CHANGELOG

What's new in Reader.md

Every release ships through the app's own Sparkle updater — so you're always one relaunch from the latest. Notable changes, newest first.

v1.10.0 · latestAll releases on GitHub ↗

1.11.0

LATESTJul 15, 2026
IMPROVED
  • Softer tooltips — hovering a button now shows a small rounded bubble that matches the app's chrome, in place of the yellow system tooltip.
  • The Standard theme now matches GitHub — Standard adopts GitHub's exact colours for text, borders, and code, so it reads like github.com in both light and dark. The separate "GitHub" theme added in 1.10.0 is gone — Standard replaces it, and anyone who had GitHub selected is moved to Standard automatically.

1.10.0

Jul 14, 2026
ADDED
  • Resume where you stopped — reopening a long file returns you to the place you left off. A document you barely started, or one you finished, still opens at the top.
  • A GitHub reading theme — the content pane can now wear GitHub's palette, fonts, and code colours, alongside Standard, Editorial, and Terminal.

1.9.0

Jul 13, 2026
ADDED
  • New sidebar shortcuts — ⌘B toggles the file sidebar and ⇧⌘B the outline, matching the rest of the Mac.
  • A close button on the open document — a floating × in the top-right corner, the visible form of ⌘W.
IMPROVED
  • The empty screen is clickable — open a file, add a folder, quick-open, or jump to the sidebar filter by clicking the row.
  • The sidebar reveals what you open, expanding folders down to the file instead of leaving it hidden in a collapsed tree.
FIXED
  • The × on a Recents row removes the entry again (it had briefly closed the file instead).

1.8.0

Jul 13, 2026
ADDED
  • Full-width reading column — three widths (Narrow, Wide, Full Width) instead of a narrow/wide toggle. Full Width stops wide tables and code blocks scrolling sideways; ⇧⌘\ cycles them.

1.7.1

Jul 13, 2026
IMPROVED
  • You can close a document now — ⌘W closes the open file and leaves the window up. File → Close and the sidebar / Recents context menus do the same.
FIXED
  • reader opened a new window on every invocation instead of reusing the one already open.

1.7.0

Jul 12, 2026
ADDED
  • A reader command line tool — open a file, add a folder, add a remote, or pipe markdown straight into the app from your terminal.
  • Add Remote Folder… in the File menu, reachable with the sidebar collapsed. New shortcuts: ⇧⌘A adds a folder, ⌥⌘A a remote.
IMPROVED
  • The window uses the native macOS toolbar, so on macOS 26 it reads as real Liquid Glass with capsule controls.
  • Update prompts now show what changed instead of a blank pane.
FIXED
  • The find field is disabled when no document is open, and ⌘F focuses it reliably.

1.6.0

Jul 10, 2026
ADDED
  • Find in Page — highlights every match, shows a live “N of M” count, and steps through matches with ⌘G / ⇧⌘G.
  • Reading themes — Standard, Editorial, or Terminal, each with its own typography, accent, and syntax highlighting, persisted across launches.
  • Footnotes render as a linked, styled section at the end of the document.
IMPROVED
  • Links follow your macOS accent colour in the Standard theme, updating live when you change it or switch light/dark.
  • The topbar follows macOS Preview — the find bar now lives in the topbar. Find in Page moved to ⌘F; Filter Files to ⇧⌘F.
FIXED
  • Drag and drop now works with a document open, and shows a drop target.
  • The find bar and quick-open fields take keyboard focus immediately, instead of needing a click first.

1.5.0

Jul 8, 2026
ADDED
  • Remote (SSH) folders — add a remote folder and Reader.md syncs it read-only to a local cache via rsync.
  • Help menu — FAQ, a keyboard-shortcut cheatsheet (⌘/), and release notes.

1.4.0

Jul 8, 2026
ADDED
  • Annotations — highlight a selection and attach a note, with resolvable comment threads.
  • Liquid Glass topbar buttons on macOS 26 (Tahoe).
FIXED
  • Markup popover UX — positioning, alignment, and click handling.

1.3.2

Jul 7, 2026
ADDED
  • Auto-update via Sparkle, delivered as a DMG installer.
  • About panel with version info.
IMPROVED
  • YAML frontmatter renders as a clean key/value table.

1.2.0

Jul 7, 2026
ADDED
  • Drop files onto the window body; manage recent files.
  • Open single files, drag-and-drop, and register as the default markdown handler.
IMPROVED
  • Root folders collapse in the sidebar by default; scan hidden folders and reorder roots by drag.

1.0.0

INITIALJul 6, 2026

The first native macOS build — a SwiftUI shell around a bundled WKWebView renderer.

ADDED
  • Mermaid, LaTeX, and syntax highlighting via bundled JS engines — fully offline.
  • Live reload, outline, quick open, and PDF export.

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