The Best 58 Markdown Alternatives

  • MarkdownPad

    MarkdownPad is a full-featured Markdown editor for Windows. Features: LivePreview : Instantly see how your documents look in HTML as you create them. Easy formatting with keyboard shortcuts.

    Freemium Windows

  • Haroopad

    Haroopad is a markdown enabled document processor for creating web-friendly documents. You can author various formats of documents such as blog article, slide, presentation, report, and e-mail as if experts did.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • ReText

    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • MarkPad

    MarkPad is a Text editor for writing in MarkDown-Syntax. It will display the parsed and styled result to the right side of the plain text on the left.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Markdown Edit

    Markdown Edit is a Windows desktop Markdown editor with an emphasis on content and keyboard shortcuts. There is minimal window chrome and most functions are accessed through keyboard shortcuts.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Marked

    Marked takes Markdown text–a simple syntax you can learn in minutes–and turns it into beautiful documents for you.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • (Un)colored

    Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Asciidoctor

    Asciidoctor is a fast text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook 5 (or 4.5) and other formats.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • AsciiDoc

    AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks, slideshows, web pages, man pages and blogs. AsciiDoc files can be translated to many formats including HTML, PDF, EPUB, man page.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • MWeb

    MWeb can handle professional-level markdown with support for markdown extensions. It provides publishing to various social networks and blogging formats, as well as various preview themes.

    Commercial

  • Markdown Here

    Google Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird extension that lets you write email in Markdown and render it before sending.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome Firefox Thunderbird

  • Escriba

    A hassle-free and drop-dead pretty text editor for the web. Your document is saved to your browser's local storage and you can even save it to your Dropbox.

    Free Web

  • Write for Mac

    A clean & intuitive design focused on things that matter most - your notes! Write offers a well designed writing experience with beautiful inline markdown rendering and some gorgeous fonts. Add Folders from Anywhere.

    Commercial Mac OS X