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title: 📄 HackMD alternatives
tags: hackmd
description: Alternatives to HackMD
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Alternatives
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## HackMD vs Skiff

- Both use Markdown which have [more functionality](#bookmark=id.oipun3hr17q) than doc based files.
- Skiff has better security
- Multi-factor authentication
- End-to-end encryption
- Skiff can import multiple files from the local computer.
- Skiff has a better UX
- Skiff has a GUI to handle Markdown.
- Auto-light/dark modes based on settings.
- Skiff has more investment and resources to build from $14.2mm of fundraising.
- HackMD has better publishing tools.
- Custom urls
- Upload to Arweave
- HackMD has better version control with GitHub.
- HackMD has better export all files feature.

## HackMD vs Google Docs

- HackMD is more decentralized
- HackMD allows for an easy download of all notes in .md file format.
- The .md file format is preserved when downloaded and can be hosted publicly easier than Google's downloaded universal .docx files.
- HackMD .md files have more native functionality
- Code blocks
- Embed
- GitHub Gists
- Figmas
- PDFs
- Mathematical equations
- Quoted text sections
- Set browser behavior: [Supported YAML metadata](https://hackmd.io/yaml-metadata)
- HackMD has better version control with GitHub integrations

## HedgeDoc

#### About
- Site: [hedgedoc.org](https://hedgedoc.org/)
- Fork of HackMD and CodiMD

#### Community and support
- Twitter: [@HedgeDocOrg](https://twitter.com/HedgeDocOrg)
- Chat: [chat.hedgedoc.org](https://chat.hedgedoc.org/)
- GitHub: [github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc](https://github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc#getting-started)

## Other

- [GitBook](https://open-guides.gitbook.io/gitbook/)
- [HackMD versus Notion](https://blog.hackmd.io/blog/2021/12/28/hackmd-vs-notion)
- [HackMD versus Confluence](https://blog.hackmd.io/blog/2022/02/07/hackmd-versus-confluence)

<p style="text-align: center; font-style: italic">This is not technical advice. Always read the official documentation and do your own research.</p>