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Positive experience60.0% of reviews
Neutral20.0% of reviews
Negative experience20.0% of reviews

~ Based on 10 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Telescopo Safe?

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Is Telescopo Legit?

Telescopo appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Telescopo is 65/100.

Based on 65 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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Bait and switch?

I bought this outright, and now you’re rent-seeking me?
SSirLexelot

Response from developer

Hello! Apologies, there was a small bug in 7.1.3 that might have caused the issue. We've released v8 which adds a substantial number of features to both the free and paid tiers of Telescopo. We hope you check it out and consider a fresh review if you are satisfied.

Solid Markdown viewer /editor

Honesty up front, I do a lot more viewing than editing in the app, but it does work well for what I’ve needed from both. The multiple themes, etc. are great.

One small hiccup I keep running into (the reason for 4 stars instead of 5). I have Telescopo set as my default Markdown app. When using the command line to call `open` on a markdown file, Telescopo will launch if it wasn’t running, but something about that causes it to ignore the file that was requested. Calling the exact same `open` command a second time will properly open the file.
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LGLow Gravitas

Response from developer

Hello, we've recently released v8 which fully resolves this issue and adds a substantial number of new features. We hope these features can earn an updated 5-star review!

Great for AI Markdown Files

This is a fantastic way to review markdown files created by agents like architectures, diagrams and the like. Much easier to use than what’s out there. Thanks for making this!
KKG2254326

Response from developer

thank you for the feedback, much appreciated!

A Truly Useful Markdown Companion

I’ve tried many Markdown editors, but this one stands out. It’s smooth, handles diagrams and math beautifully, and PDF export is top-notch. Perfect for real work on macOS. Highly recommended.
MMan.Osm

Response from developer

We've updated our app to v8 and have added a substantial number of new features, and in particular we've vastly improved our PDF export capabilities. We hope you enjoy these updates, thank you for supporting Telescopo!

Looks very promising.

I installed this and gave it a look. Looks very promising. They need to disable or gate or fix the Latex section detection, for financial markdown, the turn stuff starting with $ into a “Latex - upgrade to pro” advertisement, which is gross. But if they make this switchable, and even better off by default, this would be a great program for me.
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CCameron909

Response from developer

Hello! Your feedback has been heard loud and clear. Telescopo v8 now supports LaTeX and Mermaid along with a substantial number of other features on the free tier. The paid tier unlocks our advanced editing functionality and many other advanced features. We hope this earns an updated review!

Cant create new documents here

This is a major graph. I dont like this
KKumarSubr

Response from developer

Hello KumarSubr, please consider sending us a message on our Telescopo support portal, we love feedback from our users. I'm happy to report that with the latest update, we now have an editor and new document creation tool that features 200 starter Markdown templates to help you get started. Our editor also has powerful quick insertion features to help simplify the time it takes to create diagrams and complex Markdown. I hope you will consider checking out the latest version and consider updating your review if it meets your needs!

Great Tool and even more Awesome Developer

I am using Telescopo to read the MD files I am using LLM’s to create. They look beautiful in this UI. Awesome job with this tool.

When I found couple of minor issues with the Application and raised tickets, the developer was on top of it and fixed them quickly. This kind of passionate turnaround is great to see in todays day and age.

Thanks again for building this tool and more importantly for the great support.
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PParamR

Response from developer

Thank you for your wonderful feedback! The issues you raised on our support channel were so helpful to us in making this product better. The new update is live and fully addresses these edge cases in making Markdown support even more robust. We appreciate the support!

Great viewer, not good for export

I got this program because it could view markdown and mermaid. It does well with this, but the main thing I needed was to print or export to a PDF. When I do this, the mermaid images are not available. So it is not very usable for me. I had to pay to find out the feature I needed doesn’t work.
JJelloskins

Response from developer

We have recently released v8 and substantially updated our PDF export functionality. Not only do we have precise live previews, but we support Mermaid diagrams, images, inserting manual page breaks, customized headers and footers and landscape mode in addition to different paper sizes. We hope you enjoy this major update, and if Telescopo now meets your needs, please consider updating your review. Thank you for your support!

Fast, clean viewer for docs and code

I bought this back when it was called Smackdown for 5 bucks. It did Markdown well. The Telescopo update is huge, and existing users got it free.

On my MacBook Air M2, big PDFs open instantly. A 500 page manual pops open with no spinner. EPUBs show proper chapters and fonts. My Python and Rust files have clean syntax highlighting. Mermaid and PlantUML diagrams render exactly like in my docs. Search is quick and Enter jumps to the next hit. Shortcuts are everywhere and consistent.

Tabs and multi window support are excellent. I keep a long PDF in one window and flip through notes in a tabbed window, and it all feels native and smooth. The cyberpunk theme is great for late night reading.

So far it has handled everything I tried: md, pdf, epub, swift, rust, py, json.

Small wish: add annotation and highlighting for PDFs and EPUBs, and consider LaTeX diagram support in the future.

If you read docs or code on a Mac, this is an easy 5 stars. Telescopo turned a niche viewer into a fast, polished tool without charging me again.
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CJCave Johnston

Response from developer

Thank you for your fantastic feedback. We have heard your suggestions and are adding a homegrown beautiful LaTeX rendering engine to the app this week along with a lot more features and enhancements. Thanks for your support!

Can’t select .md files

I was a bit surprised that I couldn't select files with the suffix ".md" in the file selection dialog.
Qqin.w

Response from developer

Hello! Thank you for the review. This has been fully fixed in the latest release. We've got a lot of amazing new features coming soon. I hope you would consider updating your review to 5 stars if you enjoy our app, thank you kindly!