# charmbracelet/glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

Repository: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/glow
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: markdown, cli, excitement, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-16T00:02:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 73, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2494, "days_push": 18, "days_rel": 22, "gap_med": 123, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 27068, forks 751 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:47.356083+00:00)

## What it is
Glow is a terminal-based markdown reader that renders markdown files with styled formatting directly in the CLI. It can discover local markdown files in subdirectories or Git repositories and includes a TUI for browsing them.

## Use cases
- read markdown files in the terminal
- render README.md from the command line
- browse documentation in a git repo from CLI
- view markdown with syntax highlighting in terminal
- find and read local markdown files

## When to choose
- you want to read markdown docs without leaving the terminal
- you need a fast, styled markdown viewer across platforms
- you want a TUI to browse markdown files in a project

## When to avoid
- you need to convert markdown to HTML or PDF
- you need a graphical markdown editor
- you need markdown rendering in a web app

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: markdown, cli, terminal-ui, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, documentation
- platform: windows, bsd, cli, cross-platform
- tags: markdown-renderer, tui, charmbracelet, reader, command-line, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- charmbracelet/glow (main) score 89

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.356083+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:54:35.695061+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.356083+00:00, sha 2e6efddda9cc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.