What it opens
For anyone who gets READMEs, notes, JSON or CSV files and just wants to read them. One shortcut, ⌘/, flips between the rendered page and the raw source.
- Markdown, GitHub-style, with Mermaid diagrams
- JSON as a tree; CSV and TSV as sortable, filterable tables
- Jupyter notebooks, logs with level filters, and diffs
- Highlighted source for any other text file
Careful with what it opens
- File content is treated as untrusted: HTML is sanitized and the page runs under a strict Content Security Policy
- Remote images are blocked by default, so opening a file doesn't tell a tracking pixel you opened it
- Reloads when the file changes on disk, and detects encodings such as Excel's UTF-16 and Windows-1252 CSVs
Small and quick
~5 MBmacOS app bundle; no browser bundled with it
190 msto open a file while Plica is running, against 510 ms from a cold start, on a Mac
119automated checks: unit, browser (Chromium and WebKit), Rust, and a smoke test that drives the installed app