Markdown in.
Beautiful PDF out.

Vaelora turns your Markdown into perfectly paginated PDF — with a live preview that is the export, and CSS as the styling contract.

Free download · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon & Intel

Vaelora's split view: a Sunday Bread recipe in Markdown on the left, and the live paginated preview with its title block, tip callout, ingredients table and checklists on the right
Why Vaelora

Everything a document deserves.

Write in Markdown, ship a PDF you're proud of. No print dialogs, no browser engines bolted on, no cloud round-trips.

Live paginated preview

See real pages as you type — with the exact breaks, margins, and headers your PDF will have. What you preview is what you export.

Ground-truth export

Vaelora measures your document before it writes a single page, so page numbers, outlines, and links always land exactly right.

CSS is the contract

Style documents with real CSS in portable .mdpdfstyle files. If you can style a web page, you can design a document.

Truly native

A real Mac app built with SwiftUI. No Electron, no bundled Chrome, no external runtimes — fast, lightweight, and notarized by Apple.

Full Markdown, plus

CommonMark and GitHub-flavored Markdown — tables, task lists, footnotes, coloured code, and images you size and place from the Markdown — plus mathematics, callouts and tracked changes, with an automatic table of contents and PDF outline.

Presets that remember

Save a style, page setup, and header/footer as a named preset — and reuse it across every document. One click, same polish.

How it works

Three steps to done.

No configuration maze. Open a file and you're already looking at the finished document.

Write

Open any Markdown file — or start fresh. Headings look like headings and the syntax steps aside until your caret needs it, with a formatting bar for the parts nobody enjoys typing.

Style

Pick a style from the library or tweak page size, margins, headers and footers in the inspector. The preview repaginates live.

Export

Hit ⌘E. Vaelora renders a pixel-accurate PDF with clickable links, a navigable outline, and page numbers that never lie.

Styles

Design once, reuse forever.

Every document's look lives in a portable .mdpdfstyle file — plain CSS you can edit, version, and share with your team.

  • Built-in style editor with a live specimen, so you see every rule take effect instantly.
  • Headers & footers styled with the same CSS as the page — they always match your document.
  • Share a style file and anyone's export looks exactly like yours. Pixel for pixel.
The export

PDFs that behave like PDFs.

Not a print-to-PDF afterthought. Vaelora builds real, structured documents.

  • Navigable outline — every heading appears in the PDF sidebar, nested correctly.
  • Clickable everything — links work, and the table of contents jumps to the right page. Always.
  • Smart page breaks — headings and paragraphs never split awkwardly across pages.
  • Headers, footers & numbering — with per-document control, including "skip the first page."
New in 0.9

Review your AI can read.

Click in the margin, leave a note — or propose the words themselves as a tracked change. Both go into the Markdown itself, so the assistant working on the document can see them, answer them, and hand the file back.

  • In the file, not beside it — a comment is {>> RS: is 12 months right? <<} in your source. In Word or Google Docs it lives in a layer a model cannot reach.
  • Saved the moment you write it — so the assistant you ask to answer is reading the note, not the version before it.
  • Never on paper — comments render to nothing in the PDF. Not a setting to remember: the exporter has no way to print one.
  • Everyone in their own colour — marks in the margin say who without the pane open, and a reply sits beside the note it answers.
  • Changes, one at a time{--12--}{++18++} in the file. Click a mark in the preview to take that change, drop it, or leave a comment and decide later.
Get Vaelora

Your Markdown deserves better.

One download, straight from us. No account, no store, no subscription.

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Apple silicon & Intel · Notarized by Apple