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mdr

A lightweight Markdown viewer with live reload and multiple rendering backends.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: Markdown support and command-line use.

Services and protocols mentioned: SSH.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A lightweight Markdown viewer with live reload and multiple rendering backends” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “It reloads the document as it changes on disk, renders Mermaid diagrams to SVG natively rather than through a headless browser, and offers three backends: a native window (gui), the system webview (web), and a…” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

mdr is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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