Marked 2 - Markdown Preview App Reviews

Thank you Brett !

Thanks for providing such an easy way to view md files. I really like the app!

Very good viewer for markdown documents. Lots of good ideas like letting you use your familiar text editor and bringing forward the preview window as soon as you save the file in the editor. Clearly designed by someone who knows what is doing. A trial version (7 days) can be downloaded from the developer’s wesite.

This is fantastic program for finding ways to improve my work: its capability to highlight phrases in the passive voice, commonly overused words, and so forth, is extremely useful. It would be even better with full Pandoc integration, and perhaps a version that acted as a full text editor.

I highly recommend this app.

Table of Contents has the different styles in preview and exported

Marked is my go to app for previewing and converting Markdown files. I’m glad it’s finally here on the store!

I’ve been a Marked user for a long time. It’s an essential part of my workflow of Markdown note taking and doc writing. I’m a big fan of using it for GitHub rendering for README (and other in-repo) docs. But I’m thrilled that some of the advanced writer-helper features (passive voice, folder tracking) is now available in this version. Big thanks, Brett!

A well done app works as advertised and with all the other features it is well worth the price.

As a Vim user, Marked 2 is great for previewing Markdown documents. The GitHub style is great to preview what a README.md or other Markdown file will look like in its code repository. Some of the features I really like are : 1. Being able to choose either MultiMarkdown or Discount (GitHub’s parser). 2. Being able to validate all external URLs from a single command. 3. Being able to select whether or not line breaks are retained.

I mean, it’s a Brett Terpstra app. That should be enough. But really, if you work in Markdown, this app is insane. This isn’t meant to be a helpful review, becasue there’s just far too much to cover. There are reviews online to help you with that. This is simply a thank you to Brett for making such a fantatic tool that I’m glad to support. So, so good.

Brett’s given so many things to the community, it’s nice to have a chance to buy a tool to use for Markdown. The writing tools (statistics, readability) are great for polishing a document that needs to be perfect. Easy to use to format multiple ways. Definitely worth it if you use Markdown for writing and care about great writing.

This is the best markdown tool Ive found, and Ive tried several. Simple, but powerful. Perfect rendering of markdown and attractive exported formats. Responsive developer, active community.

Ghost images of the rendered text remain. Multiple bottom drawer options are broken, rendering incorrectly. Random crashes. Sad, because I really liked version 1. Hoping these many problems get solved, so I can update the rating.

Marked 2 must be used with a text editor, but this is a fantastic feature for me. I use Sublime Text 2 (which costs money) but M2 also coordinates well with TextWrangler (which is free). Use the text editor of your choice and easily convert Markdown files (and MultiMarkdown files) into HTML, or DOCX, or PDF files. There are a few apps out there that do what Marked 2 does, but for more money and greater inconvience. I bought this for the specificity and ease of use. To use you have to open Marked 2 and then open your Markdown editor through the app. Marked 2 is, at its core, a live HTML preview (with options for CSS changes) of the Markdown document you are working on (with other exporting and editing features). There is also a free 7 day trial on the Marked 2 website, but just remember to delete that if you decide to buy it from the app store. Reading through the documentation on the website is also a great help in finding all of the features of M2, such as the automatic generation of the Table of Contents.

I love this app !!!

When I reviewed version 2.4.8, I gave it 3 stars because the statistics functions didn’t really work. 2.4.9 now has fixed these functions, so I’m happy to bump it up to 5 stars.

I write ancient history: many notes, sections and subsections. I usually prefer to work directly in tex files (XeLaTeX) because I can insert references without opening Bibdesk, my bibliographic tool. But I often need a simpler, less code-heavy interface, when I’m writing notes, biographical chapters, etc. Ever since I discovered Pandoc and Marked 2, I find I can still insert bibliographic notes and footnotes very easily, and I can still make a .tex file or a pdf with Pandoc. But I really appreciate Marked 2’s flexibility and legibility: I can see my notes develop pretty much as they’ll look in the final pdf. If it is simpler writing, I can stay with .txt files and Marked 2. It was easy to adapt the .css style sheet I wanted to reflect the kind of headers and subheaders I prefer. All in all, a great tool that makes life simpler (with Pandoc and Markdown syntax), and helps appreciate the creative side of writing.

I have been using markdown with a variety of apps. I like marked 2 espically because its support for mathjax. The developer is quite helpful. I posted my question on the discussion forum. The developer replied me minutes latter.

I needed to write a document. I started with MS Word because thats the company standard, but became very frustrated because of Words awful handling of nested lists. Recomposing the document in Markdown and live-previewing it through Marked 2 was the best decision. Less truly is more: instead of fighting Words peculiarly wrong ideas about how my lists should be indented, I could just focus on my content. I could export my doc into HTML, PDF, and even into the godforsaken DOCX format that failed me. Biggest problem was occasional crashes of Marked 2. But since Marked 2 doesnt try to be my text editor, I never lost any data. All I needed to do is restart it -- and Marked 2 would even re-launch preview of the document I last opened. Seamless.