CKEditor AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Text Editors

The best Text Editor alternative to CKEditor is TinyMCE, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to CKEditor and 13 are Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text Editor alternatives to CKEditor are Tiptap, Quill, ProseMirror and ORY 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.

    35 TinyMCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    33 Tiptap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Quill icon
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    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.

    34 Quill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  4. ProseMirror tries to bridge the gap between editing explicit, unambiguous content like Markdown or XML, and classical WYSIWYG editors.

    10 ProseMirror alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
     
  5. ORY Editor is a React based editor for the web built that follows some important principles in modern web development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Eddyter  icon
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    AI-powered WYSIWYG rich text editor SDK for developers. Plug-and-play setup in ~10 minutes, fully managed AI, storage, and infrastructure, and ~3x cheaper than TinyMCE, CKEditor, and Quill.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. MediumEditor icon
     2 likes

    MediumEditor is a Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone, a dead simple inline editor toolbar. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Squire is an HTML5 rich text editor, which provides powerful cross-browser normalisation, whilst being supremely lightweight and flexible. It is built for the present and the future, and as such does not support truly ancient browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Internet Explorer
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
     
  9. React Rich Text Editor is a UI component built completely in React that is meant to be a full-featured textarea replacement. It's based on the excellent, open source Draft.js from Facebook which is performant and production-tested.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • React
    • JavaScript
     
  10. markItUp! icon
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    markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. MarkMyWords icon
     4 likes

    A minimal markdown editor in the eOS design.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vala
     
  12. HotEditor icon
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    HotEditor is a browser-based rich text editor that provides an advantage in simplifying the workload and providing more options. HotEditor can convert HTML to BBCode and BBCode to HTML (great idea for integrating Hoteditor to forum software).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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