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. Editorially icon
     5 likes

    Write. Rewrite. Share and discuss. Everything you need to make good writing great.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. MarkRight icon
     6 likes

    MarkRight is a simple but very efficient Markdown editor built using Electron and ClojureScript. It uses a dual pane interface that lets you focus on the task of writing, while providing a live preview so you can instantly see the results.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  3. Marxico icon
     8 likes

    Marxico is a neat Markdown editor that features :

    code highlight, tables, images, attachments, LaTeX etc.

    live preview, offline desktop client and Chrome App.

    Evernote integration with notebooks & tags, two-way bind editing etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Google Chrome
    • Evernote
     
  4. Blank Slate icon
     1 like

    Get thoughts down quick, do things with them later. Just start typing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. MultiMarkdown Composer is a text editor for Mac that is designed from the ground up around the MultiMarkdown Syntax. It is designed to make writing in MultiMarkdown even easier than it already is, with automatic syntax highlighting, built in previews, easy export to any format...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. CuteMarkEd icon
     7 likes

    A Qt-based, free and open source markdown editor with live HTML preview, math expressions, code and markdown syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
  7. Texts.io icon
     9 likes

    Advanced text editor tailored for creating structured documents. Leverages Markdown to differentiate content and formatting, ensuring streamlined editing and publishing to a multitude of formats.

    68 Texts.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Classeur icon
     6 likes

    Start writing notes, docs, and blogs quickly using Markdown.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Typewrite icon
     8 likes

    Typewrite is a real-time collaborative writing environment with Markdown support, versioning and Dropbox syncing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Yu Writer Pro icon
     2 likes

    Efficient cross-platform Markdown text editor.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. Theorylog icon
     3 likes

    Write markdown documents with quickly accessible code snippets, mathematical equations and images and store them in the cloud to be accessed anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. MarkMyWords icon
     4 likes

    A minimal markdown editor in the eOS design.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vala
     
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