Alternatives to md4c
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. md4c itself: install md4c.
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
mdq
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
MarkText
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
shfmt
A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
libfuse@2
The reference implementation of the Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) interface
gdu
Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go
autorest
OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) Specification code generator. Supports C#, PowerShell, Go, Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
sbjson
This framework implements a strict JSON parser and generator in Objective-C
marksman
Write Markdown with code assist and intelligence in the comfort of your favourite editor
zenith
Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage
inih
Simple .INI file parser in C, good for embedded systems
lol-html
Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter with CSS selector-based API
helm-docs
A tool for automatically generating markdown documentation for helm charts
markdown-toc
API and CLI for generating a markdown TOC (table of contents) for a README or any markdown files. Uses Remarkable to parse markdown. Used by NASA/open
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than md4c — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
md4c is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.