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Marked 3

Last updated 2026-07-13 · benchmark checked 2026-09-15 · unchanged since 2026-08-14 — deterministic & reproducible

Marked QL adds fully rendered Markdown previews to macOS Quick Look.

77/100
7/7 frames
Top 54% of 14,138 measured · #12 of 28 in markdown editor
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.
Checked 2026-09-15 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Marked 3 77/100 on 2026-09-15, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/markedapp-com/2026-09-15

Is Marked 3 production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Marked 3 77 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Marked 3 (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

What we measured

Who built it

Brett Terpstra · product account @MarkedApp

Who it's for

Mac users · Markdown writers · Developers · Documentation creators

Pricing

$4.99 one-time purchase (Mac App Store)

Sources and updates

Description
Taken from markedapp.com's own website on 2026-07-13.
Benchmark
Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-15.

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