Productivity
Markdown Buddy
Last updated 2026-08-20 · benchmark measured 2026-08-20 — deterministic & reproducible
Native Markdown editor and previewer for macOS, available for a one-off €0.99 purchase.
Is Markdown Buddy production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Markdown Buddy 82 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Markdown Buddy (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 98/100
- Accessibility — 71/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 70/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 92/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 295 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who it's for
macOS users · Markdown writers · Developers · Documentation authors
Pricing
€0.99 one-off purchase on Mac App Store
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