The Best 43 PHP Markdown Alternatives

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    Markdown

    Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • TinyMCE

    TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances.

    Freemium

  • 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

  • Sphinx

    Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac Python

  • 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

  • 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