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. Polyphony – A realtime collaborative text editing lib for web/mobile launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Jottings▲95

   Real-time collaboration in Markdown

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Atom▲145

   A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

   2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Brackets 1.0▲190

   An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Editorially▲95

   Collaborative writing tool

   2013 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Typewrite▲103

   Real-time collaborative writing

   2014 · typewrite.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Squire▲123

   The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.

   2014 · neilj.github.io · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Collaborative text editing in ~220 lines of JavaScript▲5

   2021 · git.ce9e.org · its alternatives →

8. 8
   FocusWrite▲115

   A local-first writing app with focus modes.

   11d ago · focuswrite.app · its alternatives →

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   Spreadsheets for hierarchical data – real-time collaborative editing▲5

   2016 · datascribbler.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Liquid Text 2.0▲157

    A better way to understand text - across multiple documents

    2016 · liquidtext.net · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Collaborate on Slides▲99

    Shared editing and per-slide feedback on presentations

    2016 · slides.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Paragraph Notes▲155

    A private Markdown notes app for Mac

    Sep 2026 · paragraphnotes.md · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Atavist▲116

    A web-based word processor as beautiful as Medium

    2015 · magazine.atavist.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Fulvid▲86

    A standalone desktop editor for Markdown and MDX

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15TD
    Tandem – Decentralized, cross-editor, collaborative editing▲6

    2018 · typeintandem.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Etherpad▲1

    Collaborative editing in really real-time

    2016 · etherpad.org · its alternatives →

17. 17
    CotEditor▲102

    The free plain-text editor for OS X

    2014 · coteditor.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Composé▲91

    An editor for creating interactive iOS prototypes and apps

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    MuM▲93

    A reading-first Markdown engine for macOS

    23d ago · mum.jiker.ai · its alternatives →

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    KeenWrite, a Desktop Text Editor▲6

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Markdoc▲84

    A shared Markdown editor for people and their agents

    14d ago · markdoc.app · its alternatives →

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    Collaborative editing with Quill▲5

    2018 · codepen.io · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Contentify▲70

    a real-time collaborative content manager on top of Github

    2014 · thyb.github.io · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Accelerated Mobile Pages Project▲21

    An open source initiative to create mobile-friendly content

    2015 · amp.dev · 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 →