glow
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Feb 10, 2026first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For anyone looking for a more general renderer, https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.”
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“I mostly use TUI markdown viewers that render the document via ANSI escape codes beautifully. Check out glow project.”
“Here's the one I use a lot”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Beautiful Markdown rendering in your terminal 1 mention
- Show HN: Shine – a terminal Markdown previewer and docs linter 1 mention
- Show HN: Tiny Markdown CLI renderer – Streaming, 10x faster, 2MB flat RAM 1 mention
- Stop Making TUIs 1 mention
- Why the heck are we still using Markdown? 1 mention
- Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings 1 mention
Also written as Glow. Data: glow.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“For anyone looking for a more general renderer, https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.”
“I assume from the name that Shine is inspired by [Glow](https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow), how is this different?”
“glow - the most popular cli renderer, was about 100x slower and used about 100x more RAM”
“glow for markdown reading”
“I mostly use TUI markdown viewers that render the document via ANSI escape codes beautifully. Check out glow project.”
“Here's the one I use a lot”