About

Most markdown readers treat text like code. Magzdown treats it like print — with curated typography, thoughtful spacing, and magazine-style layouts that make long-form reading enjoyable.

AI agents produce a growing amount of markdown — research reports, documentation, code reviews, summaries. Magzdown was built to give those files the reading experience they deserve, so you can review them comfortably instead of squinting at raw text or a plain GitHub render.

Import any markdown — drop a file, paste a URL, clip from the web, or type it in. Magzdown renders it with your choice of style preset, color theme, fonts, and layout. Switch between a continuous scroll or a page-by-page paginated view. Mermaid code blocks render as interactive diagrams and charts — click one to enlarge it. Everything is designed to get out of the way and let you read.

Eight presets, each built on the typography of a real magazine genre: literary Classic, graphic Modern, art-directed Editorial, Swiss Minimal, fashion-glossy Couture, news-weekly Gazette, and tech-magazine Pulse — all free — plus the music-magazine Headliner, a heavy slab display that ships with Pro.

The details come along for free too. A first italic line becomes the deck under your headline, YAML frontmatter becomes a byline with reading time, footnotes move into the margin on wide screens, paginated mode gets print-style running heads and page folios, and body text can be set ragged or justified with proper hyphenation. Drop caps, small-caps openers, and true italics are on by default where the preset calls for them.

Switch to review mode to highlight text in four colors and attach inline comments. Highlights persist per-article in your browser's local storage. When you're done, export everything as formatted markdown with one click.

Export any article as a beautifully typeset PDF that matches your current theme, font, and color scheme — or as a reflowable EPUB with a cover page and linked table of contents for e-readers like Kindle and Apple Books.

The Magzdown Clipper extension for Chrome and Firefox lets you clip any web article into your library with one click. It extracts the article content, shows a preview with the title and word count, and saves it directly — no copy-pasting needed. The extension is free.

Magzdown is also an official Obsidian community plugin. It opens a reading pane beside your editor and mirrors the active note live — write on one side, read a typeset magazine page on the other. Frontmatter flows into the byline, and your preset, theme, and layout choices apply. Install it from Community plugins by searching for "Magzdown".

Everything is stored locally in your browser. Your articles, your settings, your reading progress — none of it leaves your device or reaches any server. There are no accounts, no cloud sync, and no tracking of your content.

The only network request Magzdown makes is when you fetch a markdown file by URL — and even then, the content is saved to your browser's local storage, not ours.

These shortcuts are available in the reader view:

On touch devices, swipe left or right to navigate between pages in paginated mode.