MarkMyWords Alternatives

MarkMyWords has been discontinued. Similar apps include Rentry.co, which is free. Other options are Wordgard, HedgeDoc, ReText and Dillinger. There's no shortage of Text Editors like MarkMyWords, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, the web, Windows, Linux and self-hosting.

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MarkMyWords alternatives page was last updated Sep 21, 2025

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
Brazil
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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
United States
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PHP Markdown
4 likes
PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Origin
Canada
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
Good alternative?Is PHP Markdown a good alternative to MarkMyWords?
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GitHub Flavored Markdown
4 likes
GitHub uses "GitHub Flavored Markdown," or GFM, across the site--in issues, comments, and pull requests. It differs from standard Markdown (SM) in a few significant ways, and adds some additional functionality.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
G
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MarkRight
7 likes
MarkRight is a simple but very efficient Markdown editor built using Electron and ClojureScript. It uses a dual pane interface that lets you focus on the task of writing, while providing a live preview so you can instantly see the results.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
Japan
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Electron / Atom Shell
Japan
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Glow
3 likes
Glow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
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Markdown Here
12 likes
Google Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird extension that lets you write email in Markdown and render it before sending.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Text Editor
Origin
United Kingdom
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Google Chrome
Google Charts
Thunderbird
Firefox
United Kingdom
+2
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ContentTools Editor
27 likes
A small & beautiful WYSIWYG editor for HTML content. ContentTools is a collection of small, flexible, extensible and framework agnostic JavaScript libraries for creating beautiful WYSIWYG editors for HTML content.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Online
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Paragraphs
3 likes
Paragraphs is an app just for writers. It was built for one thing and one thing only: writing. It gives you everything you need to create brilliant prose and does away with the rest.
Cost / License
Paid
Proprietary
Platforms
Mac
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WYMeditor
11 likes
WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Platforms
Online
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Minimalist Markdown Editor
9 likes
This is the simplest and slickest Markdown editor. Just write Markdown and see what it looks like as you type.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Chrome OS
Google Chrome
+2
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Docutils
7 likes
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.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Code Editor
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
D
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