ReText Alternatives

ReText is described as 'Simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText documents with syntax highlighting and optional live preview' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to ReText for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best ReText alternative is Notepad++, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ReText are Typora, ghostwriter, Mark Text and Marknote.

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  1. MacDown icon
     23 likes

    MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou.

    57 MacDown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. PileMD icon
     4 likes

    PileMd has a really beautiful Markdown Editor, looks like Preview. It's like a RichText Editor but it's actually Markdown, and it works like a word processor, complete with Undo/Redo histories, list completion and clickable urls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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
     
  5. Vampirio Code is a versatile open source editor and IDE with syntax highlighting and multi-language compilation, integrated with various compilers and tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. This is the simplest and slickest Markdown editor. Just write Markdown and see what it looks like as you type.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  7. Yu Writer Pro icon
     2 likes

    Efficient cross-platform Markdown text editor.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. MarkUpDown is an editor specialized to make creating Markdown code easy for beginners and experts. With helpful toolbars for beginners, GitHub Flavored/Multimarkdown table support, and keystroke shortcuts & Easy Actions for the expert, MarkUpDown is ready to help anyone...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Marker icon
     2 likes

    A simple GTK+ Markdown text editor with dual-pane live preview, spellcheck, style and theme support, and export to HTML and PDF.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10. 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
     
  11. SXMac icon
     1 like

    SXMac is a light, notes like app that can be used as a rich text editor, markdown editor and preview, code editor with more than 100 supported languages. If you need specific files or anything else in one place.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. 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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