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ReText

Simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

ReText is a text editor, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: Markdown support and syntax highlighting.

File formats mentioned: PDF, ODT and HTML.

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
  • “Simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “It supports tabs, live text preview, synchronized scrolling and syntax highlighting.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) 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
  • Commercial use allowed

About

ReText is a text editor for plain text markup languages, such as Markdown and reStructuredText. It supports tabs, live text preview, synchronized scrolling and syntax highlighting. ReText can export to HTML, ODT and PDF formats. It is also possible to write custom export extensions.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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