Blogdown Alternatives

Blogdown is described as 'The goal of the blogdown package is to provide a powerful and customizable website output format for R Markdown. Use dynamic R Markdown documents to build webpages featuring:' and is an app. There are five alternatives to Blogdown for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Java Mobile apps. The best Blogdown alternative is GitBook, which is free. Other great apps like Blogdown are mdBook, Notaku, Vrite and Bookdown.

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  1. GitBook icon
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    GitBook is a tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:

    84 GitBook alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • GitBook is the most popular Web-based alternative to Blogdown.

    • GitBook is the most popular free alternative to Blogdown.

    • GitBook is Freemium and ProprietaryBlogdown is Free and Open Source
    • GitBook is LightweightBlogdown is not according to our users
  2. mdBook icon
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    Gitbook alternative in Rust.

    56 mdBook alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
     
    • mdBook is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Blogdown.

    • mdBook is the most popular Open Source alternative to Blogdown.

    • mdBook is Free and Open SourceBlogdown is also Free and Open Source
  3. Notaku icon
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    Turn you Notion into documentation, knowledge base and blog websites.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Vrite icon
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    Open-source headless CMS ideal for programming blogs, offering a modern WYSIWYG editor, Markdown, code formatting, real-time collaboration, Kanban dashboard, and versatile API for content delivery.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Vrite is the most popular SaaS alternative to Blogdown.

    • Vrite is Freemium and Open SourceBlogdown is Free and Open Source
  5. Bookdown icon
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    The bookdown package is a free and open-source R package built on top of R Markdown to make it really easy to write books and long-form articles/reports.

    13 Bookdown alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java Mobile
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Bookdown is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Blogdown.

    • Bookdown is Free and Open SourceBlogdown is also Free and Open Source
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