Tapa native Markdown reader
A fast, minimal Markdown reader and editor, built in Rust. Native desktop, about 5 MB, boots instantly. Free and open source.
Tapa is reader-first. Point it at a folder of Markdown and you read: clean rendered prose, nothing in the way. Editing is on demand. Double-click the exact block and you drop into an editor where you clicked; double-click again and you are back to reading.
What it does
Reader-first rendering
Open a folder and read rendered Markdown. Full CommonMark and GFM.
Edit on demand
Double-click a block to edit exactly there (CodeMirror).
File tree
Sidebar with the whole folder, toggle with Cmd-B.
Fuzzy file finder
Cmd-K to jump between files by name.
Content search
Cmd-Shift-F searches inside files, results streamed from Rust.
Live reload
Disk changes reload on their own, without losing unsaved edits.
OS-native theme
Follows the system light/dark, with a manual toggle.
Shortcuts
- Fuzzy file finder
- ⌘K
- Search inside files
- ⌘⇧F
- Toggle the sidebar
- ⌘B
- Save and return to reading
- ⌘S
- Enter / exit edit mode
- Double-click
Where the name comes from
Tapa, from Tapajós, the river and region of western Pará, Brazil, where Ary is from. The region carries its own identity, with a long-running movement to carve out a State of Tapajós.
And tapa cloth, the Pacific barkcloth beaten from paper-mulberry bark into thin sheets to paint and write on. Paper tree, beaten sheet, a surface for marks: the whole arc of a Markdown document. In Portuguese, a tapa is also the cover of a book.
Download
v0.2.0 · free, MIT · macOS, Windows, Linux
- macOS Apple Silicon (.dmg) 5.2 MB
- macOS Intel (.dmg) 5.4 MB
- Windows .exe 1.8 MB
- Windows .msi 2.5 MB
- Linux Debian / Ubuntu (.deb) 2.4 MB
- Linux Fedora / RHEL (.rpm) 2.4 MB
- Linux AppImage 73.6 MB
The app is not signed yet, so the OS warns on first launch: on macOS use right-click then Open; on Windows click More info then Run anyway.