diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/openai/OpenAIApi.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/openai/OpenAIApi.kt
index 39462f93e2..30c32b380e 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/openai/OpenAIApi.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/openai/OpenAIApi.kt
@@ -147,9 +147,10 @@ class OpenAIApi(
                                     "You are an assistant in an RSS reader app, summarizing article content.",
                                     "The app language is '$appLang'.",
                                     "Provide summaries in the article's language if 99% recognizable; otherwise, use the app language.",
-                                    "First line must be: 'Lang: \"ISO code\"'",
+                                    "First line must be exactly: 'Lang: \"ISO code\"' with NO markdown formatting around the Lang line whatsoever.",
                                     "Keep summaries up to 100 words, 3 paragraphs, with up to 3 bullet points per paragraph.",
-                                    "For readability use bullet points, titles, quotes and new lines using plain text only.",
+                                    "For readability use markdown formatting: **bold** for emphasis, *italics* for quotes, bullet points (-) for lists, # headers for sections, and > for block quotes.",
+                                    "Use markdown to structure content and improve readability.",
                                     "Use only single language.",
                                     "Keep full quotes if any.",
                                 ).joinToString(separator = " "),
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleScreen.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleScreen.kt
index 74b4e7ef77..d559470444 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleScreen.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleScreen.kt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import androidx.compose.animation.core.MutableTransitionState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.ScrollState
 import androidx.compose.foundation.focusGroup
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.WindowInsets
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.WindowInsetsSides
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
@@ -511,12 +512,19 @@ private fun SummarySection(summary: OpenAISummaryState) {
                 LinearProgressIndicator(
                     modifier = Modifier.padding(16.dp).fillMaxWidth(),
                 )
-
-            is OpenAISummaryState.Result ->
-                Text(
-                    modifier = Modifier.padding(8.dp),
-                    text = summary.value.content,
-                )
+            is OpenAISummaryState.Result -> {
+                Column(modifier = Modifier.padding(8.dp)) {
+                    summary.annotatedStrings.forEachIndexed { index, annotatedString ->
+                        Text(
+                            text = annotatedString,
+                            modifier =
+                                Modifier.padding(
+                                    bottom = if (index < summary.annotatedStrings.size - 1) 8.dp else 0.dp,
+                                ),
+                        )
+                    }
+                }
+            }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleViewModel.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleViewModel.kt
index caae2cab08..53b78a58f3 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleViewModel.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/feedarticle/ArticleViewModel.kt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.compose.feedarticle
 
 import android.util.Log
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Immutable
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.AnnotatedString
 import androidx.lifecycle.SavedStateHandle
 import androidx.lifecycle.viewModelScope
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ApplicationCoroutineScope
@@ -33,7 +34,9 @@ import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.model.html.HtmlLinearizer
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.model.html.LinearArticle
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.openai.OpenAIApi
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.openai.isValid
+import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.compose.text.htmlStringToAnnotatedString
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.compose.text.htmlToAnnotatedString
+import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.text.MarkdownToHtmlConverter
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.util.Either
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.util.FilePathProvider
 import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.util.logDebug
@@ -330,7 +333,7 @@ class ArticleViewModel(
             val textToRead =
                 when (readFullText) {
                     false ->
-                        Either.catching(
+                        Either.catching<TSSError, List<AnnotatedString>>(
                             onCatch = {
                                 when (it) {
                                     is FileNotFoundException -> TTSFileNotFound
@@ -347,7 +350,7 @@ class ArticleViewModel(
                         }
 
                     true ->
-                        Either.catching(
+                        Either.catching<TSSError, List<AnnotatedString>>(
                             onCatch = {
                                 when (it) {
                                     is FileNotFoundException -> TTSFileNotFound
@@ -398,19 +401,41 @@ class ArticleViewModel(
             try {
                 openAiSummary.value = OpenAISummaryState.Loading
                 val content = loadArticleContent()
+                val summaryResult = openAIApi.summarize(content)
+                val annotatedStrings = convertSummaryToAnnotatedStrings(summaryResult)
                 openAiSummary.value =
                     OpenAISummaryState.Result(
-                        value = openAIApi.summarize(content),
+                        value = summaryResult,
+                        annotatedStrings = annotatedStrings,
                     )
             } catch (e: Exception) {
+                val errorResult = OpenAIApi.SummaryResult.Error(content = e.message ?: "Unknown error")
+                val annotatedStrings = convertSummaryToAnnotatedStrings(errorResult)
                 openAiSummary.value =
                     OpenAISummaryState.Result(
-                        value = OpenAIApi.SummaryResult.Error(content = e.message ?: "Unknown error"),
+                        value = errorResult,
+                        annotatedStrings = annotatedStrings,
                     )
             }
         }
     }
 
+    private suspend fun convertSummaryToAnnotatedStrings(summaryResult: OpenAIApi.SummaryResult): List<AnnotatedString> =
+        withContext(Dispatchers.Default) {
+            return@withContext when (summaryResult) {
+                is OpenAIApi.SummaryResult.Success -> {
+                    val markdownConverter = MarkdownToHtmlConverter()
+                    val htmlContent = markdownConverter.convertToHtml(summaryResult.content)
+                    htmlStringToAnnotatedString(htmlContent)
+                }
+                is OpenAIApi.SummaryResult.Error -> {
+                    // For error messages, create a simple AnnotatedString directly
+                    // without going through markdown/HTML conversion
+                    listOf(AnnotatedString(summaryResult.content))
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
     private suspend fun loadArticleContent(): String {
         val viewState = viewState.value
         val blobFile = blobFullFile(viewState.articleId, filePathProvider.fullArticleDir)
@@ -505,6 +530,7 @@ sealed interface OpenAISummaryState {
 
     data class Result(
         val value: OpenAIApi.SummaryResult,
+        val annotatedStrings: List<AnnotatedString>,
     ) : OpenAISummaryState
 }
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/text/HtmlToAnnotatedString.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/text/HtmlToAnnotatedString.kt
index 557cac69e2..76309a0d51 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/text/HtmlToAnnotatedString.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/text/HtmlToAnnotatedString.kt
@@ -26,6 +26,23 @@ fun htmlToAnnotatedString(
             )
         } ?: emptyList()
 
+/**
+ * Returns "plain text" with annotations for TTS from HTML string
+ */
+fun htmlStringToAnnotatedString(
+    html: String,
+    baseUrl: String = "",
+): List<AnnotatedString> =
+    Jsoup
+        .parse(html)
+        ?.body()
+        ?.let { body ->
+            formatBody(
+                element = body,
+                baseUrl = baseUrl,
+            )
+        } ?: emptyList()
+
 private fun formatBody(
     element: Element,
     baseUrl: String,
@@ -153,24 +170,30 @@ private fun AnnotatedStringComposer.appendTextChildren(
                     }
 
                     "strong", "b" -> {
-                        appendTextChildren(
-                            element.childNodes(),
-                            baseUrl = baseUrl,
-                        )
+                        withStyle(SpanStyle(fontWeight = androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontWeight.Bold)) {
+                            appendTextChildren(
+                                element.childNodes(),
+                                baseUrl = baseUrl,
+                            )
+                        }
                     }
 
                     "i", "em", "cite", "dfn" -> {
-                        appendTextChildren(
-                            element.childNodes(),
-                            baseUrl = baseUrl,
-                        )
+                        withStyle(SpanStyle(fontStyle = androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontStyle.Italic)) {
+                            appendTextChildren(
+                                element.childNodes(),
+                                baseUrl = baseUrl,
+                            )
+                        }
                     }
 
                     "tt" -> {
-                        appendTextChildren(
-                            element.childNodes(),
-                            baseUrl = baseUrl,
-                        )
+                        withStyle(SpanStyle(fontFamily = androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontFamily.Monospace)) {
+                            appendTextChildren(
+                                element.childNodes(),
+                                baseUrl = baseUrl,
+                            )
+                        }
                     }
 
                     "u" -> {
@@ -219,11 +242,13 @@ private fun AnnotatedStringComposer.appendTextChildren(
                     "code" -> {
                         emitParagraph()
                         // TODO some TTS annotation?
-                        appendTextChildren(
-                            element.childNodes(),
-                            preFormatted = preFormatted,
-                            baseUrl = baseUrl,
-                        )
+                        withStyle(SpanStyle(fontFamily = androidx.compose.ui.text.font.FontFamily.Monospace)) {
+                            appendTextChildren(
+                                element.childNodes(),
+                                preFormatted = preFormatted,
+                                baseUrl = baseUrl,
+                            )
+                        }
                         emitParagraph()
                     }
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/text/MarkdownToHtmlConverter.kt b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/text/MarkdownToHtmlConverter.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a1de72f15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/text/MarkdownToHtmlConverter.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.text
+
+import org.intellij.markdown.flavours.commonmark.CommonMarkFlavourDescriptor
+import org.intellij.markdown.html.HtmlGenerator
+import org.intellij.markdown.parser.MarkdownParser
+
+/**
+ * Converts Markdown text to HTML for display in the app.
+ * This is used primarily for rendering AI-generated summaries that contain Markdown formatting.
+ */
+class MarkdownToHtmlConverter {
+    private val flavour = CommonMarkFlavourDescriptor()
+    private val parser = MarkdownParser(flavour)
+
+    /**
+     * Converts Markdown text to HTML
+     */
+    fun convertToHtml(markdown: String): String {
+        if (markdown.isBlank()) {
+            return ""
+        }
+
+        return try {
+            val parsedTree = parser.buildMarkdownTreeFromString(markdown)
+            val htmlGenerator = HtmlGenerator(markdown, parsedTree, flavour)
+            htmlGenerator.generateHtml()
+        } catch (e: Exception) {
+            // If Markdown processing fails, return the original text escaped for HTML
+            escapeHtml(markdown)
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Converts Markdown text to plain text (similar to the existing HTML converter)
+     */
+    fun convertToPlainText(markdown: String): String {
+        if (markdown.isBlank()) {
+            return ""
+        }
+
+        return try {
+            // First convert to HTML, then strip HTML tags to get clean plain text
+            val html = convertToHtml(markdown)
+            html.replace(Regex("<[^>]*>"), "")
+        } catch (e: Exception) {
+            // If Markdown processing fails, return the original text with basic markdown cleanup
+            markdown
+                .replace(Regex("\\*\\*(.*?)\\*\\*"), "$1") // Remove **bold**
+                .replace(Regex("\\*(.*?)\\*"), "$1") // Remove *italic*
+                .replace(Regex("`(.*?)`"), "$1") // Remove `code`
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun escapeHtml(text: String): String =
+        text
+            .replace("&", "&amp;")
+            .replace("<", "&lt;")
+            .replace(">", "&gt;")
+            .replace("\"", "&quot;")
+            .replace("'", "&#39;")
+}
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/text/HtmlToAnnotatedStringTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/text/HtmlToAnnotatedStringTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3bb19f9c11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/test/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/compose/text/HtmlToAnnotatedStringTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.compose.text
+
+import com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.text.MarkdownToHtmlConverter
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class HtmlToAnnotatedStringTest {
+    @Test
+    fun `test markdown to html to annotated string flow`() {
+        val markdown =
+            """
+            # AI Summary
+            
+            This is a **summary** with *formatting*:
+            
+            - **Key point 1**: Important information
+            - *Key point 2*: More details
+            
+            > Quote from the article
+            
+            ## Conclusion
+            
+            The article discusses `code` and more.
+            """.trimIndent()
+
+        val markdownConverter = MarkdownToHtmlConverter()
+        val html = markdownConverter.convertToHtml(markdown)
+
+        // Convert HTML to AnnotatedString
+        val annotatedStrings = htmlStringToAnnotatedString(html)
+
+        // Should have some annotated strings
+        assertTrue(annotatedStrings.isNotEmpty())
+
+        // Check that the content is preserved
+        val combinedText = annotatedStrings.joinToString("\n") { it.text }
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("AI Summary"))
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("summary"))
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("Key point"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test simple html conversion`() {
+        val html = "<p>This is <strong>bold</strong> and <em>italic</em> text.</p>"
+
+        val annotatedStrings = htmlStringToAnnotatedString(html)
+
+        assertTrue(annotatedStrings.isNotEmpty())
+
+        val combinedText = annotatedStrings.joinToString("\n") { it.text }
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("This is"))
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("bold"))
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("italic"))
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("text"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test list html conversion`() {
+        val html =
+            """
+            <ul>
+                <li>Item 1</li>
+                <li>Item 2</li>
+                <li>Item 3</li>
+            </ul>
+            """.trimIndent()
+
+        val annotatedStrings = htmlStringToAnnotatedString(html)
+
+        assertTrue(annotatedStrings.isNotEmpty())
+
+        val combinedText = annotatedStrings.joinToString("\n") { it.text }
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("Item 1"))
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("Item 2"))
+        assertTrue(combinedText.contains("Item 3"))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/text/MarkdownToHtmlConverterTest.kt b/app/src/test/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/text/MarkdownToHtmlConverterTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7538167e7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/test/java/com/nononsenseapps/feeder/ui/text/MarkdownToHtmlConverterTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+package com.nononsenseapps.feeder.ui.text
+
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
+import org.junit.Test
+
+class MarkdownToHtmlConverterTest {
+    private val converter = MarkdownToHtmlConverter()
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test basic markdown conversion`() {
+        val markdown = "This is **bold** and this is *italic*"
+        val html = converter.convertToHtml(markdown)
+
+        // Should contain HTML tags
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<strong>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("</strong>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<em>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("</em>"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test list conversion`() {
+        val markdown =
+            """
+            - Item 1
+            - Item 2
+            - Item 3
+            """.trimIndent()
+
+        val html = converter.convertToHtml(markdown)
+
+        // Should contain list HTML tags
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<ul>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("</ul>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<li>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("</li>"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test heading conversion`() {
+        val markdown = "# Heading 1\n## Heading 2"
+        val html = converter.convertToHtml(markdown)
+
+        // Should contain heading HTML tags
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<h1>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("</h1>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<h2>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("</h2>"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test plain text conversion`() {
+        val markdown = "This is **bold** and this is *italic*"
+        val plainText = converter.convertToPlainText(markdown)
+
+        // Should not contain markdown syntax
+        assertTrue(!plainText.contains("**"))
+        assertTrue(!plainText.contains("*"))
+        assertTrue(plainText.contains("bold"))
+        assertTrue(plainText.contains("italic"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test empty input`() {
+        val html = converter.convertToHtml("")
+        assertEquals("", html)
+
+        val plainText = converter.convertToPlainText("")
+        assertEquals("", plainText)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `test complex markdown`() {
+        val markdown =
+            """
+            # Summary
+            
+            This is a **summary** of the article:
+            
+            - **Key point 1**: Important information
+            - *Key point 2*: More details
+            
+            > Quote from the article
+            
+            ## Conclusion
+            
+            The article discusses `code` and more.
+            """.trimIndent()
+
+        val html = converter.convertToHtml(markdown)
+
+        // Should contain various HTML elements
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<h1>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<strong>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<ul>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<blockquote>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<h2>"))
+        assertTrue(html.contains("<code>"))
+    }
+}