Telescopo

Bottom bar is hard to see and the app doesn’t seem to solve any problem that isn’t solved in other apps and is missing details that about the content it is displaying. Apps that focus on specific formats, like Marked for markdown, are much better at displaying them and giving useful functionality. Trying to pull every format together and reducing functionality isn’t very helpful.

The UX is very difficult to read, the transparent bar at the bottom is impossible to see, it’s a distraction from the text. To get support you need to create an account and sign it — too much trouble in 2025, I don’t want another account to have to remember and manage. The problem is not with Tahoe or liquid glass, though I’m sure that makes it worse. The problem is with the toolbar itself, especially on a dark color scheme for the documents (or any that matches the system’s color scheme). The location of the bar at the bottom, and the subtlety of its design, makes it very difficult to use. You can see it clearly in the screenshots, the toolbar is difficult to read, and as you scroll through documents, more so. There is no contrast, and this was done on purpose. For an app that is essentially about viewing, it should focus on visibility and not coolness.

It seemed really promising and I was looking for a Markdown viewer, but the app can't even display numbered lists correctly. Numbered lists!