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.

Download for Mac Mac App Store · soon

Free download · macOS 14 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 sandbox-safe.

Full Markdown, plus

CommonMark and GitHub-flavored Markdown — tables, task lists, footnotes, code blocks — with 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. The editor gives you syntax highlighting and line numbers, and stays out of your way.

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."
Get Vaelora

Your Markdown deserves better.

Download the app directly, or grab it from the Mac App Store when it lands there.

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Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon & Intel · Notarized & sandboxed