MarkMyWords AlternativesText Editors and other similar apps like MarkMyWords

MarkMyWords is described as 'A minimal markdown editor in the eOS design' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to MarkMyWords for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Self-Hosted apps. The best MarkMyWords alternative is Rentry.co, which is free. Other great apps like MarkMyWords are HedgeDoc, ReText, CKEditor and Dillinger.

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MarkMyWords alternatives page was last updated Sep 21, 2025

Rentry.co
55 likes
Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin and publishing service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.
188 Rentry.co alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary (MIT)
Application types
Pastebin
Text Editor
Origin
United States
Platforms
Online
+1
Is Rentry.co a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
HedgeDoc
29 likes
HedgeDoc (fcommunity-driven fork of CodiMD) is an open-source collaborative markdown editor. With HedgeDoc you can easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go.
29 HedgeDoc alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application types
Text Editor
Note-taking
Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
Online
Self-Hosted
Cloudron
Docker
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ReText
49 likes
ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.
83 ReText alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Is ReText a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
CKEditor
40 likes
CKEditor 4 and CKEditor 5 are easy-to-implement open source JavaScript WYSIWYG rich text editors for any web browser. CKEditor Ecosystem has 2 very distinct rich text editors as well as image upload and collaboration solutions.
41 CKEditor alternatives
Cost / License
Free Personal
Open Source
Origin
Poland
EU
Platforms
Online
Self-Hosted
+5
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Dillinger
10 likes
Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor.
92 Dillinger alternatives
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
Online
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Byword
53 likes
Byword is designed to make writing more enjoyable with Markdown on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Application type
Word Processor
Origin
Portugal
EU
Platforms
Mac
iPhone
iPad
+9
Is Byword a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
AsciiDoc
14 likes
Text processor for AsciiDoc format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc which is human readable text format, similar to Markdown format, but with more complex syntax usage (but not so complex like LaTeX).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Is AsciiDoc a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
MultiMarkdown
5 likes
MultiMarkdown, or MMD, is a tool to help turn minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents, including HTML, PDF (by way of LaTeX), OPML, or OpenDocument (specifically, Flat OpenDocument or ‘.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
Is MultiMarkdown a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
Textile
12 likes
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...
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Markup Language
Platforms
Online
Is Textile a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
txt2tags
7 likes
It reads a text file with minimal markup such as bold and //italic// and converts it to the following formats (among others):
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Code Editor
Origin
Brazil
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Is txt2tags a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
Zen Editor
1 like
Zen by Unit is a free, minimal, fast, private writing app. Just open and use.
Cost / License
Free
Proprietary
Application type
Text Editor
Platforms
Online
+2
Is Zen Editor a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
Asciidoctor
15 likes
Asciidoctor is a fast text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook 5 (or 4.5) and other formats.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
United States
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
Is Asciidoctor a good alternative to MarkMyWords?