Man Reader allows quick, convenient and easy access to the man pages on your system, useful for programmers, system administrators and tweakers. Man pages provide the help needed to configure and use Unix commands and are usually accessed through Terminal, but this is a clumsy and inconvenient way to view the pages. Features: • List of all available man pages on your system. • Show only a section of the pages. • Search for a man page by name or search within a page. • Display man page in text or HTML (different pages look best in different formats). • Step back & forward through recently viewed man pages. • Live links to 'See Also' entries. • 'Sticky notes' at the side to jump to sub-sections in a page. • Bookmark frequently viewed pages. • Choose a font and size for the display. • Convenient buttons in the toolbar allow quick access to commonly used utilities.
Great app
I use this all the time worth every penny paid for it.
United StatesMost useful & GREAT support
I’ve been using Man Reader for a while and it has always been one of those apps that I keep on the Dock and refer to when I’m doing some tricky scripting or whatever. I discovered a bug in an earlier version that cause Man Reader to not pick up the man pages from ImageMagic that I loaded with MacPorts. I contacted them and Sarah was ultra responsive. She gave me a couple of test versions and I sent her back the log files and she fixed the problem. I am SO very pleased with how well Man Reader works and I am SO very pleased with Sarah’s passion for writing software that works. If you ever use the command line, you NEED this app!
United StatesGood App, Could Use a Few More Features
Not a bad alternative to reading man pages from the Terminal interface, or reading them in Vim or Emacs. Competes with the free untility Man Viewer which has two features that I wish Man Reader would consider implementing: tabs and the ability to add a path to the Man Path. Both the above features would make it close to ‘perfect’. All in all though a good stable utility for system admins, developers or anyone else curious enough to read man pages on OSX.
United StatesGreat Idea & Well Executed
What a fantastic app. Will help me learn what is availabe and navigate through related pages. One thing that threw me at first: I’m used to searching for flags like -s . If you do this, you get no results unless you escape the dash: \-s It’d be great if -s would work, either by default or via a Preference option. Wish I had something like this on the Raspberry Pi, Cent OS, etc. side.
United StatesGreat Application
Simple :) and easy to use. Good job!!! Another great release. Thank you….
United StatesHandy App
This is a nice, inexpensive application well worth looking at. It provides a clean and simple front end for man pages with some quick access features to jump to individual pages and sections and browse back / forward through previously viewed man pages. The UI could use a bit of work (the colors on the section tabs on the right are a bit ugly) but the application seems to work well and definitely adds value beyond to the command line interface (this from someone who works much of the time at a command prompt). Splitting panes in tmux sessions to view man pages will be much less common now. Update ideas: bookmarking, save notes associated with specific pages, search across man page content in addition to page names.
United StatesHandy
Nice to have a separate viewer for man pages besides Terminal. Basic, no fluff. And the sections dropdown and search are useful for finding those tools I used months ago, but can't quite remember the name of it.
United States
I am working on a major update to Man Reader, but this is taking longer than expected due to other commitments, so this is an interim release to fix some of the UI problems with the current version. And this version also fixes issues with crashing on first run, dark mode over-riding the user preferences and missing links for non-standard man pages.
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