Spectral Colors · free app · Windows
Markdown,
worth reading.
Most Markdown files are written to be read once and skimmed. Sparks Markdown typesets them instead — the structure you wrote, laid out the way it deserves, in a window that gets out of the way.
Windows 10 / 11 · v0.1.3 · 1.3 MB · free forever, no payment
What it does
Typeset, not dumped
Headings, tables, quotes, footnotes and task lists land on a measured column that is comfortable to read for a long time.
Code you can take
Syntax colour for around forty languages, and a copy button on every block.
Light and dark
Plus a sans or serif reading face and a normal or wide column, remembered between sessions.
Follows the file
Change the document in another program and the reader reloads it, so it can sit open beside an editor.
A library, not a list
Everything you have opened, the ones you star, and projects you can file documents under — a project is a label, so the file never moves.
It finds what you moved
Rename a document, edit it, drop it in another folder, and the library follows it there. It remembers who a file is, not just where it was.
Contents that keep up
A table of contents that follows your scrolling, and a reading progress line along the top.
Yours alone
No network, no telemetry, no account inside the app. It opens the file and nothing else.
Why it is free
It came out of the workshop.
Sparks Markdown was built alongside Sparks of Ora'Kai, for reading the notes, drafts and working documents that a long project produces. It was useful enough to keep, so it is here.
The app is free and stays free. The account is only so there is somewhere to tell you when the next thing is ready.
The details
- Platform
- Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. macOS is coming.
- Version
- 0.1.3
- Size
- 1.3 MB
- Opens
- .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd, .txt
- Privacy
- No network access, no telemetry, no account inside the app.
- SHA-256
160BFBD7F8E87BD0AE5982198B4209AD0A2C57E977CE64D6D3AE389589FAB982
The installer is unsigned for now, so Windows may show a SmartScreen notice the first time. Choose More info and then Run anyway, or check the SHA-256 above against the file you downloaded.