Glow
Reads Markdown files in a terminal with proper formatting, and finds them for you in the current directory or git repository.
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3 more ways to get Glow
Package managers
- Chocolatey
choco install glow - Homebrew
brew install glow - Snap Store
snap install glow
About Glow
Glow renders Markdown in a terminal with styled headings, lists, tables and code blocks instead of raw asterisks. Run it with no arguments and it opens a file browser that finds Markdown files in the current directory and below, or across the repository if you are in one.
It has a pager with the keybindings you already know from `less`, and a command-line mode for piping formatted output into something else, with a width flag for wrapping. It is part of the Charm set of terminal tools, packaged widely and available as Debian, RPM and Alpine packages as well as binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
Strengths
- Finds Markdown files in the current directory tree or the whole git repository on its own
- Pager keybindings match less, so there is nothing new to learn
- Also works as a formatter in a pipeline with a width flag
- Packaged for Debian, RPM and Alpine plus binaries for five operating systems
Limitations
- Reading only; it does not edit
- Terminal rendering cannot show images
- Colour output depends on the terminal supporting it
- Complex HTML embedded in Markdown renders poorly
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT licence.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- Charmbracelet
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Reading a project's README or your own notes without leaving the terminal
- Categories
- CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Dev Tools); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.