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Glow

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Glow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
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Features

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  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  Markdown preview

Glow News & Activities

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    POX added Glow as alternative to Tenno
    7 months ago
  • App icon
    POX added Glow as alternative to Fleschkey
    8 months ago
  • sushruta updated Glow
    11 months ago
  • godevilove reviewed Glow  
    12 months ago

    Doesn't provide much value, doesn't render headers of different levels anyhow differently (just a blue text with 1 or more # symbols at start). Edit mode just calls your EDITOR and you don't get WYSIWYG.

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Glow information

  • Developed by

    Charm
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    56 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

GitHub repository

  •  17,818 Stars
  •  402 Forks
  •  101 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 15, 2025 
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Glow, and it has gotten 2 likes

Glow was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Oct 15, 2020 and this page was last updated Jun 11, 2024.

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godevilove
Jun 8, 2024
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Doesn't provide much value, doesn't render headers of different levels anyhow differently (just a blue text with 1 or more # symbols at start). Edit mode just calls your EDITOR and you don't get WYSIWYG.

What is Glow?

Glow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI.

Use it to discover markdown files, read documentation directly on the command line and stash markdown files to your own private collection so you can read them anywhere. Glow will find local markdown files in subdirectories or a local Git repository.

By the way, all data stashed is encrypted end-to-end: only you can decrypt it. More on that below.

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