Glow Alternatives

Glow is described as 'Terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to Glow for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Glow alternative is Typora. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ghostwriter or Mark Text. Other great apps like Glow are StackEdit, Tenno, Hemingway Editor and ReText.

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  1. Zen Editor icon
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    Zen by Unit is a free, minimal, fast, private writing app. Just open and use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. MdCharm icon
     7 likes

    MdCharm is a wiki editor written in Qt which supports markdown. It has features like live preview, pdf/html/odt exporting, opening directory as project, custom css, code syntax highlighting and much more.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Marked icon
     18 likes

    Marked 2 is a previewer (not an editor) for Markdown, MultiMarkdown and other text markup languages. It updates live every time you save your document in your favorite text editor, comes with writing analysis tools, and is powerfully flexible.

    63 Marked alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. PHP Markdown icon
     4 likes

    PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Modern Markdown Editor is a sleek, minimal note-taking and writing platform that lets you create, edit, and organize your notes effortlessly using Markdown.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Deepdwn icon
     3 likes

    Deepdwn is a markdown editing suite, designed to organize and edit collections of markdown files.

    96 Deepdwn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. A modern macOS markdown editor - themeable, tabs, sidebar, GitHub flavored markdown, exporting, latex and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. MWeb icon
     10 likes

    MWeb can handle professional-level markdown with support for markdown extensions. It provides publishing to various social networks and blogging formats, as well as various preview themes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Remarkable icon
     15 likes

    A fully featured markdown editor for Linux. Features include Live Preview, PDF/HTML export, MathJax support, Syntax highlighting, customizable, keyboard shortcuts, GFM, images, tables and much more.

    61 Remarkable alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Elegant Markdown Editor (EME) is an intuitive Markdown text editor with distraction-free mode, auto-sync for GitHub Gist, math typesetting support and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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