CKEditor Alternatives

CKEditor is described as '4 and CKEditor 5 are easy-to-implement open source JavaScript WYSIWYG rich text editors for any web browser. CKEditor Ecosystem has 2 very distinct rich text editors as well as image upload and collaboration solutions' and is a Text Editor in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to CKEditor for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Linux, Mac and Windows apps. The best CKEditor alternative is TinyMCE, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CKEditor are Tiptap, Quill, AlloyEditor and Froala Editor.

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  1. TinyMCE icon
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    TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances.

    32 TinyMCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
    • Joomla
     
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  2. Tiptap icon
     1 like

    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. Build products with real-time synchronization, amazing content experience, whiteboard collaboration, real-time editing, AI-powered content and version control efficiency.

    32 Tiptap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Quill icon
     3 likes

    Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. With its modular architecture and expressive API, it is completely customizable to fulfill any need.

    33 Quill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  4. AlloyEditor icon
     8 likes

    Alloy Editor is a modern WYSIWYG editor built on top of CKEditor, designed to create modern and gorgeous web content.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Trumbowyg icon
     17 likes

    Trumbowyg is a very small jQuery plugin (16 kB minified) for creating a powerful WYSIWYG editor. Features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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  6. Summernote icon
     7 likes

    WYSIWYG Editor built with jQuery, Bootstrap and Font-Awesome. MIT-licensed. 2500+ stars on GitHub.

    24 Summernote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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  7. ProseMirror tries to bridge the gap between editing explicit, unambiguous content like Markdown or XML, and classical WYSIWYG editors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
     
  8. N1ED icon
     4 likes

    N1ED is an add-on for CKEditor and TinyMCE that completely redefines your vision of WYSIWYG editors. Absolutely FREE. Auto update from CDN.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • CKEditor
    • TinyMCE
    • Drupal
    • Joomla
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • PrestaShop
    • Magento Community Edition
     
  9. Editor.js icon
     2 likes

    Editor.js is a block-styled editor for rich media stories. It outputs clean data in JSON instead of heavy HTML-markup. And more important thing is that Editor.js is designed to be API extendable and pluggable.

    32 Editor.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. WYSIWYG html editor.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Glee icon
     4 likes

    Glee publishes Markdown files into Ghost blog posts. With glee, you can create and update Ghost blogs. Since glee operates on plain markdown files, your blog posts are now git-friendly, allowing for easy collaboration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Ghost
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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