PHP Markdown Alternatives

PHP Markdown is described as 'PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to PHP Markdown for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Web-based, Linux, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best PHP Markdown alternative is Rentry.co, which is free. Other great apps like PHP Markdown are ReText, TinyMCE, CKEditor and Glee.

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  1. Rentry.co icon
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    Rentry.co is a markdown pastebin and publishing service with preview, custom urls and editing. Fast, simple and free.

    178 Rentry.co alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Rentry.co is the most popular Web-based alternative to PHP Markdown.

    • Rentry.co is the most popular free alternative to PHP Markdown.

    • Rentry.co is Free and ProprietaryPHP Markdown is Free and Open Source
    • Rentry.co is Minimalistic and LightweightPHP Markdown is not according to our users
  2. ReText icon
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    ReText is a simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview.

    77 ReText alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • ReText is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to PHP Markdown.

    • ReText is the most popular Open Source alternative to PHP Markdown.

    • ReText is Free and Open SourcePHP Markdown is also Free and Open Source
    • ReText is LightweightPHP Markdown is not according to our users
  3. TinyMCE icon
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    TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances.

    32 TinyMCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
    • Joomla
     
    • TinyMCE is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to PHP Markdown.

    • TinyMCE is Freemium and Open SourcePHP Markdown is Free and Open Source
  4. CKEditor icon
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    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.

    39 CKEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Glee icon
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    Glee publishes Markdown files into Ghost blog posts. With glee, you can create and update Ghost blogs. Since glee operates on plain markdown files, your blog posts are now git-friendly, allowing for easy collaboration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Ghost
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Dillinger icon
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    Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage, AngularJS powered HTML5 Markdown editor.

    83 Dillinger alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Sphinx icon
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    Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

    49 Sphinx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Tiptap icon
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    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. Build products with real-time synchronization, amazing content experience, whiteboard collaboration, real-time editing, AI-powered content and version control efficiency.

    32 Tiptap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Byword icon
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    Byword is designed to make writing more enjoyable with Markdown on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.

    148 Byword alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Byword is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to PHP Markdown.

    • Byword is the most popular commercial alternative to PHP Markdown.

    • Byword is Paid and ProprietaryPHP Markdown is Free and Open Source
  10. 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
     
  11. MyST Markdown icon
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    MyST makes Markdown more extensible & powerful to support an ecosystem of tools for computational narratives, technical documentation, and open scientific communication.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Markdown
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  12. 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

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
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