Textile is described as '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' and is a Markup Language in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Textile, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best Textile alternative is Quarkdown, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Textile are Markdown, Pandoc, MultiMarkdown and CommonMark.