Alternatives

Citar alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Citar

Emacs package to quickly find and act on bibliographic references, and edit org, markdown, and latex academic documents.

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#1

Marktext

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

57K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add marktext/marktext
#2

Jabref

Similarity 118Trust 93Excellent 100

Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases

4.4K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaOCR
$ npx skills add JabRef/jabref
#3

PasteMD

Similarity 117Trust 95Excellent 100

一键将 Markdown 和网页 AI 对话(ChatGPT/DeepSeek等)完美粘贴到 Word、WPS 和 Excel 的效率工具 | One-click paste Markdown and AI responses (ChatGPT/DeepSeek) into Word, WPS, and Excel perfectly.

5.0K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonMarkdown
$ npx skills add RICHQAQ/PasteMD
#4

Freeplane

Similarity 116Trust 95Excellent 100

Application for Mind Mapping, Knowledge Management, Project Management. Develop, organize and communicate your ideas and knowledge in the most effective way.

4.2K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaMarkdown
$ npx skills add freeplane/freeplane
#5

Cocalc

Similarity 113Trust 89Excellent 97

CoCalc: Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud

1.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add sagemathinc/cocalc
#6

Djot

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

A light markup language

2.0K starsMay 30, 2026 pushdocument-processingEmacs LispMarkdown
$ npx skills add jgm/djot
#7

Mistletoe

Similarity 112Trust 91Excellent 96

A fast, extensible and spec-compliant Markdown parser in pure Python.

1.1K starsMay 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonMarkdown
$ npx skills add miyuchina/mistletoe
#8

Memos

Similarity 112Trust 96Excellent 100

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.

61K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add usememos/memos
#9

Docsify

Similarity 112Trust 96Excellent 100

🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

31K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add docsifyjs/docsify
#10

Prettier

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

52K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add prettier/prettier
#11

Slidev

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

Presentation Slides for Developers

47K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add slidevjs/slidev
#12

Pandoc

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

Universal markup converter

45K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingHaskellMarkdown
$ npx skills add jgm/pandoc
#13

Gitbook

Similarity 112Trust 95Excellent 100

The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook
#14

Markdown It

Similarity 112Trust 98Excellent 100

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed

22K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markdown-it/markdown-it
#15

AFFiNE

Similarity 112Trust 94Excellent 100

There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.

69K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add toeverything/AFFiNE
#16

Rich

Similarity 112Trust 94Excellent 100

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

57K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonMarkdown
$ npx skills add Textualize/rich

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