In the world of Atlassian Marketplace apps, the right tool can make all the difference in optimizing your team's workflow.

Capable for Confluence offers a range of features that elevate collaboration and productivity within Confluence, while Modus Create's "Diagram Git Markdown HTML PlantUML Mermaid LaTeX Swagger UML" is also a contender for teams seeking markdown and diagram support.

In this post, we compare the two solutions, feature by feature, highlighting why Capable for Confluence stands out as the superior choice.

Overview: What Each Tool Offers

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Provides basic markdown editing and diagram support for users seeking minimal functionality. While it delivers core markdown and diagram capabilities, it lacks advanced features such as live previews, templates, and robust search options, which can limit its overall utility.

The tool’s interface is less intuitive, with a manual workflow that interrupts efficiency. Built on the older 🕸️ Atlassian Connect framework, it may not meet the latest standards for security and performance, leaving teams with a less optimized experience.

While Modus Create Markdown for Confluence may suit users with very specific, lightweight markdown needs, it falls short of delivering the comprehensive functionality and polished design offered by Capable for Confluence.

Capable for Confluence

Capable for Confluence revolutionizes markdown workflows within Confluence by offering a feature-rich experience tailored to enhance productivity. Its standout features include a real-time rich editor, a visual diagram editor, AI-powered tools, and advanced markdown search capabilities, making it the ideal choice for teams of all sizes.

Thoughtfully designed with a polished, user-friendly interface, Capable for Confluence ensures seamless interaction for users, from content creation to diagram generation, all while integrating smoothly with other Confluence functionalities.

Built on the modern ⭐ Atlassian Forge framework, Capable for Confluence offers superior security, scalability, and reliability, ensuring teams can focus on what matters—collaboration and content creation.

Feature Comparison: Capable vs. Modus Create

The following section offers a side-by-side comparison of Capable for Confluence and Modus Create's tool, highlighting their features and determining which app delivers the best experience for users.

1. Rich Markdown Editor with Live Preview

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Requires manual refreshing of the preview, which is located below the editing section.

This cumbersome workflow breaks the user's flow, making editing and previewing markdown a frustrating experience.

Capable for Confluence

Features a rich editor with a live preview panel that follows your edits in real-time.

You can easily insert diagrams, images, and tables via an intuitive toolbar, making the process smooth and user-friendly.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

Real-time editing and live previews make for a vastly superior editing experience.

2. Visual Diagram Editing

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Does not provide a visual diagram editor, which poses a notable limitation for users who prefer an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface for creating diagrams.

Without this functionality, diagram creation becomes less flexible and more time-consuming.

Capable for Confluence

Integrates a visual diagram editor, which includes drag-and-drop functionality, icon libraries, and support for modifying styles directly from the editor.

This allows users to create beautiful and complex diagrams without leaving the markdown editor.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

The visual diagram editor integration elevates diagram editing to a new level of ease and flexibility.

3. Markdown Embedding via URL

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Provides similar URL embedding functionality.

Capable for Confluence

Allows users to embed markdown from a URL.

🏆 Winner: Tie

Both apps support markdown embedding from URLs effectively.

4. Markdown Templates

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Does not offer similar templating options, limiting users' ability to quickly create markdown documents with predefined structures.

Capable for Confluence

Comes with over 20 predefined templates out of the box, showcasing the app's diverse features.

Users can create documents from these templates and share them within Confluence spaces for consistent formatting.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

The extensive library of templates greatly enhances user productivity and consistency.

5. Markdown and Diagram Browsing

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Lacks markdown indexing features, which makes it challenging for users to get a clear and comprehensive overview of markdown content spread across their Confluence instance.

Without this capability, users may struggle to locate and organize markdown files effectively

Capable for Confluence

Indexes markdown content across Confluence pages, allowing users to browse markdown pages from a central place with metadata on page authorship, modification dates, and more.

Users can also easily navigate to the containing page and copy the markdown source.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

Indexing and browsing capabilities help users keep track of markdown content effortlessly.

6. Text Diagram Editor with AI Support

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Provides a manual diagram editor that requires users to refresh changes manually, disrupting the workflow and adding unnecessary steps to the process.

It lacks AI-powered features, offering no assistance in generating or refining diagrams.

Capable for Confluence

Provides a text diagram editor equipped with AI-based autocompletion, automatic naming of diagrams, and generation of new diagrams.

The diagrams have a live preview that updates in real-time, making creation both easy and efficient for you and your team.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

The AI-driven autocompletion and live preview significantly enhance efficiency.

7. Markdown Search Features

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Lacks a dedicated search feature for markdown content, making content retrieval more cumbersome.

Capable for Confluence

Comes with a powerful search feature that allows users to search through pages and view any diagrams or markdown within those pages.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

The ability to search markdown and diagrams makes content management much simpler.

8. HTML Macro

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Lacks a live editor and template features, which significantly restricts customization options for creating and managing HTML content.

Without these capabilities, users are unable to preview changes in real-time or insert from a library of components.

Capable for Confluence

Includes an HTML macro with a live editor and templates for creating and customizing HTML elements within Confluence.

It also supports Tailwind CSS classes, making it easy to create visually appealing and responsive content.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

The HTML macro with live editing and templates provides much more flexibility.

9. LaTeX and Swagger Integration

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Offers LaTeX and Swagger but lacks the user-friendly quick add feature for Swagger.

Lacks live preview functionality.

Capable for Confluence

Supports LaTeX for mathematical expressions and Swagger for API documentation.

The Swagger integration includes a quick add list that makes selecting common API docs simple.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

The quick add list for Swagger integration makes managing API documentation more convenient.

Additional Features

Modus Create Markdown for Confluence

Focuses primarily on markdown and related solution support, offering a limited feature set beyond these core functionalities.

Updates and new features are infrequent, leaving users without consistent enhancements to improve their experience or expand capabilities.

Capable for Confluence

Goes beyond just Markdown or Diagram capabilities.

It also includes features like approval, calendar, formatting macros, content management and search features and more — all integrated within Confluence for an all-in-one productivity solution.

🏆 Winner: Capable for Confluence

The inclusion of approval, calendar, and other features makes Capable for Confluence a comprehensive tool for team productivity.

Comparison Summary

Here’s a quick look at how the two products stack up, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses to help you choose the right solution for your needs.

🏆 Overall Winner: Capable for Confluence

Conclusion

Capable for Confluence clearly outshines Modus Create's "Diagram Git Markdown HTML PlantUML Mermaid LaTeX Swagger UML" in terms of features, usability, and overall user experience. With real-time previews, AI-powered features, an extensive template library, advanced interaction options, and additional integrated capabilities like approvals and calendar management, Capable for Confluence ensures a seamless, efficient, and enjoyable workflow for all Confluence users.

If you're looking for a markdown tool that makes content creation easy, supports a wide variety of use cases, and comes with a name you can remember, Capable for Confluence is the winner by a wide margin.

Try Capable for Confluence today and experience the difference for yourself.