Open Source Linux Markdown Editors
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View 27 business solutionsBrowse free open source Markdown Editors and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Markdown Editors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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MarkText
A simple and elegant markdown editor
MarkText is an MIT licensed open source project, and the latest version will always be downloadable for free from the GitHub release page. MarkText is still in development, and its development is inseparable from all sponsors. Realtime preview (WYSIWYG) and a clean and simple interface to get a distraction-free writing experience. Support CommonMark Spec, GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec and selective support Pandoc markdown. Markdown extensions such as math expressions (KaTeX), front matter and emojis. Support paragraphs and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency. Output HTML and PDF files. Various themes: Cadmium Light, Material Dark etc. Various editing modes: Source Code mode, Typewriter mode, Focus mode. Paste images directly from clipboard. -
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MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
MarkEdit is a free and open-source Markdown editor, for macOS. It's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown. -
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OneNote Md Exporter
ConsoleApp to export OneNote notebooks to Markdown formats
OneNote Md Exporter is a console application running on Windows that exports your OneNote notebooks in different markdown formats. Evaluate or migrate to an alternative Knowledge Management Software like Joplin, Obsidian or other software based on Markdown format. Backup your OneNote Notebooks in an interoperable and open file format. -
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Notepads
A modern, lightweight text editor with a minimalist design
I have been waiting long enough for a modern Windows 10 notepad app to come before I decided to create one myself. Don’t get me wrong, Notepad++, VS Code, and Sublime are great text editors. I have used them all and I will continue to use them in the future. However, they are either too heavy or look less appealing. There are times that I just wanted to use Windows Notepad for things like writing notes or editing config files. So I decided to create a win32 notepad replacement here and try to give it a modern look and feel. Most importantly, it has to be blazingly fast and appeal to everyone. -
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Minder
Mind-mapping application for Elementary OS
Use the power of mind-mapping to make your ideas come to life. Mind-mapping application for Elementary OS -
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BookStack
Simple & Free Wiki Software
BookStack is a free and open source platform for storing and organising information and documentation. A self-hosted and opinionated wiki system, BookStack is simple and easy to use, giving even new users with just basic word-processing skills a pleasant out of the box experience. BookStack offers a relaxed, open and positive approach. While the platform can provide advanced power features to those who want them, it is primarily designed not to be extensible outside of its core purpose. That being said, BookStack already comes with plenty of powerful features, such as search and linking, cross-book sorting, image management and more. It is also multi-lingual and offers options for authentication integration. -
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Ferrite
A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML
Ferrite is a fast, lightweight desktop text editor built for people who spend a lot of time working in structured text formats and want a snappy, native-feeling app instead of a heavy IDE. It focuses on common “config and docs” formats like Markdown and popular structured data files, so it fits naturally into developer, DevOps, and technical writing workflows. The editor is designed around responsiveness and low overhead, prioritizing quick startup, smooth scrolling, and predictable editing even when you are jumping between many small files. It also aims to reduce friction when reading and tweaking structured documents by offering format-aware conveniences and a UI that stays out of the way. Ferrite positions itself as a pragmatic daily driver for notes, documentation, and configuration edits, especially when you do not need a full language server stack. -
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Markdown Viewer
Markdown Viewer / Browser Extension
Markdown Viewer and Browser Extension. -
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ARIS
Lightweight Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research
ARIS is an experimental automation framework that leverages AI coding agents to perform continuous research and development tasks autonomously, even without active user supervision. The system is designed to run iterative cycles of research, coding, testing, and refinement, effectively simulating a “sleep mode” where productive work continues in the background. It integrates with AI tools such as Claude Code to generate solutions, analyze results, and improve outputs over time. The project emphasizes long-running workflows that can explore problem spaces more deeply than manual intervention would typically allow. It also highlights the potential of autonomous agents to handle repetitive or exploratory tasks that would otherwise require significant human effort. The framework is particularly relevant for developers interested in automated experimentation, continuous learning systems, and AI-driven productivity. -
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Notable
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
Notes are written in Markdown, plus you can write KaTeX expressions, Mermaid diagrams and more, check out our Markdown cheatsheet. Notable provides a very powerful Markdown editor, it's the same one VS Code uses in fact, so features like multi-cursors, a minimap and best-in-class syntax highlighting are built-in. Notes and attachments are simply stored on your disk, this is extremely portable and powerful: you could edit your notes via a third-party editor on mobile, have them synchronized via Dropbox, use Git, run a regex-based search and replace etc. A dark theme is also available. In the future support for custom themes will be added as well. Zen mode provides a minimalistic editing and reading experience, hiding everything that's not necessary. Notable is also keyboard friendly, has a quick open window, and we'll soon add a command palette too, so you won't have to click any buttons if you don't want to. -
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markdown-it
Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions
markdown-it is a fast and extensible JavaScript-based Markdown parser designed to convert Markdown text into HTML while maintaining strict compliance with the CommonMark specification and offering additional syntax enhancements. It is widely used in web applications, documentation tools, and content platforms due to its high performance and flexibility. The library is built with a rule-based parsing system that allows developers to customize or replace syntax rules, making it adaptable to a wide variety of use cases. It also supports plugins that extend functionality, such as adding emoji support, footnotes, or custom containers, enabling highly tailored rendering pipelines. markdown-it emphasizes security by default, ensuring that generated HTML is safe for use in web environments without introducing vulnerabilities. Its architecture balances speed and extensibility, making it suitable for both lightweight applications and large-scale content systems. -
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Markdown PDF
Markdown converter for Visual Studio Code
This extension converts Markdown files to PDF, HTML, PNG or JPEG files. -
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StackEdit
In-browser Markdown editor
Unrivalled writing experience. StackEdit’s Markdown syntax highlighting is unique. The refined text formatting of the editor helps you visualize the final rendering of your files. StackEdit provides very handy formatting buttons and shortcuts, thanks to PageDown, the WYSIWYG-style Markdown editor used by Stack Overflow. Whether you write, you review, you comment… StackEdit's layout provides you with the flexibility you need, without sacrifice. StackEdit’s Scroll Sync feature accurately binds the scrollbars of the editor panel and the preview panel to ensure that you always keep an eye on the output while writing. StackEdit can sync your files with Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub. It can also publish them as blog posts to Blogger, WordPress and Zendesk. You can choose whether to upload in Markdown format, HTML, or to format the output using the Handlebars template engine. -
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Zettlr
A Markdown Editor for the 21st century
Writing is an essential part of our everyday life. Why make it complicated? Zettlr redefines what writing means. It is slim, fast, and versatile. Focus on what matters to you. Publish, not perish. In modern times, getting a hold of the flood of information is almost as hard as inserting a USB drive the right way on the first attempt. Zettlr allows you to connect pieces of information using state of the art Zettelkasten methodology. Links? Check. File IDs? Check. File tagging? Also check. And the best is, unlike many competitors, Zettlr never locks you in. Zettlr supports almost every conceivable way to create links and identify your files. In other words: No matter where you come from — all Zettelkästen are beautiful and supported by Zettlr. Out of the box. Zettlr integrates well with reference managers such as Zotero, JabRef, or Juris-M. Simply load your library into Zettlr, and begin to cite. Zettlr strictly adheres to established standards and does not reinvent the wheel. -
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MinDoc
Document management system developed for the IT team
MinDoc is a simple and easy-to-use document management system developed for the IT team. MinDoc's predecessor was the SmartWiki document system. SmartWiki is a document management system developed based on the PHP framework laravel. Because the deployment of PHP is too complicated for ordinary users, it was developed instead of Golang. It can facilitate user deployment and practicality. The starting point for development is that the company's IT department needs a simple and practical system for document management and sharing of project interfaces. Its function and interface originate from kancloud. It can be used to store daily interface documents, database dictionaries, manual descriptions and other documents. Built-in project management, user management, permission management and other functions can meet the document management needs of most small and medium teams. -
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PanWriter
Markdown editor with pandoc integration and paginated preview
PanWriter is a distraction-free markdown editor with two unique features. Tight integration with pandoc for import/export to/from plenty of file formats (including HTML, docx, LaTeX and EPUB). Preview pane that can show pages – including page breaks etc. Layout adjustments are immediately reflected in the preview. Instead, you can write text in Markdown, a convention on how to write plain text files. Basically, it’s like you would write an email. -
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Quarkdown
Markdown with superpowers, from ideas to papers, and presentations
Quarkdown is a lightweight Markdown processor and static site generator written in Java. It converts Markdown files into styled HTML pages with customizable themes, supporting blog creation and simple documentation websites. Quarkdown emphasizes simplicity and speed, providing an out-of-the-box experience for minimal personal sites. -
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Pix2Text
Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, and math
An Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, math formulas, and text in images, converting them into Markdown format. A free alternative to Mathpix, empowering seamless conversion of visual content into text-based representations. 80+ languages are supported. Pix2Text (P2T) aims to be a free and open-source Python alternative to Mathpix, and it can already accomplish Mathpix's core functionality. Pix2Text (P2T) can recognize layouts, tables, images, text, and mathematical formulas, and integrate all of these contents into Markdown format. P2T can also convert an entire PDF file (which can contain scanned images or any other format) into Markdown format. -
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bookdown
Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown
A open-source (GPL-3) R package to facilitate writing books and long-form articles/reports with R Markdown. Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents. A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and citations. Multiple choices of output formats: PDF, LaTeX, HTML, EPUB, and Word. Possibility of including dynamic graphics and interactive applications (HTML widgets and Shiny apps) Support for languages other than R, including C/C++, Python, and SQL, etc. LaTeX equations, theorems, and proofs work for all output formats. Can be published to GitHub, bookdown.org, and any web servers. Integrated with the RStudio IDE. The easiest way to start a new Bookdown project is from within RStudio IDE. Go to File, New Project, New Directory, Book project using bookdown. -
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Dillinger
The last Markdown editor, ever
Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible, AngularJS-powered HTML5 Markdown editor. Markdown is a lightweight markup language based on the formatting conventions that people naturally use in email. The overriding design goal for Markdown's formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. Dillinger uses a number of open source projects to work properly. Dillinger uses Gulp + Webpack for fast developing. Make a change in your file and instantaneously see your updates! Dillinger is very easy to install and deploy in a Docker container. -
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Django MarkdownX
Comprehensive Markdown plugin built for Django
Django MarkdownX is a comprehensive Markdown plugin built for Django, the renowned high-level Python web framework, with flexibility, extensibility, and ease-of-use at its core. -
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Inkdown
A WYSIWYG Markdown editor, improve reading and editing experience
Inkdown (bluestone) is a Markdown reading, editing, and sharing tool. Almost fully compatible with the GitHub Flavored Markdown standard, while extending the Mermaid graphics and Katex formula, supporting light and dark styles, and somewhat different from other WYSIWYG editors, Inkdown does not pursue complete customization. Its core goal is comfortable reading, smooth editing of Markdown, and document sharing in the simplest way possible. As a document publisher, markdown source code mode is undoubtedly efficient and free, but as a note, it is not conducive to reading. The table element of markdown is not conducive to writing, and the double-column mode is not conducive to focusing, so the Inkdown Editor was developed. It combines rich text with markdown editing habits to help you record daily, and saves it in standard markdown format, which allows your notes to be used anywhere and backed up in any way. -
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Jupytext
Jupyter Notebooks as Markdown Documents, Julia, Python or R scripts
Have you always wished Jupyter notebooks were plain text documents? Wished you could edit them in your favorite IDE? And get clear and meaningful diffs when doing version control? Then, Jupytext may well be the tool you’re looking for. Only the notebook inputs (and optionally, the metadata) are included. Text notebooks are well suited for version control. You can also edit or refactor them in an IDE - the .py notebook above is a regular Python file. Text notebooks with a .py or .md extension are well suited for version control. They can be edited or authored conveniently in an IDE. You can open and run them as notebooks in Jupyter Lab with a right click. However, the notebook outputs are lost when the notebook is closed, as only the notebook inputs are saved in text notebooks. -
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Mark
Sync your markdown files with Confluence pages
Mark, a tool for syncing your markdown documentation with Atlassian Confluence pages. This is very useful if you store documentation to your software in a Git repository and don't want to do the extra job of updating the Confluence page using a tinymce wysiwyg enterprise core editor which always breaks everything. Mark does the same but in a different way. Mark reads your markdown file, creates a Confluence page if it's not found by its name, uploads attachments, translates Markdown into HTML, and updates the contents of the page via REST API. It's like you don't even need to create sections/pages in your Confluence anymore, just use them in your Markdown documentation. Mark uses an extended file format, which, still being valid markdown, contains several HTML-ish metadata headers, which can be used to locate a page inside the Confluence instance and update it accordingly. -
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Notepad
[iOS] A fully themeable markdown editor with live syntax highlighting
A simple Markdown editor. Notepad gives your users the ability to write and edit Markdown directly in your app. With a JSON stylesheet, it's fully themeable. Add it to your app with only a few lines of code`. Notepad is fully hackable and open-source.
