mdcat VS glow

Compare mdcat vs glow and see what are their differences.

mdcat

cat for markdown (by swsnr)

glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! πŸ’…πŸ» (by charmbracelet)
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mdcat glow
2 60
2,022 14,776
- 3.0%
8.3 6.7
29 days ago 4 days ago
Rust Go
Mozilla Public License 2.0 MIT License
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

mdless

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

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

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

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

markdown-mode - Emacs Markdown Mode

terminal_markdown_viewer - Styled Terminal Markdown Viewer

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

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

bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework πŸ—