Marky

Markdown → Native Window

Built in Go with an embedded WebView (WebView2 on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux), Marky ships as a single ~6 MB binary per platform with no runtime to install on top of what modern systems already have. The source lives on GitHub.

GFM tables, task lists, autolinks, strikethrough
Syntax-highlighted fenced code blocks
Headings, blockquotes, images, horizontal rules
Auto dark-mode following your OS setting
Ctrl + wheel / Ctrl + + / − / 0 zoom
Resizable window, typography tuned for reading
Single-file binary, no runtime install required
Same source builds for Windows and Linux

Windows x64 Linux x64

v1.0.0 · ~6 MB binary · Windows needs WebView2 Runtime (pre-installed on Win11) · Linux needs libwebkit2gtk-4.1

Usage

# Open a markdown file
marky README.md

# Or associate .md files with marky for double-click support
# (Windows: Settings → Apps → Default apps → .md → marky)

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
`Ctrl + Wheel`	Zoom in / out smoothly.
`Ctrl + +`	Zoom in one step.
`Ctrl + −`	Zoom out one step.
`Ctrl + 0`	Reset zoom to 100%.

How it works

The markdown is parsed by goldmark (GFM-compliant, same extension set as GitHub), handed through Chroma for syntax highlighting on code blocks, and styled with a GitHub-inspired CSS embedded into the binary. The rendered HTML is then shown in the OS's native WebView — WebView2 (Edge/Chromium) on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux — so scrolling, zoom, and font rendering all feel like a real browser.

Because the whole UI is the system WebView, the binary is small and the rendering quality is high: real table layout, real CSS, real typography — no hand-rolled native text control trying to approximate it.