Top 15 Markdown Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

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).

Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

1. Docutils

Docutils Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, man-pages, open-document or XML. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language._Python - Docutils_The main distribution of reStructuredText is the Python Docutils package. It contains several......

2. PHP Markdown

PHP Markdown IntroductionThis is a library package that includes the PHP Markdown parser and its sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features. Originally it was a port to PHP of the Markdown tool written by John Gruber.“Markdown” is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software tool that converts the......

3. txt2tags

txt2tags It reads a text file with minimal markup such as **bold** and //italic// and converts it to the following formats (among others): - HTML - XHTML - SGML - LaTeX - Spip - Man page - Wikipedia / MediaWiki......

4. AsciiDoc

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.AsciiDoc is highly configurable: both the AsciiDoc source file syntax and the backend output markups (which can......

5. wamer

wamer Wamer(Web App Maker) is an online tool which allows you to build the application from a set of relatively small independent units(HTML/CSS/JS). Unit also has a set of parameters (settings) which gives the desired level of abstraction and reusability.So we call such unit a stencil.Use of stencils on the Web......

6. Textile

Textile Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen and billed as a "humane web text generator". Textile converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes.Textile was......

7. HTMLPad

HTMLPad HTMLPad is sophisticated all-in-one HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XHTML editor. Features include FTP connectivity, HTML Tidy validator, spell check.......

8. Griffon IDE

Griffon IDE Griffon is a text editor for HTML script developer, BASH, Perl, PHP, C language...It allows the generation of source code in a few clicks avoiding traps BASH syntax example where a single misplaced space has the power to crash a script. Other basic functions of an IDE are also present.Griffon......

9. WeBuilder

WeBuilder WeBuilder is a faster, smarter and more powerful all-in-one code editor for web developers. Clean interface, quick startup, superb flexibility and powerful features allow you to create and manage code written in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, ASP, SSI, Perl and other languages faster and easier, while integrated tools......

10. codelot

codelot Codelot is a web service where you can store your own codes or find codes you need. It's intended to be a huge code database and it should help the coders in need.The website is completely user-driven and the size of the code database depends on you.......

11. Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor)

Emerald Editor (Crimson Editor) Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for programming languages such as HTML, C/C++, Perl, and Java.......

12. YAML

YAML YAML 1.2---YAML: YAML Ain't Markup LanguageWhat It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.......

13. Batch Text File Editor

Batch Text File Editor Batch-Notepad that can replace, insert, delete, copy, and move text in multiple files in bulk!- RegEx support with colored syntax highlighting and RegEx match substitutions.- Multi-line replace lets you search for and replace text spanning multiple lines.- Wildcards, case sensitivity , and match counting options can refine your search! Insert......

14. XML

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable. It is defined by the W3C's XML 1.0 Specification[2 and by several other related specifications, all of which are free open standards.The design goals......

15. skEdit

skEdit Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web. Handles most common features you want; code completion, saved snippets, subversion support, remote connections, extensible language support, browser preview and much more. This is a lightweight editor for most things web that's very comfortable and easy to use. Perfect for handling both......