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accent

An opinionated text + pdf editor with some neat features and a minimal design.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

accent is a PDF editor, available on Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository: Markdown support, built-in terminal, annotation and highlighting, syntax highlighting, split view.

Services and protocols mentioned: SSH.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “An opinionated text + pdf editor with some neat features and a minimal design.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Accent is an opinionated editor for code, markdown/org notes, and PDFs.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “It features an integrated terminal (emulator) and is AI ready without being bloated.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “I use it as my daily driver to replace VSCode, Obsidian, Xournal++, draw.io, a PDF reader and terminal emulators.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Enjoy... • working in vaults (workspaces) which can be any combinations of folders, files, terminals etc.. • editing code with multi-line carets, inline suggestions and syntax highlighting. • writing notes, use…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Enjoy... • working in vaults (workspaces) which can be any combinations of folders, files, terminals etc.. • editing code with multi-line carets, inline suggestions and syntax highlighting. • writing notes, use…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Enjoy... • working in vaults (workspaces) which can be any combinations of folders, files, terminals etc.. • editing code with multi-line carets, inline suggestions and syntax highlighting. • writing notes, use…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of accent is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub stroblme/accent (GPL-3.0-only)

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