Open Source CKEditor Alternatives

The best open source alternative to CKEditor is Wordgard. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to CKEditor and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to CKEditor are TinyMCE, Tiptap, Quill and AlloyEditor.

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  1. Wordgard icon
     7 likes

    Open-source, schema-based JavaScript library enabling in-browser rich-text editing, modular extensions for custom elements, accessibility, collaborative real-time editing, UI internationalization, right-to-left writing, structured content, and functional programming style.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • npm
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  2. TinyMCE icon
     50 likes

    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.

    37 TinyMCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    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.

    35 Tiptap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
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  5. 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
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  6. Summernote icon
     7 likes

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

    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
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  8. 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.

    36 Editor.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  9. SCEditor icon
     8 likes

    A lightweight WYSIWYG BBCode & HTML editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. 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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  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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  12. Trix icon
     3 likes

    Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is a WYSIWYG editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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