Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Caret

Product categories

Developer Tools IDE Knowledge Base Knowledge Management Markdown Editor Markdown Viewer Note Taking Notes Office & Productivity Office Suites Software Development Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Caret are Typora, Dillinger, and Visual Studio Code. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Typora Landing Page
1

Typora

A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions
Dillinger Landing Page
2

Dillinger

joemccann has 95 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 23 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
3

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1009 social mentions
StackEdit Landing Page
4

StackEdit

Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 49 social mentions
MacDown Landing Page
5

MacDown

MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for OS X, released under the MIT License.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 7 social mentions
Apache OpenOffice Landing Page
6

Apache OpenOffice

Apache OpenOffice is an open source, office document productivity suite.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 13 social mentions
Boostnote Landing Page
7

Boostnote

Boostnote is an open-source note-taking app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions
iA Writer Landing Page
8

iA Writer

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $29.99 / One-off
#Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Writing Tools 6 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
9

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
10

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Zettlr Landing Page
11

Zettlr

Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Markdown Editor #Knowledge Management 10 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
12

Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions