Release Notes

Two fixes: opening a file from Finder, and typography settings that wouldn't stick.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed opening a Markdown file from Finder giving you a second Mandrill window. Double-clicking a file — or using Open With — opened a whole new window that carried a copy of everything you already had open, leaving you with two windows showing the same files and the same folder. The file now opens as a tab in the window you already have, and that window comes to the front, even if you'd minimised it.
• Fixed your typography settings resetting every time you quit. The typeface, text size and reading width you picked in Settings — and the text size you set with Zoom In and Zoom Out — now stay put across launches, as they already did on iPhone and iPad.

A small fix-up release: selecting text in the reader, and unlocking Pro on a second Mac.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed selecting text with the mouse in the reading pane. Dragging across more than a line or two highlighted only a few thin strips of the text instead of everything you'd dragged over, which made it very hard to select anything.
• Fixed Mandrill Pro not unlocking on a second Mac until you quit and reopened the app. If your purchase arrived while Mandrill was already running — including through Family Sharing — the app now notices on its own.
• Restore Purchases now tells you what happened. It used to ask for your Apple ID and then sit there in silence whether it had worked, failed, or found nothing to restore.

A tidy-up release focused on the Mac sidebar and on not losing your work.

✨ New Features

• You can now close an open folder from the sidebar — there's an × on the workspace row, and a Close Folder option when you right-click it. Previously the only way out was opening a different folder.
• The sidebar now shows which files are open. An open file has a filled icon; hover it to reveal an × that closes it, or right-click and choose Close.
• If you've turned autosave off, Mandrill now asks before throwing away unsaved changes — when you close a file, close a folder, or quit — instead of discarding them silently.

⚡ Performance

• Typing in long documents is faster. Every keystroke was re-doing work for the whole document above what you could see, so the bigger the file and the further down you'd scrolled, the more each character cost.
• The find bar no longer scans a fresh copy of the whole document several times over while you type in it.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the formatting shortcuts — ⌘B, ⌘I and the rest — only working while the format bar was showing. They now work whenever you're typing in the editor, bar or no bar.
• Fixed text shifting under the cursor while you select it in the Single Editor. Selecting across bold, italic, code, or highlighted text made the line reflow mid-drag, so the selection never quite landed where you meant.
• Fixed the selection highlight not matching the selection when it spanned several lines.
• Fixed Shift+arrow appearing to do nothing when crossing the markers around bold or italic text — it now steps past them in one press.
• Fixed closing a folder leaving its files open. The folder's files now close with it, while files you opened on their own stay put.
• Fixed edits in one tab cancelling an unsaved edit in another, which could quietly lose the second tab's changes.
• Fixed the sidebar collapsing itself when you closed the last file or folder — it now stays open, showing your recent files.
• Fixed the search field moving above or below the separator depending on whether a folder was open.
• Fixed the check for whether Mandrill is your default Markdown viewer never returning an answer.
• Fixed the Pro unlock not clearing if a purchase was later refunded.

Introducing Mandrill Pro

Mandrill Pro is a one-time $4.99 purchase on the Mac that unlocks GitHub repositories, the Single Editor, and the extra themes. Buy it once and it's yours — no subscription. Restore it any time from Settings.

Everything else stays free: reading, editing, folders, and working with local Git repositories — including committing and pushing with Sync — cost nothing, and the System, Mandrill Light and Mandrill Dark themes are included.

On iPhone and iPad everything is already included in the app you bought. There is nothing extra to purchase, and a Mac purchase is separate from the iOS app.

New features

• Pro — Browse, edit and sync GitHub repositories directly from the Mac app, with no local clone. Open a repo from the sidebar, edit files, and push changes back, matching what was already possible on iOS.
• Pro — Four extra themes: Molokai, Material Light, Material Dark and Spacegrey, alongside the free System, Mandrill Light and Mandrill Dark.
• Pro — The Single Editor writes and previews in one continuous view instead of a split pane. It has left beta and is now part of Mandrill Pro.
• Hide or show the formatting toolbar in the Mac editor with a single click.
• Release notes now appear the first time you open Mandrill after an update, and can be revisited from Help → Release Notes on Mac or Settings → Release Notes on iPhone and iPad.

Fixes

• Settings no longer appears in light mode regardless of your chosen theme, and now uses that theme's actual colours instead of system grey.
• Theme switches between two dark or two light themes now apply immediately to an open document.
• Table columns honour center and right alignment (:---: / ---:) instead of always rendering left-aligned.
• Removed a stray leading space on wrapped table cell text.
• Bulleted, numbered and checklist items now share the line spacing of surrounding paragraphs.
• Fixed a crash when signing in with GitHub on macOS.
• Fixed the oversized GitHub menu icon.
• Images inside GitHub-hosted documents display inline again.
• Closing a GitHub repo workspace no longer leaves stray tabs and Recent Files entries behind.

Improvements

• The Settings window is roomier and scrolls on short displays, so nothing is cut off.
• GitHub repos appear in macOS Recent Folders for quick reopening.
• Unsynced changes in a GitHub workspace are guarded against accidental loss when closing or quitting.
• Tighter line spacing across reading and editing.

✨ New Features

• You'll now see what's new the first time you open Mandrill after an update. Revisit it anytime from Help → Release Notes on Mac, or Settings → Release Notes on iPhone/iPad.

✨ New Features

• New Theme picker in Settings — choose Molokai, Material Light, Material Dark, or Spacegrey, alongside the existing Mandrill Light, Mandrill Dark, and System options.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Settings always appearing in light mode, regardless of your chosen theme.
• Fixed some theme switches (between two dark or two light themes) not fully applying to an open document until you closed and reopened it.

🔧 Improvements

• Tightened line spacing across reading and editing for a cleaner, more compact look.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vandancd/Mndrll/compare/v8.0.2...v8.0.3

✨ New Features

• Browse, edit, and sync GitHub repositories directly from the Mac app — no local clone needed. Open a repo from the sidebar, edit files, and push changes back, matching what was already possible on iOS.
• You can now hide or show the formatting toolbar in the Mac editor with a single click.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed table columns ignoring center/right alignment (:---: / ---: in markdown) — they were always rendering left-aligned.
• Fixed a stray extra space appearing at the start of wrapped table cell text.
• Fixed inconsistent line spacing in bulleted, numbered, and checklist items so they match the surrounding paragraph text.
• Fixed a crash when signing in with GitHub on macOS.
• Fixed the GitHub menu icon rendering oversized in some places.
• Fixed images inside GitHub-hosted documents not displaying inline.
• Fixed leftover tabs and Recent Files entries lingering after closing a GitHub repo workspace.

🔧 Improvements

• GitHub repos now appear in macOS Recent Folders for quick reopening.
• Unsynced changes in a GitHub workspace are now guarded against accidental loss when closing or quitting.

✨ New Features

• A new, always-editable writing surface. Documents now open into one continuous editor instead of switching between read and edit modes — markdown syntax (bold, italic, headings, etc.) stays hidden until your cursor is on that line, then reveals for editing. Available on both Mac and iPhone/iPad.
• iOS gets a Format Bar. A floating toolbar with all your formatting commands (bold, italic, headings, lists, quotes, code, tables, images, and more) now sits above the keyboard while editing — tap the new format icon to show or hide it. It remembers whether you left it open.
• SVG images now display properly instead of showing a broken-image icon, in both the reader and the new editor, on both platforms.
• Native text selection on iPhone/iPad — tap to place your cursor and drag to select text when reading, just like on Mac.

🎨 Improvements

• Reading width and paragraph spacing are now consistent between the reader and the new editor, on both platforms.
• The Insert Table button on iOS now dims and disables itself while you have text selected, since a table can't sensibly replace a selection — matches the Mac app's behavior.
• The "More" menu on iOS is simpler now that every editing command lives in the Format Bar.
• Reclaimed wasted space at the top of the iPad screen.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed several small inconsistencies between how documents look while reading versus editing.

✨ New Features

• To-do lists! Write - [ ] in any list and it renders as a checkbox — tap it right in the reading view to check items off, no need to switch to edit mode.
• Strikethrough text: wrap text in ~~like this~~ to strike it through.
• Highlight text: wrap text in ==like this== to highlight it, with a toolbar button and keyboard shortcut, live preview while editing.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rendering issue where highlighted or inline code backgrounds looked too tall in the reading pane.
• Fixed missing spacing below quote blocks on iOS, so content right after a quote no longer looks cramped.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/vandancd/Mndrll/compare/v7.7...v7.8

✨ New Features

• Image support — markdown images now render inline in the reading view instead of showing as raw ![alt](path) syntax, across local files, Folder Workspaces, and GitHub Workspaces
• Standalone image preview — open an .png/.jpg/.gif/.webp/.svg file directly to view it fit-to-window (SVG renders live via a web view)
• Insert an image into a document via a standard file picker — automatically uses a relative path when the image is inside the document's folder
• Sidebar, Folder Tree, and Recent Files now show and open image files alongside markdown files
• Remote (http/https) images fetch and render inline automatically
• GitHub Workspace: image files fetch and render the same way as local ones, and new images can be added and synced

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a CPU spike that could keep the app pegged at high CPU indefinitely while editing — root-caused to an infinite loop in the markdown parser triggered by a bare, not-yet-completed numbered-list marker (the state right after pressing Enter on a list item)
• Fixed a large empty gap that could appear above an image on its own line, including when it directly followed a line of text
• Fixed split-mode preview being clipped on the left in some window sizes
• Fixed text selection and the right-click context menu not working correctly in iOS read-only mode
• Fixed the iPad sidebar toggle becoming inaccessible in some layouts

♿ Accessibility

• Broken-image placeholders no longer read out a redundant icon description to VoiceOver

Known follow-ups (tracked separately, not in this release)

• Inline SVG images still show a placeholder rather than rendering directly in the reading view (SVG remains fully supported in the standalone preview)
• The split-editor preview pane can drift out of sync with the editor when a document contains large images

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Sidebar text now readable on AccentColor backgrounds — white text on selection, black text on hover
• Blockquote cards use the same neutral background as code blocks, fixing contrast issues in both light and dark mode
• Text selection highlight uses the default macOS system color instead of AccentColor
• Right-click context menu (Copy, Look Up, Select All) now works in read-only mode
• Clicking elsewhere properly deselects text in read-only mode

🔧 Improvements

• AccentColor and AccentColorLight applied consistently across sidebar selections on both macOS and iOS

✨ New Features

• Resizable sidebar — drag the divider to adjust width (180–400pt), persists across launches
• Double-click the divider to reset sidebar to default width
• Native sidebar toggle replaces the custom one
• Blockquote card styling — left accent border with rounded background instead of plain italic text
• AccentColor and AccentColorLight used consistently for all selections, highlights, and links

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Horizontal rules no longer wrap at narrow window widths
• Welcome/landing page restored when no file is open

✨ New Features

• Native macOS toolbar with Home, Add menu, and Sidebar Toggle grouped on the left, and Edit, Typography, Theme, and More on the right
• New [+] overflow menu for creating and opening files and folders — creates new items as siblings of the active file
• "Reveal in Finder" context menu on all sidebar items
• File path displayed in the status bar

🔧 Improvements

• Window title now shows the active file name, centered in the toolbar
• Unsaved changes indicator (dot) in the window close button
• File management: create, move, and rename files and folders directly from the sidebar

New

GitHub integration — open any folder that's backed by a Git repository and Mandrill detects it automatically. Modified files are flagged in the sidebar, so you always know what's changed. When you're ready, push everything to GitHub in one action — no Terminal needed.

Previously released

Folder browser — open any folder and see all your .md files in a sidebar. Click to switch between them instantly, no Finder detours needed.

Split-view editing — a two-pane view with raw Markdown on the left and a live rendered preview on the right, updating as you type.

Single-window, multi-tab browsing — open multiple .md files as tabs in one window. Close tabs with ⌘W or the × button.

GitHub Light and GitHub Dark themes, plus a System option that follows macOS appearance.

Live Markdown editor — switch to edit mode for real-time, theme-aware preview with a formatting bar for common Markdown tags.

Full table support — Markdown tables now render in both reader and editor, with proper alignment.

Recent files on the launch screen — click any to reopen. The same list is available from File ▸ Open Recent, with a Clear option.

Drag & drop — drop .md files onto the window to open them as tabs.

Native preferences window — press ⌘, to switch themes and adjust the experience.

Per-language syntax highlighting in fenced code blocks — Swift, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java/Kotlin, C, C++, Objective-C, Ruby, Bash, SQL, CSS and more.

One-click copy button on every code block.

As always, Mandrill is fully offline and collects zero data.

Thanks for using Mandrill! If you have feedback or feature requests, please get in touch — we'd love to hear from you.