Glow

Glow is a terminal-based markdown reader and renderer, developed by Charmbracelet (a company founded by Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha that specializes in beautiful terminal applications). With over 18,000 stars as of 2026, Glow renders markdown files with full styling and formatting directly in the terminal, providing syntax highlighting, word wrapping, and a clean reading experience without needing a web browser or GUI markdown editor. Key features include: full CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown rendering (headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, code blocks with syntax highlighting via Chroma, lists, tables, blockquotes, links, images, horizontal rules, and task lists), terminal-aware rendering with proper word wrapping and color support, file discovery (glow automatically finds and renders all markdown files in a directory with fuzzy search via the stash mode), stash mode for browsing and searching local markdown files interactively, GitHub integration for reading markdown from public repositories (glow github owner/repo), remote file fetching (glow -f URL), reading from stdin (piping output from other commands), configurable theme selection (dark, light, and notty for plain text), custom stylesheets via JSON configuration, word wrap at terminal width, output to terminal or file (rendering to TTY or raw text), and integration with the Charm ecosystem (charmbracelet tools for building beautiful CLI apps). Glow is written in Go using Bubble Tea TUI framework and Glamour markdown rendering engine.