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Tinta

Tinta is a fast, lightweight markdown viewer and reader for Windows, built with Direct2D and DirectWrite for hardware-accelerated text rendering. It's a single portable executable under 1 MB that starts in about 200 ms — no Electron, no bundled browser, no installer.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

Platforms

  • Windows
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  3.  Markdown preview
  4.  Keyboard Shortcuts
  5.  Mermaid support

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  • bnchndlr liked Tinta
  • tuva-hayabi reviewed Tinta  

    Tinta is very small and does not need an installation, because the downloaded executable file runs out of the box.

    The preferences include some (light and dark) themes and some useful other options like setting the text width. F11 fortunately works for full-screen view (which is not always the case with free software). And you can export as HTML, PDF or DOCX.

    Too bad: I could not find a way to set the font family or font size. But the text is scalable at least.

    But I have to say: This is a...

  • sterno900 added Keyboard Shortcuts as a feature to Tinta
  • sterno900 added Markdown preview as a feature to Tinta
  • sterno900 added Support for Keyboard Shortcuts as a feature to Tinta
  • sterno900 reviewed Tinta  

    So fast and so light

  • sterno900 liked Tinta
  • niksavc liked Tinta
  • oipoistar added Tinta
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    oipoistar added Tinta as alternative to Typora, MarkText, Zettlr and Clearly Markdown + 5 similar activities

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GitHub repository

  •  170 Stars
  •  21 Forks
  •  0 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Tinta, and it has gotten 3 likes

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
tuva-hayabi
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Tinta is very small and does not need an installation, because the downloaded executable file runs out of the box.

The preferences include some (light and dark) themes and some useful other options like setting the text width. F11 fortunately works for full-screen view (which is not always the case with free software). And you can export as HTML, PDF or DOCX.

Too bad: I could not find a way to set the font family or font size. But the text is scalable at least.

But I have to say: This is a reader only, not an editor, which kind of makes it unnecessary for me.

Mark
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So fast and so light

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What is Tinta?

Tinta is a fast, lightweight markdown viewer and reader for Windows, built with Direct2D and DirectWrite for hardware-accelerated text rendering. It's a single portable executable under 1 MB that starts in about 200 ms — no Electron, no bundled browser, no installer.

Designed to be the double-click default for .md files: 10 themes (5 light, 5 dark, including an OLED-friendly pure black), native Mermaid flowchart rendering, first-class CJK text layout, internal anchor links with GitHub-compatible heading slugs, table of contents, folder browser, full-text search, rich tables, text selection, zoom, drag & drop, and an edit mode with live preview.

Free and open source, MIT licensed. Also available on the Microsoft Store, winget, and Scoop.