Language-aware code block highlighting for every major language.

Renders images directly in the terminal using half-block characters. Works everywhere.

Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, pie charts, and Gantt charts as ASCII art.

Dark, Light, Dracula, Catppuccin, Nord, Tokyo Night, Gruvbox, Solarized. Or make your own.

Run ink . to browse and open markdown files in any directory.

Open several files at once and switch between them with Tab.

Full-text search with highlighted matches and jump-to-result navigation.

GitHub-style NOTE, TIP, WARNING, IMPORTANT, and CAUTION blocks.

[[page]] and [[page|text]] syntax for Obsidian vaults and wikis.

Turn any markdown file into slides with --slides.

Built in Rust. No runtime dependencies. Fast startup.

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What it does

Feature	ink	glow	mdcat	frogmouth
Interactive TUI	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Multi-tab	Yes	No	No	No
Search	Yes	No	No	No
Table of contents	Yes	No	No	Yes
Inline images	Yes	No	Yes	No
Mermaid diagrams	Yes	No	No	No
Wikilinks	Yes	No	No	No
File browser	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Themes	8	2	0	0
Watch mode	Yes	No	No	No
Presentation mode	Yes	No	No	No