Markdown, PDF and EPUB reader for MacAI made the file. Now make sense of it, on one calm, clear page.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Machines write Markdown. Humans read it. Here are the three moments in between, and what they feel like now.
Where did it even save this?
Claude says /tmp/. Claude Code says ~/.claude/plans. Five minutes in Finder, every time.
Quotes, ~/ and :142 on the end are fine. The file your AI just made is already waiting in Latest from your AI.
Is this a table or a fence?
Pipes and dashes are not a table. Your eyes know it, and they check out halfway across the row.
Real headings, tables that line up and diagrams in colour. Pick a reading profile, or press Read aloud and just listen.
I just need to change one line.
Copy it into Notion, fix the date, copy it back, hope nothing broke. For one date.
Change a line and it saves to the same file. Leave notes as you read, then send them all in one message. See what changed, then save it as Word or PDF.
Pick a reading profile and a look. Neuro-friendly, Large Print, Compact and Paragraph Focus are all free.
The standard page: lighter headings and generous spacing.
Every theme styles the title, headings, lists and tables for you. Pro adds 27 more themes and your own.
Owner: Maya · Status: draft
Ship name search first, then reading profiles. Keep the reader fast on big files, and check the launch notes before Friday.
Notarising can take a day. Book it early, and keep a build ready for review.
I’m a visual person. I love AI (mostly), and every day it hands me a mountain of documents I need to read and decide on, fast. But when that mountain is a wall of asterisks and pound signs, my brain just… slides right off it.
Raw markdown looks like code soup to me. I need to see the headings. I need the table to be a table. And for a long time I was too embarrassed to admit that, because everyone around me seemed fine.
Then I lost a client presentation. Four minutes hunting for the file, pasting it into a Google Doc, then fixing the formatting by hand, while they watched. That was the day I stopped pretending and built the thing I needed.
It started as a simple markdown reader. It didn’t stay one. I wanted to edit, not just read. I wanted to move between .md, .txt, .docx and PDF without thinking about it. I wanted to open a whole folder, type half a filename and land on the right doc, then breeze through a 300-page file without losing my place.
I wanted One Clear Reader. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I’ve enjoyed making it.
Tell us what you love and what drives you mad. We read every note, and we’re building this to be exceptional.
Founder, One Clear Reader · visual thinker, recovering file-fumbler
Typora, Obsidian and VS Code are great at what they're for. One Clear Reader covers the whole trip: find the file AI made, read it, review it, fix it and hand it on.
See the full comparisonEvery feature is free for 30 days, no card. After that, reading and search stay free forever.
Open the .md file in One Clear Reader and it shows as a formatted page: real headings, tables that line up, and no # or ** symbols. Double-click it, drag it onto the app, or paste its path. The file stays a .md file on your Mac.
To make every .md file open this way, click Make this my default .md reader on the welcome screen.
One Clear Reader opens Markdown (.md), plain text (.txt), Word (.docx), PDF, EPUB, web pages (.html) and spreadsheets (.csv and .tsv). Markdown and text files can be edited. Pro can also edit the words in Word files.
One Clear Reader has free reading profiles made for this: Neuro-friendly uses the Atkinson Hyperlegible font with extra letter, word and line spacing and a soft cream page. Paragraph Focus shows one paragraph at a time. Large Print makes everything bigger. Pro adds a Custom profile with your own font and spacing.
No. One Clear Reader reads, converts and saves your files on your Mac. It has no account and never uploads document contents. It only goes online to check a licence key and to check once a day for updates, which you can turn off.
Yes, there is a free version with no time limit: reading, search, paste a path, Latest from your AI and Markdown editing. Every Pro feature is free for 30 days, no card needed.
Pro is $19.99 a year, or $59 once for lifetime. At launch, lifetime is $29 for the first 500 buyers. One personal licence covers 3 of your Apple devices, like your laptop and your desktop. It all runs on your own devices, so your files stay yours. Mac today; iPhone and iPad are coming soon.
One Clear Reader needs macOS 13 or later on a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer).
More questions? Visit Help or read the guides.
Paste one AI file path. If it doesn’t feel like relief, delete it. No account, nothing to cancel.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Pick a file you might get from AI, or paste your own. Left is the raw .md. Right is the same content in One Clear Reader.
Every one of these is a real file on your Mac, rendered locally, still a .md you can hand back to AI.
Every feature is free for 30 days, no card. After that, reading and search stay free forever.
Every feature is free for 30 days, no card. After that, reading and search stay free forever.
