Showdown Alternatives

Showdown is described as 'Easy-to-use tool for quickly creating presentations using Markdown. It's perfect for those times where you need to whip up a presentation within minutes rather than hours, like for a sprint review or presenting your findings on that experiment for your team' and is a presentation maker in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Showdown for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows and SaaS apps. The best Showdown alternative is LibreOffice - Impress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Showdown are Prezi, Microsoft PowerPoint, reveal.js and Google Slides.

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  1. Slideas icon
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    Slideas is a Markdown Presentation Editor providing easy to use editing functions.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Slidev icon
     2 likes

    There are a lot of feature-rich, general-purpose, WYSIWYG slides makers like Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. They work pretty well for making nice slides with animations, charts, and many other things, while being very intuitive and easy to learn.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Remark icon
     11 likes

    A simple, in-browser, Markdown-driven slideshow tool targeted at people who know their way around HTML and CSS, featuring:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Deckset icon
     6 likes

    Great-looking slides from simple Markdown files. Write down your thoughts in your favourite text editor, and Deckset will turn them into beautiful presentations.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Imagine the speed of Markdown with the usability of Keynote. Create beautiful slides by typing them, then animate and style them with smart UI. Hyperdeck is a native app that combines the best of both worlds in one iPad / macOS app.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPad
     
  6. Slidify icon
     2 likes

    Slidify is a commandline tool that helps you create and publish beautiful HTML5 presentations from RMarkdown.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Spectacle is a React.js based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax (with the ability to live demo your code!)

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Presenta Playground is an online tool based on Presenta Lib, a javascript library that generates web presentations from config objects.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Ludus icon
     14 likes

    Limitless creativity for your slides. Ludus is like a powerpoint but for creatives & designers embracing web technologies.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Sent icon
     1 like

    Sent is a presentation tool for the commandline. It uses plaintext files to describe the slides and can also display images. Every paragraph represents a slide in the presentation. Especially for presentations using the Takahashi method this is very nice and allows you to write...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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