glow VS mdcat

Compare glow vs mdcat and see what are their differences.

glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! šŸ’…šŸ» (by charmbracelet)

mdcat

cat for markdown (by lunaryorn)
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glow mdcat
60 7
14,776 1,358
3.0% -
6.7 7.6
4 days ago about 2 years ago
Go Rust
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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glow

Posts with mentions or reviews of glow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.

mdcat

Posts with mentions or reviews of mdcat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-20.
  • Being Linux/terminal/neovim user, how would you view Markdown document containing images?
    6 projects | /r/neovim | 20 Jan 2022
    https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat does it. But I still prefer glow https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow due to general good looks.
  • TUI Markdown viewer?
    6 projects | /r/commandline | 29 Nov 2021
  • Command line utility to show md / regular txt files like man pages?
    6 projects | /r/commandline | 20 Oct 2021
    There other cli markdown viewers: * bat - my personal choice * mdcat - viewer in rust * mdless - was ok as far as I recall * glow - used to use it, did the job pretty well * terminal_markdown_viewer * mdo
  • I'm constantly typing 'ls -lah' and other commands...
    5 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 17 Sep 2021
    this can get pretty close to rendering markdown in terminal
  • MDcat ā€“ Simple Markdown to GitHub styled HTML converter
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2021
    Not to be confused with actual `cat for markdown` https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat
  • Awesome Rewrite It In Rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
    62 projects | /r/rust | 27 May 2021
    sad CLI search and replace | Space Age seD tcount Count your code by tokens, types of syntax tree nodes, and patterns in the syntax tree. A tokei/scc/cloc alternative. nushell A new type of shell fclones Efficient Duplicate File Finder hunter The fastest file manager in the galaxy! teip Select partial standard input and replace with the result of another command efficiently cb Command line interface to manage clipboard semiuniq A uniq-like tool for removing nearby repeated lines in a file" dua-cli View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast. htmlq Like jq, but for HTML. pipecolor A terminal filter to colorize output crowbook Converts books written in Markdown to HTML, LaTeX/PDF and EPUB delta A viewer for git and diff output mdcat cat for markdown pueue Manage your shell commands. gitui Blazing šŸ’„ fast terminal-ui for git written in rust šŸ¦€ pipr A tool to interactively write shell pipelines. rename Rename your files using your favorite text editor bropages Highly readable supplement to man pages from http://bropages.org. Shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting. html2md convert simple html documents into markdown bk Terminal Epub reader rs A safe Rust crate for working with the Wayland clipboard. viu Simple terminal image viewer written in Rust. alacritty A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. wezterm A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

What are some alternatives?

When comparing glow and mdcat you can also consider the following projects:

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

awesome-rewrite-it-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust]

pcstat - Page Cache stat: get page cache stats for files on Linux

fclones - Efficient Duplicate File Finder

mdless

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

mdcat - cat for markdown

terminal_markdown_viewer - Styled Terminal Markdown Viewer

glow.nvim - A markdown preview directly in your neovim.

starship - ā˜„šŸŒŒļø The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!