glow
by charmbracelet
Glow is a command-line tool that displays markdown files in the terminal with readable formatting and colours. It lets you browse and read documentation and notes without leaving the command line.
Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.
- Stars
- 27.9k +10 a day
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Go
- Age
- 2551 days
What you can do with it
- Browse and read markdown files in a folder or Git repository from a terminal interface
- Display a README from GitHub, GitLab or a web address directly in the terminal
- Pipe markdown text into it and set the width, style and pager to suit your terminal
Ways a business could use it
- Read project documentation and internal notes quickly on a server or over SSH without a graphical editor
- Preview markdown reports, changelogs or README files in scripts and deployment workflows
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Install with a package manager such as Homebrew, Scoop, Winget or apt, download a ready-made binary, or use go install.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Checked 29 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
