Private Markdown notebook with backlinks, offline sync, MCP access and WebDAV or S3 backups, running on Workers
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Self-hosted alternatives to StackEdit
StackEdit is an open-source in-browser Markdown editor with live preview and cloud storage sync. Two listed apps do its main job and run in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features StackEdit describes on its own site.
Markdown pastebin and multi-storage file manager on Cloudflare Workers, mountable as a WebDAV drive
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- Apache-2.0
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StackEdit features, app by app
| Feature | Inkstone | CloudPaste |
|---|---|---|
| In-browser Markdown editor with syntax highlighting | Yes | Yes |
| Live preview with scroll sync | Yes | Partly |
| Sync with Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub | Partly | Partly |
| Publishing to Blogger, WordPress and Zendesk | Partly | Partly |
| Shared collaborative workspaces with automatic merging of changes | No | No |
| Inline comments | No | No |
| Offline writing | Yes | Yes |
| GFM, LaTeX math and UML diagrams | Yes | Yes |
Private Markdown notebook with backlinks, offline sync, MCP access and WebDAV or S3 backups, running on Workers
- What a StackEdit user would miss
- It has no shared editing, no comments, no blog publishing and no cloud drive sync.
- What it adds
- Runs in your own Cloudflare account in any browser, with an OAuth MCP server and public note links.
- Yes In-browser Markdown editor with syntax highlighting. A CodeMirror 6 editor with Markdown syntax highlighting.
- Yes Live preview with scroll sync. Split view with synchronized scrolling.
- Partly Sync with Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub. Scheduled WebDAV and S3 backups; no Google Drive, Dropbox or GitHub sync.
- Partly Publishing to Blogger, WordPress and Zendesk. Public note links with optional passwords and expiry dates; no blog publishing.
- No Shared collaborative workspaces with automatic merging of changes. Several user accounts but no shared editing found.
- No Inline comments. No comments found.
- Yes Offline writing. Installable PWA with offline launch and an offline write queue.
- Yes GFM, LaTeX math and UML diagrams. GFM, KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams.
Markdown pastebin and multi-storage file manager on Cloudflare Workers, mountable as a WebDAV drive
- What a StackEdit user would miss
- It has no shared editing, no comments and no blog publishing.
- What it adds
- Pastes with password, expiry and view limit, raw links, and a file manager that mounts R2, S3 and WebDAV storage.
- Yes In-browser Markdown editor with syntax highlighting. A Vditor editor with Markdown highlighting and several edit modes.
- Partly Live preview with scroll sync. A split view with a live preview on desktop; synced scrolling not confirmed.
- Partly Sync with Google Drive, Dropbox and GitHub. Mounts Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV and S3 storage in a file manager; the editor saves pastes to the Worker's database.
- Partly Publishing to Blogger, WordPress and Zendesk. Shareable pastes with password, expiry and view limit, and raw links; no blog publishing.
- No Shared collaborative workspaces with automatic merging of changes. No shared editing found.
- No Inline comments. No comments found.
- Yes Offline writing. PWA install that works offline.
- Yes GFM, LaTeX math and UML diagrams. GFM, KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams and mind maps.
Sources:github.com/ling-drag0n/cloudpaste#readmestackedit.io/