Dawn vs Markdown Viewer Mobile

Dawn is the calm, beautiful place to read Markdown on your iPhone. These days your AI assistant answers in Markdown — headings, lists, code, tables. On a phone, that usually shows up as a wall of raw symbols. Open it in Dawn and it becomes a page worth reading: clean margins, real hierarchy, a comfortable line length, and type set the way a good book is. And it isn't only AI. Your notes, your READMEs, your documents — any .md file reads beautifully here. No editing chrome, no clutter, just the words. WHAT DAWN RENDERS • Full CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown • Syntax-highlighted code blocks that collapse out of the way • Tables that scroll sideways instead of breaking • Math, written in LaTeX and set with KaTeX • Diagrams, drawn from Mermaid • Task lists, nested quotes, footnotes, and frontmatter — folded into a tidy Properties strip BUILT FOR READING • Pinch to size the text exactly how you like it • Light, dark, and automatic themes • An outline you can open to jump between headings • A slim progress line so you always know where you are • A measured column width that keeps long lines easy on the eyes YOUR FILES, YOUR WAY • Open Markdown straight from the Files app or iCloud Drive • Send a web link from Safari and Dawn fetches and renders it • Recent documents group themselves by Today, Yesterday, and This Week • Pin the ones you keep coming back to, and search across names and contents SHARE BEAUTIFULLY Select any passage and share it as plain text, as Markdown, or as a polished image card with syntax highlighting — ready for Messages, X, or anywhere else. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-in, no tracking. Your files stay on your device, and nothing you read is sent anywhere. Everything renders on-device, so Dawn works with or without a connection. Requires iPhone with iOS 17 or later.

MarkdownViewer is a distraction-free reader for .md files on iPhone and iPad. Open a file from Files, AirDrop, or a shared link; or sync an entire documentation repository from GitHub and read it offline. Just exploring? The app ships with a curated library of example documents covering every feature below — sync it with one tap from the "Try it" card on the library screen. RICH RENDERING • Full CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown • Mermaid diagrams rendered inline • LaTeX math (inline and display) via KaTeX-compatible engine • Syntax-highlighted code blocks across 190+ languages • GFM tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough • GitHub-style admonitions (NOTE, WARNING, TIP, CAUTION) READING COMFORT • Material 3 design with light, dark, and sepia themes • Adjustable font size, reading width, and line height • Immersive scroll — the app bar fades away as you read • Table of contents drawer with one-tap navigation • In-document search with match counter • Reading-position bookmark — resume exactly where you left off • Keep-screen-on toggle for long-form reading • Reading time estimate BRING YOUR OWN DOCS • Sync any public GitHub repository with a single URL • Private repos supported via a personal access token (stored in the iOS Keychain — never in the app's database) • Incremental re-sync — only changed files download • Re-sync or remove a synced repo from the drawer EXPORT AND SHARE • Export any document to PDF with mermaid diagrams preserved • Share the raw markdown or a rendered PDF via the system share sheet PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No accounts, ever • Zero telemetry by default • Crash reporting is opt-in and excludes document content, file paths, and tokens • The only network traffic is to GitHub when you explicitly sync Made in the open on GitHub. Licensed under Apache-2.0.