Pixley Reader

Pixley Reader is a native macOS application designed to display Markdown files produced by AI‑generated specifications, documentation, and changelogs. It provides a dedicated viewer that avoids the need to open a full‑featured code editor for simply browsing these files. The app includes a folder‑tree sidebar backed by NSOutlineView, enabling smooth navigation of large directory structures, and a live‑watch feature that shows a reload pill when a file changes on disk.

User interaction is streamlined with a Cmd+P fuzzy file search similar to VS Code’s Quick Switcher, drag‑and‑drop opening of folders or files, and syntax‑highlighted rendering that offers seven theme families with light and dark variants. An on‑device AI chat, powered by Apple Foundation Models, lets users ask questions about the current document without requiring cloud services or API keys.

The project is built with Swift 6.2, SwiftUI, and AppKit, using SwiftData for metadata persistence and containing no external dependencies. It runs on macOS 15 or later, with the AI chat feature requiring macOS 26 and Apple Intelligence. The source code is released under the MIT license.