Open Source Self-Hosted CKEditor Alternatives

There are many alternatives to CKEditor as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Self-Hosted alternative is TinyMCE. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to CKEditor and 17 are open source and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Self-Hosted alternatives to CKEditor are Quill, Trumbowyg, Editor.js and Glee.

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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. 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.

    34 Quill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  3. Trumbowyg icon
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    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
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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...

    33 Trix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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
     
  10. The Suneditor is a lightweight, flexible, customizable WYSIWYG text editor for your web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Marksmith icon
     1 like

    GitHub-style markdown editor for Ruby and Rails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  12.  Like

    The inofficial MIT-licensed fork of the world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing whose latest version is GPL-or-pay now.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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