. "Create an account to continue" — No thanks. The file manager approach — Opens as raw text. Cool, I love reading ## Heading with my eyes. So I built MarkDeck MarkDeck is a Markdown reader for Android. Emphasis on reader — it doesn't edit, it doesn't sync, it doesn't need an account. You open a .md file and it renders it nicely. That's the whole thing. What it does: • Opens from anywhere — tap a .md file in your file manager, email, browser downloads, whatever. MarkDeck handles it. • Clean rendering

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