MarkItDown Alternatives

MarkItDown is described as 'The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to MarkItDown for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best MarkItDown alternative is Pandoc, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MarkItDown are mdBook, MultiMarkdown, Textile and txt2tags.

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  1. Pandoc icon
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    Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

    16 Pandoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Pandoc is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to MarkItDown.

    • Pandoc is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to MarkItDown.

    • Pandoc is Free and Open SourceMarkItDown is also Free and Open Source
  2. MultiMarkdown icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • MultiMarkdown is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to MarkItDown.

    • MultiMarkdown is Free and Open SourceMarkItDown is also Free and Open Source
  3. Textile icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Textile is the most popular Web-based alternative to MarkItDown.

    • Textile is Free and Open SourceMarkItDown is also Free and Open Source
    • Textile is LightweightMarkItDown is not according to our users
  4. txt2tags icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  5. Asciidoctor icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. PHP Markdown icon
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    PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7.  1 like
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    Automatically rewrites the websites into Markdown optimized for viewing in the terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
     
  8. LLMFeeder icon
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    Brower extension to convert web pages to clean Markdown and copy to clipboard so you can feed it to your favorite LLM model as context with just 1 click!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  9. Jimmy icon
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    Convert your notes to Markdown. To migrate between note apps, keeping a human-readable backup or further processing in a LLM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Booktype icon
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    Booktype helps you turn intellectual property into beautiful, professional books.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Morphosis icon
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    Morphosis is a document conversion app written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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