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Shiba

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Simple, performant, and keyboard-centric Markdown browser

ApplicationCategory: Desktop Apps · Development · Office & notesOpen sourcedata checked Oct 16, 2026
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Overview

  • desktop-app
  • markdown
  • preview

Installation

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  • Official release filesFrom public sourcesfrom the latest official release
    github.com/rhysd/Shiba/releases/tag/v1.2.1 ↗
  • Language package registryFrom public sourcesfrom the package manifest — publication on the registry is not verified
    cargo install shiba-preview

    Not verified: check that this package in the registry belongs to this project before installing.

    crates.io/crates/shiba-preview ↗
  • Build from sourceFrom public sourcesfrom catalog metadata

    Build from source: no validated build recipe — follow the repository instructions.

    github.com/rhysd/Shiba ↗

Compatibility

Unknown means no evidence was found — not that the product is incompatible.
PlatformStatusArchitectureEvidenceConfidence
WindowsCompatiblex86official build in release v1.2.1: Shiba-win32-ia32.zip0.70
Compatiblex86_64official build in release v1.2.1: Shiba-win32-x64.zip0.70
macOSCompatiblex86_64official build in release v1.2.1: Shiba-darwin-x64.zip0.70
LinuxCompatible—official build in release v1.2.1: Shiba-linux-ia32.zip0.60
Compatiblex86_64official build in release v1.2.1: Shiba-linux-x64.zip0.70

Releases

checked Oct 30, 2026
v1.2.1LatestMay 28, 2018Official source ↗

Files in 1.2.1

The marketplace does not host these files: downloads go to the official source. Files have not been scanned by us.
FilePlatformSizeSHA-256Download from the official source
Shiba-darwin-x64.zipmacos · x86_64 · zip63.2 MB—Official source ↗
Shiba-linux-ia32.ziplinux · zip66.2 MB—Official source ↗
Shiba-linux-x64.ziplinux · x86_64 · zip63.2 MB—Official source ↗
Shiba-win32-ia32.zipwindows · x86 · zip57 MB—Official source ↗
Shiba-win32-x64.zipwindows · x86_64 · zip65.2 MB—Official source ↗

Release history

Quality profile

algorithm quality-v1.0 · assessed Oct 16, 2026
Quality Score77
Risk Score0
Confidence 1.00
Quality Score and Risk Score are different measures. A high score does not guarantee safety.

Score components

Maintenance · 2016
last activity 87 days ago
Documentation · 1515
README 3189 chars, description present
Ready to use · 156
install instructions: no; releases: yes
Metadata · 108
3/4 of description, homepage, license, topics
Releases · 1010
10 release(s), latest 201 days ago
Category confidence · 105
classifier confidence 0.5
Adoption · 107
805 stars (log-dampened, 10k = max)
License clarity · 55
SPDX MIT
Community · 55
issues enabled, 53 forks

License

MIT
Known licensefrom the repository host

This is the catalog policy status, not legal advice.

Sources

github.com/rhysd/ShibaPrimary★ 805 starslast activity Jul 20, 2026Primary repository · Confidence 1.00

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README

From rhysd/Shiba · license MIT · fetched Oct 30, 2026

[icon] Shiba

[CI] [dogs respected] [crates.io]

[!WARNING] Shiba v2 is a work in progress

Shiba is a simple Markdown browser to preview documents with your favorite text editor. It is designed for simplicity, performance, keyboard-friendly navigations.

[Screenshot of light/dark windows]

Features:

  • GitHub-flavored Markdown support; Emojis, Table, Alerts, Math expressions with Mathjax, Diagrams with mermaid.js, ...
  • Watch the files or directories and automatically update the preview efficiently using OS-specific filesystem events (FSEvents, inotify, ...)
  • Automatically scroll to the last modified position
  • All features can be accessed via keyboard shortcuts (scroll the article, search text, jump to section, go forward/back history...). Type ? to know all shortcuts
  • Sections outline in side navigation bar highlighting the current section
  • Both CLI and GUI friendly; Available as a single binary executable as well as an installable desktop application
  • Performance critical part (parsing Markdown text, searching Markdown AST, calculating the last modified position, ...) and core application logic are written in Rust. Thin view logic is written in TypeScript & React and runs on platform-specific WebView
  • Multiple windows support to open multiple documents simultaneously
  • Cross platform; macOS, Windows, Linux are supported
  • Customizable with a YAML config file (color theme, keyboard shortcuts, custom CSS, ...)
  • Dogs are respected :dog2:

Documentation

All documentations are in the docs directory.

About v2

Shiba v2 is the complete rewrite of v1 using Rust and platform-specific WebView. For v1, please visit the v1 branch.

License

This software is distributed under the MIT license.

Open the repository ↗