Pygments Alternatives

Pygments is described as 'Generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pygments for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Windows apps. The best Pygments alternative is Pandoc, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pygments are Unmarkdown, Rich-CLI, prism.js and highlight.js.

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  1. Pandoc icon

    Pandoc

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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.

    19 Pandoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Unmarkdown icon

    Unmarkdown

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    Publish markdown beautifully to Google Docs, Word, Slack, and more. Paste AI-generated markdown, style with 62 templates, and copy perfectly formatted output to any destination.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    The Unmarkdown landing page. Paste markdown, pick a destination, done.
     
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    Rich-CLI

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    Rich-CLI is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal, built with Rich.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  5. prism.js icon

    prism.js

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    Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind.

    13 prism.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    css highlight themes
     
  6. highlight.js icon

    highlight.js

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    Highlight.js is a client-side Syntax Highlighting library in Javascript.It can be used in Pastebin Services or in Code Examples.Because of running on client side,it needs less bandwidth than server-side Syntax Highlighting libraries.

    15 highlight.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    highlight.js screenshot 1
     
  7. Lolight icon

    Lolight

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    Lolight is a 3kB tokenizer and syntax highlighter. No language specific syntax support, just a CSS stylable breakdown into tokens. Default styles included.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Lolight screenshot 1
     
  9. gnu source-highlight icon

    gnu source-highlight

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. M

    MarkItDown

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    The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.).

    22 MarkItDown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  12. Rouge icon

    Rouge

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    Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 200 different languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text. Its HTML output is compatible with stylesheets designed for Pygments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Ruby
    • Self-Hosted
    Rouge screenshot 1
     
  13. R

    Re-Highlight

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    Re-Highlight is a powerful syntax highlighter, which is a sub-module of the Reqable project. Re-Highlight can highlight a text by simply defining a syntax file. And Re-Highlight has built-in syntax highlighting rules for dozens of programming languages, it is easy to make your...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Re-Highlight screenshot 1
     
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