CKEditor AlternativesOnly Open Source apps categorised as Text Editors

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

    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.

    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. MediumEditor icon
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    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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. MarkMyWords icon
     4 likes

    A minimal markdown editor in the eOS design.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vala
     
  9. pell icon
     1 like

    The simplest and smallest (~1kB) WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies 📝

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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