glow VS mdcat

Compare glow vs mdcat and see what are their differences.

glow

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

mdcat

cat for markdown (by swsnr)
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glow mdcat
60 2
14,776 2,022
2.6% -
6.7 8.3
3 days ago 27 days 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 2023-01-03.

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

mdless

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

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

termimad - A library to display rich (Markdown) snippets and texts in a rust terminal application

markdown-mode - Emacs Markdown Mode

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

terminal_markdown_viewer - Styled Terminal Markdown Viewer

bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework πŸ—

MDcat - A super simple script which uses the GitHub API to convert your markdown files to GitHub styled HTML site.