Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac

Pandoc is described as 'Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library' and is a popular markup converter in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pandoc for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Pandoc alternative is Asciidoctor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pandoc are MultiMarkdown, mdBook, TinyMCE and Morphosis.


Generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.


gnu source-highlight is a command line program that can be used to highlight source code, it supports output to many formats including html, ODF, ANSI and groff.