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hackmdio/codimd Alternatives

realtime collaborative Markdown notes

CodiMD is a self-hosted real-time collaborative Markdown note-taking web application (the open-source core of HackMD).

10.1kJavaScriptAGPL-3.0slowing Β· last push 1.0y agoGitHub

Drop-in peers

Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.

hedgedoc/hedgedocGitHub

Active continuation of CodiMD/HedgeDoc; pick this for maintained features and fixes.

HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together

7.4k
TypeScript
AGPL-3.0
active2mo ago

Same job, different approach

Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.

Smaug6739/AlexandrieGitHub

Self-hosted team wiki with advanced Markdown and SSO; choose for offline-first multi-tenant deployment.

πŸ“š The open-source, offline-first Notion, Obsidian & Confluence alternative. Advanced Markdown, multi-tenant teams, OIDC/SSO, and local S3 backups. Deploy in one command.

2.4k
Vue
MIT
active2mo ago
nextcloud/textGitHub

Collaborative Markdown app inside Nextcloud; choose if you already run Nextcloud.

πŸ“‘ Collaborative document editing using Markdown

653
JavaScript
AGPL-3.0
active2mo ago
teamtype/teamtypeGitHub

Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files; choose for P2P/editor-agnostic collab.

Peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic collaborative editing of local text files.

1.9k
Rust
AGPL-3.0
active2mo ago

Older generation, or narrower

An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.

perber/leafwikiGitHub

Minimal self-hosted static wiki with Markdown-on-disk; choose when realtime collab is unneeded.

LeafWiki - Self-hosted wiki. Single Go binary, SQLite, Markdown on disk. No external database required.

1.1k
Go
MIT
active2mo ago

Listed as an alternative to

These projects were analysed and named codimd among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric β€” how codimd rates them is a separate judgement, made when codimd is analysed in its own right.

suitenumerique/docsGitHub

calls codimd β€œChoose when you want a mature, real-time collaborative Markdown editor with slide mode and no block-based paradigm.”

Docs is an open-source text editor: web-native, made for real-time collaboration, cleanly structured documents and sub-documents with full ownership of your data. Built to scale with Django and React.

16.7kPythonactive
usememos/memosGitHub

calls codimd β€œChoose if you need real-time collaborative Markdown editing in a self-hosted app instead of personal timeline notes.”

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.

62.5kGoactive
blinkospace/blinkoGitHub

calls codimd β€œchoose when you need real-time collaborative markdown editing with self-hosting.”

An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .

10.9kTypeScriptactive
xwmx/nbGitHub

calls codimd β€œChoose when you need real-time collaborative markdown on a central server.”

CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

8.4kShellactive
glushchenko/fsnotesGitHub

calls codimd β€œchoose if you need real-time collaborative Markdown notes on a shared web instance.”

Fast Markdown note-taking app for Mac and iPhone

7.5kSwiftactive
standardnotes/appGitHub

calls codimd β€œchoose when you need realtime collaborative Markdown for a team, not private E2EE notes.”

Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.

6.6kTypeScriptactive
hedgedoc/hedgedocGitHub

calls codimd β€œuse only to stay on the older CodiMD codebase; HedgeDoc is the actively developed successor.”

HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together

7.4kTypeScriptactive