Legible
Markdown, made for reading.
The Mac app that turns any folder of markdown into a calm reading experience. Point it at your Obsidian vault, an export from Claude, a folder a colleague shared. It just reads.
You edit your notes in a tool built for editing. What about reading them?
Legible is for the other half of your week. The half where you go back, re-read, follow a thread, recover an idea you wrote down two months ago and almost forgot. It reads your whole vault as something you can actually sit down with.
Built for Obsidian.
Works with any markdown.
Legible renders Obsidian-Flavoured Markdown natively —
wikilinks, callouts, embeds and block references all read
exactly as you wrote them. Point it at any other folder of
.md files and it reads those too. Tool-specific
syntax from Logseq, Bear, NotePlan or Joplin shows as plain
markdown today; first-class support is coming in v0.2.
Built for reading.
The whole folder, not one file at a time. Live with your editor. Reading-first by design. Typography that reads like a book.
Open a folder, not a file.
Point Legible at your Obsidian vault, or any folder of markdown. Browse from the sidebar, jump between notes, search across everything with ⌘K. Works with Joplin, Logseq, NotePlan, or a folder you made yesterday.
Edit in one window. Read in the other.
Open Obsidian on the left, Legible on the right. Save a note,
watch it update. No reload, no plugin, no round trip. Works with
Obsidian, VS Code, vim, anything that saves .md to disk.
A reader, not an editor.
No edit toggle, no accidental keystrokes. The interface only knows how to read and navigate. Press z to drop the sidebar and read full-width. The chrome gets out of the way because reading isn't writing.
Typography that reads like a book.
Source Serif for the body. DM Sans for the chrome. Real italics, real small caps, real OpenType. Light, dark, sepia, and high-contrast reading modes. No configuration required.
One price. Yours.
Pay once. Own it. No subscription, no expiry, no per-vault upgrade fee.
14-day trial. No card up front.
- ✓ Every feature. Nothing held back.
- ✓ A year of updates included.
- ✓ No subscription. No account. No tenancy.
- ✓ Works offline. Your files never leave your Mac.
- ✓ Apple Silicon native.
No AI. Just your words.