Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Text is
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Text is launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can't. I went down the ContentEditable rabbit hole for a few years, but always came to realize others had solved it…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Experience the joy and speed of pure text, with AI copilot
Oct 2025 · funblocks.net · its alternatives →
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A clean Markdown editor with a smooth, block-based UX
Apr 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, This is a TUI app which displays interactive Markdown documents. Interactive in the sense that you can scroll code fences / tables / and click links. There's a Table of Contents extracted from the MD, and a very rudimentary browser like forward + back. I'm thinking it could be the starting point for a variety of hypertext like applications in the terminal. Very much a work in progress.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · notepag.es · its alternatives →
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2022 · content-parser.com · its alternatives →
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