Markdown Preview Enhanced installs statistics
By Yiyi Wang · VS Code Marketplace · Other
Markdown Preview Enhanced ported to vscode
Markdown Preview Enhanced has 10,513,616 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #97 of 2,502 tracked listings.
Rating: 4.33 / 5 from 145 ratings
About Markdown Preview Enhanced

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Markdown Preview Enhanced is an open source project released under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. Its ongoing development is made possible thanks to the support by these awesome backers. You can help make this project better by supporting us on GitHub Sponsors, PayPal, or 微信支付 Wechat Pay. Thank you!
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Introduction
Markdown Preview Enhanced is an extension that provides you with many useful functionalities such as automatic scroll sync, math typesetting, mermaid, PlantUML, WebSequenceDiagrams, pandoc, PDF export, code chunk, presentation writer, etc. A lot of its ideas are inspired by Markdown Preview Plus and RStudio Markdown.
Feel free to ask questions, post issues, submit pull request, and request new features.
For more information about this project and how to use this extension, please check out our documentation ⬇︎
Getting Started
- Open a project folder with File → Open Folder… (opening an entire drive as the workspace skips note indexing — wikilinks, backlinks, tags and the graph — with a warning).
- Open a Markdown file (
.md). - Open the preview — it does not start on its own: right-click the editor and choose Markdown Preview Enhanced: Open Preview to the Side, press <kbd>ctrl-k v</kbd> (<kbd>cmd-k v</kbd> on macOS), or run Markdown Preview Enhanced: Open Preview from the Command Palette.
See the Keybindings table below for more shortcuts.
Privacy
This extension does not collect, transmit, or share your data with any external service. The core preview, scroll sync, math typesetting, diagram rendering, and all editor features run entirely on your local machine. No telemetry, no tracking, no phone-home.
- Markdown content — rendered locally; never leaves your machine.
- Math (KaTeX/MathJax) — typeset locally or via a CDN JavaScript library you configure (default: jsdelivr).
- Diagrams (Mermaid, Graphviz, Vega, WaveDrom, D2, TikZ) — rendered locally using bundled or system-installed tools.
- PlantUML — rendered via your own PlantUML server (
plantumlServerconfig) or a local.jarfile. Unless explicitly configured to usekroki.io, no diagram data is sent to any remote service. - Image upload (imgur, sm.ms, qiniu) — opt-in only. Requires you to manually trigger the upload and configure API credentials.
- Pandoc / ebook / PDF export — uses locally installed tools; no data is uploaded.
If you have any questions about data handling, please open an issue.
Documentation
To check out the documentation, visit
Contact me if you are willing to help translate the documentation :)
Keybindings
The <kbd>cmd</kbd> key for Windows is <kbd>ctrl</kbd>.…
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Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shd101wyy.markdown-preview-enhanced. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 22, 2026. See the methodology.