Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Betterpress, a collaborative publishing platform launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Brackets 1.0▲190

   An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Editorially▲95

   Collaborative writing tool

   2013 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Markdoc▲84

   A shared Markdown editor for people and their agents

   15d ago · markdoc.app · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Public Parts▲83

   How sharing in the digital age improves the way we work

   2015 · audible.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Sitedrop▲83

   A visual way to collaborate using Dropbox

   2014 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Datastory▲118

   Turn the world's data into stories worth sharing

   23d ago · datastory.tech · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Wikinomics▲59

   How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Addr▲98

   A collective and annotation-focus ePub reader

   2014 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Collaborate on Slides▲99

   Shared editing and per-slide feedback on presentations

   2016 · slides.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Jottings▲95

    Real-time collaboration in Markdown

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Contentify▲70

    a real-time collaborative content manager on top of Github

    2014 · thyb.github.io · its alternatives →

12. 12FE
    Front-end content publishing for WordPress▲5

    2015 · buddyforms.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Ultravisual▲68

    Beautiful visual publishing.

    2014 · ultravisual.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    NimbusFoundry▲59

    Framework for building front-end collaborative apps

    2014 · nimbusfoundry.com · its alternatives →

15. 15GO
    Go On Go Out – An events aggregation and publishing platform▲8

    2015 · goongoout.com · its alternatives →

16. 16IM
    I made an open-source publishing platform (with minimal JavaScript)▲41

    2021 · zentrum.alles.cx · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Proof▲12

    A platform focused on the craft of digital publishing

    2017 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Sumbli▲7

    Collaborative content

    2018 · its alternatives →

19. 19GC
    glipho.com, newborn approach to social content publishing▲5

    2012 · glipho.com · its alternatives →

20. 20PA
    Polyphony – A realtime collaborative text editing lib for web/mobile▲8

    2014 · polyphony-ot.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    QuarkXpress▲11

    Page layout software for design and publishing

    2014 · en.wikipedia.org · its alternatives →

22. 22TD
    Tandem – Decentralized, cross-editor, collaborative editing▲6

    2018 · typeintandem.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Accelerated Mobile Pages Project▲21

    An open source initiative to create mobile-friendly content

    2015 · amp.dev · its alternatives →

24. 24PM
    Pond – Modern Paper Reading and Sharing Platform▲5

    2023 · entepond.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →