Alternatives

Down alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Down

Blazing fast Markdown / CommonMark rendering in Swift, built upon cmark.

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Trust
2.5K
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#1

Marktext

Similarity 128Trust 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

Prettier

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.

52K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add prettier/prettier
#3

Turndown

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

🛏 An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript

11K starsMay 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLMarkdown
$ npx skills add mixmark-io/turndown
#4

Remark

Similarity 125Trust 91Excellent 100

markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective

8.9K starsFeb 24, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add remarkjs/remark
#5

MarkEdit

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.

5.0K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit
#6

Swift Markdown Ui

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 97

Maintenance mode — new development in Textual: https://github.com/gonzalezreal/textual

3.9K starsDec 28, 2025 pushdocument-processingSwiftMarkdown
$ npx skills add gonzalezreal/swift-markdown-ui
#7

MarkdownView

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 100

Markdown View for iOS.

2.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingHTMLMarkdown
$ npx skills add keitaoouchi/MarkdownView
#8

Tui.Editor

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 85

🍞📝 Markdown WYSIWYG Editor. GFM Standard + Chart & UML Extensible.

18K starsAug 1, 2024 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add nhn/tui.editor
#9

Html To Markdown

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 98

Convert HTML to Markdown with PHP

1.9K starsApr 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPMarkdown
$ npx skills add thephpleague/html-to-markdown
#10

Md4c

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification.

1.4K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add mity/md4c
#11

Pandoc

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

Universal markup converter

45K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingHaskellMarkdown
$ npx skills add jgm/pandoc
#12

Markdown It

Similarity 120Trust 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
#13

Marked

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.

37K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markedjs/marked
#14

Showdown

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 100

A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript

15K starsJan 2, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add showdownjs/showdown
#15

Vditor

Similarity 118Trust 93Excellent 100

♏ 一款浏览器端的 Markdown 编辑器,支持所见即所得(富文本)、即时渲染(类似 Typora)和分屏预览模式。An In-browser Markdown editor, support WYSIWYG (Rich Text), Instant Rendering (Typora-like) and Split View modes.

11K starsFeb 7, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add Vanessa219/vditor
#16

MiaoYan

Similarity 117Trust 94Excellent 100

⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.

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

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