MarkMyWords is described as 'The ideal markup-writing tool for authors. By using Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Textile, Wikitext, HTML or BBCode MarkMyWords makes writing articles for the web a breeze and remains platform-independent by using plain text documents' and is a Text Editor in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to MarkMyWords for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best MarkMyWords alternative is LibreOffice - Writer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MarkMyWords are Microsoft Word, Manuskript, Dendron and Apache OpenOffice Writer.