Alternatives to mdq
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. mdq itself: install mdq.
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
md4c
C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification
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
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
trivy
Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
eslint
Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
npm-check-updates
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
bandit
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code
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
zsh-autocomplete
🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion
pidcat
Colored logcat script which only shows log entries for a specific application package
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
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
cargo-bloat
Find out what takes most of the space in your executable
inframap
Read your tfstate or HCL to generate a graph specific for each provider, showing only the resources that are most important/relevant
fastmod
A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool. Assists with large-scale codebase refactors via regex-based find and replace with human oversight and
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 mdq — 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.
mdq 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.