Alternatives

Foam alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Foam

A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

100
Quality
91
Trust
17K
Stars
#1

Dendron

Similarity 145Trust 89Excellent 92

The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!

7.4K starsNov 13, 2025 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add dendronhq/dendron
#2

Lumen

Similarity 129Trust 84Strong 76

A free, open-source note-taking app that syncs with markdown files in your GitHub repository

709 starsFeb 25, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add lumen-notes/lumen
#3

Mdx Notes

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 93

⛷ Cross-platform note-taking software, public layout editor, using MDX ⛷ 跨平台笔记软件,公众号排版编辑器,使用MDX来排版

1.6K starsFeb 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add maqi1520/mdx-notes
#4

MiaoYan

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.

8.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add tw93/MiaoYan
#5

Milkdown

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 100

🍼 Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework.

12K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add Milkdown/milkdown
#6

App

Similarity 123Trust 96Excellent 100

Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.

6.5K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add standardnotes/app
#7

Silverbullet

Similarity 123Trust 96Excellent 100

An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua

5.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add silverbulletmd/silverbullet
#8

Gramax

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 85

Embrace a docs-as-code approach to build, version, and publish Git-driven documentation sites using Markdown and a visual editor

580 starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add Gram-ax/gramax
#9

Alexandrie

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

Self-hosted knowledge base with extended Markdown, Kanban, OIDC/SSO, PWA & offline support. Deploy in one command.

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add Smaug6739/Alexandrie
#10

Flatnotes

Similarity 122Trust 90Excellent 96

A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.

3.1K starsFeb 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add dullage/flatnotes
#11

Editor

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

A rich text editor React component for markdown

3.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add mdx-editor/editor
#12

Vscode Markdown

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

Markdown All in One

3.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add yzhang-gh/vscode-markdown
#13

React Md Editor

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

A simple markdown editor with preview, implemented with React.js and TypeScript.

2.9K starsMay 21, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add uiwjs/react-md-editor
#14

Md Editor V3

Similarity 121Trust 94Excellent 100

Markdown editor for vue3, developed in jsx and typescript, dark theme、beautify content by prettier、render articles directly、paste or clip the picture and upload it...

2.5K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add imzbf/md-editor-v3
#15

Vscode Front Matter

Similarity 121Trust 94Excellent 100

Front Matter is a CMS running straight in Visual Studio Code. Can be used with static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll, Hexo, NextJs, Gatsby, and many more...

2.5K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add estruyf/vscode-front-matter
#16

MarkFlowy

Similarity 121Trust 92Excellent 100

The AI Markdown Editor

2.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add drl990114/MarkFlowy

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