

Tinta
Tinta is a fast, lightweight markdown viewer and reader for Windows, built with Direct2D and DirectWrite for hardware-accelerated text rendering. It's a single portable executable under 1 MB that starts in about 200 ms — no Electron, no bundled browser, no installer.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
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What is Tinta?
Tinta is a fast, lightweight markdown viewer and reader for Windows, built with Direct2D and DirectWrite for hardware-accelerated text rendering. It's a single portable executable under 1 MB that starts in about 200 ms — no Electron, no bundled browser, no installer.
Designed to be the double-click default for .md files: 10 themes (5 light, 5 dark, including an OLED-friendly pure black), native Mermaid flowchart rendering, first-class CJK text layout, internal anchor links with GitHub-compatible heading slugs, table of contents, folder browser, full-text search, rich tables, text selection, zoom, drag & drop, and an edit mode with live preview.
Free and open source, MIT licensed. Also available on the Microsoft Store, winget, and Scoop.





