Open-source markdown software
741 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged markdown, ranked by how closely markdown is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
741 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| tighten/jigsaw Jigsaw is a static site generator framework for PHP developers that uses Laravel's Blade templating engine and Markdown for content. It sup… | 87 | 2256 | active |
| matthewwithanm/python-markdownify A Python library that converts HTML documents into Markdown text, built on BeautifulSoup. It offers configurable options for stripping tags… | 78 | 2249 | active |
| dhruvasagar/vim-table-mode A Vim plugin that enables automatic creation and formatting of neat ASCII/Markdown tables as you type. It auto-aligns columns, draws separa… | 52 | 2247 | active |
| zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki Zim is a graphical desktop wiki and text editor for maintaining a collection of locally stored wiki pages with links, formatting, and attac… | 76 | 2206 | stable |
| TaskNotes TaskNotes is an Obsidian plugin for task and time-tracking management where each task is a separate Markdown note with YAML frontmatter, an… | 82 | 2199 | active |
| BaldissaraMatheus/Tasks.md Tasks.md is a self-hosted kanban-style task management board where cards are stored as Markdown files. It ships as a single Docker image wi… | 70 | 2197 | active |
| keitaoouchi/MarkdownView A Swift library that renders Markdown as styled HTML inside a native iOS UIView using WKWebView, markdown-it, and highlight.js. It supports… | 81 | 2178 | active |
| manuelernestog/weektodo WeekToDo is a free, open-source, minimalist weekly planner and to-do list app that combines a calendar and task lists in one interface. It … | 34 | 2178 | active |
| Alir3z4/html2text A Python library and CLI script that converts HTML pages into clean plain ASCII text that is valid Markdown. Originally written by Aaron Sw… | 41 | 2175 | active |
| obsidian-nvim/obsidian.nvim A community-maintained Neovim plugin for working with Obsidian markdown vaults directly inside the editor. It complements the Obsidian app … | 84 | 2172 | active |
| rstudio/gt gt is an R package for creating information-rich, publication-quality display tables from data frames or tibbles using a cohesive set of ta… | 79 | 2162 | active |
| Automattic/simplenote-ios The official open-source Simplenote client for iOS, written in Swift. It provides note-taking with real-time syncing via the Simperium prot… | 67 | 2150 | active |
| taniarascia/taniarascia.com The source code for Tania Rascia's personal website and blog, built with Gatsby, React, and Node.js and deployed on Netlify. It hosts her t… | 63 | 2135 | active |
| markpluslabs/react-markplus MarkPlus is a React component library providing a markdown editor with live preview, toolbar, themes, and KaTeX math support. It can also b… | 32 | 2115 | active |
| Markdown Preview Enhanced Markdown Preview Enhanced is an editor extension that provides a rich live preview of Markdown files with support for math (KaTeX/MathJax),… | 98 | 2103 | active |
| platers/obsidian-linter An Obsidian.md plugin that formats and styles Markdown notes with a focus on configurability and extensibility. It provides toggleable rule… | 96 | 2097 | active |
| markdownlint/markdownlint markdownlint (mdl) is a Ruby-based command-line tool that checks Markdown files and flags style issues according to configurable rules. It … | 75 | 2077 | active |
| lin-snow/Ech0 Ech0 is an open-source, self-hosted lightweight publishing platform for sharing personal ideas and short notes, built with Go and Vue 3 on … | 83 | 2076 | active |
| retext-project/retext ReText is a simple but powerful desktop editor for markup languages such as Markdown, reStructuredText, Textile, and AsciiDoc, built with P… | 66 | 2059 | active |
| RivoLink/leaf leaf is a terminal-based Markdown previewer written in Rust that renders files with rich formatting, syntax highlighting, LaTeX math, and M… | 75 | 2058 | active |
| Djot Djot is a lightweight markup language derived from CommonMark that fixes CommonMark's parsing ambiguities while adding features like footno… | 60 | 2048 | active |
| ObsidianToAnki/Obsidian_to_Anki A tool that adds flashcards from text/markdown files to Anki, usable both as an Obsidian community plugin and as a standalone Python comman… | 23 | 2041 | active |
| fccview/jotty Jotty (jotty·page) is a self-hosted web application for managing personal notes and checklists, storing everything as Markdown and JSON fil… | 80 | 2023 | active |
| themsaid/ibis Ibis is a PHP command-line tool for writing eBooks in Markdown and converting them into styled PDF files. It generates a cover page, clicka… | 28 | 2008 | active |
| TidGi TidGi is an Electron-based desktop note-taking and knowledge management app built on TiddlyWiki, featuring automatic Git backup, REST API i… | 95 | 2002 | active |
| gcui-art/markdown-to-image A React component library that renders Markdown into visually appealing poster images optimized for social media sharing, with support for … | 26 | 1990 | active |
| secure-77/Perlite Perlite is a self-hosted, web-based markdown viewer optimized for Obsidian vaults, serving as an open-source alternative to Obsidian Publis… | 54 | 1983 | active |
| starred A Python CLI tool that generates a Markdown Awesome-style list from a user's GitHub starred repositories, grouped by language or topic. It … | 62 | 1960 | active |
| simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf A hackable Node.js CLI tool that converts Markdown files to PDF using Marked for HTML conversion and Puppeteer (headless Chromium) for rend… | 48 | 1960 | active |
| Dendron Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based personal knowledge management (PKM) tool built for developers, integrating natively … | 52 | 7467 | maintenance |
| django-wiki/django-wiki django-wiki is a wiki system built as a reusable Django application, storing articles as Django models with Markdown editing and a plugin a… | 81 | 1940 | active |
| Flutter-Bounty-Hunters/super_editor Super Editor is an open-source, configurable, composable, and extensible rich-text editor and document renderer toolkit for Flutter. It is … | 77 | 1937 | active |
| Lulzx/tinypdf tinypdf is a minimal TypeScript library for creating PDF documents with under 400 lines of code and zero dependencies. It supports text, sh… | 65 | 1923 | active |
| Mintlify Documentation The official starter kit template for creating documentation projects on Mintlify, written in MDX. It ships with example guide pages, navig… | 68 | 1918 | active |
| Automattic/simplenote-android The official open-source Android client for Simplenote, a free cross-platform note-taking app with real-time syncing, tagging, Markdown sup… | 90 | 1910 | active |
| thephpleague/html-to-markdown A PHP library that converts HTML documents into Markdown text. It is part of the League of Extraordinary Packages and supports configurable… | 100 | 1905 | stable |
| markdown-viewer/markdown-viewer-extension A Markdown viewer and exporter available as a browser extension (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) plus Obsidian and VS Code plugins, with a Node.js h… | 82 | 1886 | active |
| taniarascia/takenote TakeNote is a web-based, plain-text note-taking app for developers with markdown preview, syntax highlighting, and an IDE-like editing expe… | 23 | 7126 | maintenance |
| LetTTGACO/elog Elog is an open-source cross-platform blogging solution that syncs Markdown documents from writing platforms (Notion, Yuque, FlowUs, Feishu… | 74 | 1875 | active |
| DeppWang/youdaonote-pull A Python script that exports and backs up all notes from Youdao Note (有道云笔记) to local storage. It converts note files to Markdown and downl… | 23 | 1866 | active |
| MohamedRejeb/compose-rich-editor A rich text editor library for Jetpack Compose and Compose Multiplatform, fully customizable and supporting common WYSIWYG text styling fea… | 88 | 1853 | stable |
| tianyaxiang/neurapress NeuraPress is a modern web-based Markdown editor focused on producing well-formatted content for WeChat Official Accounts, with live previe… | 54 | 1840 | active |
| realdennis/md2pdf An offline web application that converts Markdown files to PDF using a split-pane editor and browser print-to-PDF. It runs entirely client-… | 57 | 1839 | stable |
| joeyespo/grip Grip is a Python command-line tool that renders local GitHub README.md files exactly as they will appear on GitHub, using GitHub's markdown… | 32 | 6842 | maintenance |
| wooorm/starry-night starry-night is an open-source JavaScript syntax highlighting library that replicates GitHub's PrettyLights highlighting using TextMate gra… | 90 | 1817 | active |
| OlaProeis/Ferrite Ferrite is a fast, lightweight desktop text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files, built in Rust with egui for a native, responsi… | 68 | 1817 | active |
| Planetable/Planet Planet is a free, open-source native macOS app (SwiftUI) for building and hosting decentralized blogs and websites on IPFS, with a built-in… | 92 | 1814 | active |
| akosbalasko/yarle Yarle is a desktop application and CLI tool that converts Evernote ENEX export files into Markdown, preserving metadata, attachments, links… | 62 | 1806 | active |
| rstudio/blogdown blogdown is an R package that turns R Markdown documents into blogs and websites, using Hugo (or Jekyll/Hexo) as the static site generator.… | 76 | 1792 | active |
| gettalong/kramdown kramdown is a fast, pure-Ruby library for parsing and converting a superset of Markdown (including GFM and PHP Markdown Extra extensions) t… | 48 | 1782 | stable |
| steven-jianhao-li/zotero-AI-Butler A Zotero plugin that acts as an AI-powered research butler: it automatically scans PDFs added to your Zotero library and sends them to a us… | 77 | 1765 | active |
| norwoodj/helm-docs helm-docs is a Go CLI tool that automatically generates markdown documentation for Helm charts. It parses chart metadata and values, extrac… | 59 | 1764 | active |
| html-to-text/node-html-to-text A Node.js monorepo providing an advanced HTML to plain text converter, available as a library (html-to-text) and a CLI (@html-to/text-cli),… | 73 | 1762 | active |
| 88250/solo Solo is a small, elegant Java-based blogging platform designed for programmers, part of the B3log distributed community network. It support… | 65 | 1746 | active |
| richardgill/llm-ui A React component library for rendering LLM output in web applications. It smoothly displays streamed tokens at native frame rate, removes … | 25 | 1746 | active |
| 小书匠 Xiaoshujiang (Story Writer) is a local-first, decentralized note-taking and knowledge management application built around a powerful Markdo… | 83 | 1739 | active |
| gomarkdown/markdown gomarkdown/markdown is a fast Go library for parsing Markdown text into an AST and rendering it as HTML, with support for common Markdown e… | 77 | 1738 | active |
| souvikinator/notion-to-md A Node.js/TypeScript library that converts Notion pages, blocks, and databases into Markdown, MDX, HTML, LaTeX, and other formats via the N… | 59 | 1738 | active |
| SimonFairbairn/SwiftyMarkdown A Swift library that converts Markdown files and strings into NSAttributedStrings with extensive customization options. It supports Apple p… | 32 | 1738 | stable |
| Comrak Markdown parser Comrak is a 100% CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown compatible parser and renderer written in Rust, usable as a library, CLI tool, or … | 99 | 1722 | stable |
| Code Surfer Code Surfer is a React/MDX component library that adds code highlighting, zooming, scrolling, focusing, and morphing animations to MDX Deck… | 32 | 6370 | maintenance |
| chroxify/haptic Haptic is an open-source, local-first, privacy-focused markdown note-taking app built with Tauri and Svelte, using PGlite as a local databa… | 33 | 1704 | active |
| simov/markdown-viewer A browser extension that renders Markdown files (local and remote) directly in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers. It… | 46 | 1695 | active |
| nvim-telekasten/telekasten.nvim A Neovim plugin written in Lua for managing a markdown-based zettelkasten/wiki with journal support, built on telescope.nvim. It provides s… | 61 | 1691 | active |
| simonw/claude-code-transcripts A Python CLI tool that converts Claude Code session files (JSON/JSONL) into clean, mobile-friendly, paginated HTML transcripts. It supports… | 52 | 1691 | active |
| statiqdev/Statiq Statiq is a flexible and extensible static site generation framework for .NET, evolving from the Wyam project. It provides over 100 modules… | 57 | 1688 | active |
| 88250/lute Lute is a structured Markdown engine implemented in Go and compiled to JavaScript via GopherJS. It fully implements the GFM/CommonMark spec… | 93 | 1677 | active |
| Obsidian An official Obsidian community plugin that imports notes from other apps and file formats (Evernote, Notion, OneNote, Apple Notes, Google K… | 93 | 1669 | active |
| alxnbl/onenote-md-exporter A Windows console application that exports OneNote notebooks to Markdown (and Joplin raw directory) formats, preserving section hierarchies… | 50 | 1648 | active |
| Kotlin The source repository for the official Kotlin programming language website, kotlinlang.org, built with TypeScript. It contains the site's p… | 77 | 1626 | active |
| yihong0618/gitblog A personal blog system that uses GitHub Issues as the writing interface and GitHub Actions to build and publish a static blog site with an … | 76 | 1626 | active |
| kristoff-it/zine Zine is a fast static site generator written in Zig that turns Markdown-based content (SuperMD) and HTML templates (SuperHTML) into static … | 91 | 1618 | active |
| elixir-lang/ex_doc ExDoc is a documentation generation tool for Elixir and Erlang projects that produces HTML, Markdown (including llms.txt), and EPUB output … | 97 | 1617 | active |
| Yu-Core/SwashbucklerDiary SwashbucklerDiary is an open-source, cross-platform local diary app built with Blazor (Hybrid, Server, and WebAssembly) and .NET MAUI. All … | 76 | 1614 | active |
| umodoc/editor Umo Editor is an open-source document editor component built on Vue3 and Tiptap3 that provides a Microsoft Word-like online editing experie… | 68 | 1612 | active |
| joelbqz/writer-computer Writer is a local-first desktop markdown editor built with Tauri v2, React, and Rust that keeps documents on disk and respects workspace .g… | 82 | 1608 | active |
| lonekorean/wordpress-export-to-markdown A Node.js command-line tool that converts a WordPress export XML file into Markdown files with frontmatter, downloading images and updating… | 87 | 1603 | stable |
| Ademking/MD-This-Page A browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that converts any webpage into clean, readable Markdown with one click, using Mozilla's Readabil… | 73 | 1598 | active |
| kovetskiy/mark Mark is a Go CLI tool that syncs markdown files with Atlassian Confluence pages via the REST API. It reads markdown with metadata headers o… | 95 | 1595 | active |
| erictli/scratch Scratch is a minimalist, offline-first markdown note-taking desktop app built with Tauri. Notes are stored as plain .md files with WYSIWYG … | 73 | 1595 | active |
| maqi1520/mdx-notes MDX Notes is a cross-platform Markdown note-taking application and WeChat Official Account typesetting editor built with MDX, Next.js, and … | 61 | 1595 | active |
| Typora Typora is a commercial, closed-source minimal Markdown editor with seamless live preview, available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. This rep… | 44 | 1591 | active |
| jonschlinkert/remarkable Remarkable is a fast, configurable Markdown parser for JavaScript with full CommonMark support, syntax extensions, and a plugin system for … | 23 | 5841 | maintenance |
| team-reflect/reflect-open An open-source, local-first note-taking app for Mac and iPhone that stores notes as plain Markdown files with daily notes, wiki links, back… | 82 | 1588 | active |
| appdev/siyuan-unlock An unlocked build of SiYuan, a privacy-first block-based note-taking application, that removes the login requirement so users can use the s… | 93 | 1582 | active |
| blackhole89/notekit NoteKit is a free-software hierarchical markdown notetaking application built on GTK+ 3, aiming to be a platform-independent OneNote altern… | 48 | 1571 | active |
| npryce/adr-tools A command-line tool for creating and managing a log of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) stored as numbered Markdown files in a project … | 23 | 5703 | maintenance |
| Automattic/simplenote-macos Simplenote for macOS is the official open-source macOS client for the Simplenote note-taking service, written in Swift. It provides lightwe… | 67 | 1556 | active |
| cobalt-org/cobalt.rs Cobalt is a straightforward static site generator written in Rust, inspired by Jekyll. It converts Markdown and template files into a compl… | 86 | 1538 | active |
| Blackfriday Blackfriday is a fast, paranoid Markdown processor library for Go that parses Markdown into an AST and renders HTML, with support for commo… | 23 | 5601 | maintenance |
| twibiral/obsidian-execute-code An Obsidian plugin that adds run buttons to code blocks in notes, executing code locally in many languages (Python, JavaScript, C++, Rust, … | 42 | 1534 | active |
| blacklanternsecurity/writehat WriteHat is a self-hosted web application for generating penetration test reports, converting Markdown to HTML to PDF without Microsoft Wor… | 62 | 1532 | active |
| Leecason/element-tiptap A WYSIWYG rich-text editor component for Vue 3 built on Tiptap 2 and Element Plus, with a legacy 1.0 version for Vue 2. It offers many out-… | 23 | 1532 | stable |
| gitcoffee-os/postbot PostBot is an open-source multi-platform content synchronization assistant that publishes articles, notes, images, videos, and audio to man… | 62 | 1524 | active |
| yihui/xaringan xaringan is an R package for creating HTML slide presentations with remark.js through R Markdown. It provides the moon_reader output format… | 36 | 1522 | stable |
| Sculpin Sculpin is a PHP-based static site generator that converts Markdown, Textile, and other text sources into static HTML using Twig templates.… | 94 | 1484 | active |
| kepano/clipper-templates A collection of templates for the Obsidian Web Clipper browser extension, covering generic schemas (recipes, products) and specific sites l… | 52 | 1484 | active |
| bholmesdev/hubble.md Hubble.md is a free, open-source desktop notetaking app built on Markdown and HTML, with a familiar Notion-like editing experience. It is d… | 81 | 1483 | active |
| GROWI GROWI is a self-hosted, open-source team collaboration wiki built with Node.js, React, and TypeScript. It lets teams create hierarchical ma… | 95 | 1471 | active |
| midudev/midudev midudev's personal GitHub profile README repository that automatically updates to show his latest YouTube videos, blog posts, and photos. I… | 76 | 1469 | active |