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, JavaScript, Linux and Mac apps. The best CKEditor alternative is TinyMCE, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CKEditor are Wordgard, Tiptap, Quill and AlloyEditor.

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  1. Glee icon

    Glee

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    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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  2. ContentTools Editor icon

    ContentTools Editor

     27 likes

    A small & beautiful WYSIWYG editor for HTML content. ContentTools is a collection of small, flexible, extensible and framework agnostic JavaScript libraries for creating beautiful WYSIWYG editors for HTML content.

    36 ContentTools Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. SCEditor icon

    SCEditor

     8 likes

    A lightweight WYSIWYG BBCode & HTML editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Trix icon

    Trix

     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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  6. ORY Editor icon

    ORY Editor

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    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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    ORY Editor screenshot 1
     
  7. Eddyter icon

    Eddyter

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Aloha Editor icon

    Aloha Editor

     11 likes

    Aloha Editor is an HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor that gives you a total new experience when editing. It's faster than existing WYSIWYG technologies and offers unprecedented WYSIWYG functionalities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    Aloha Editor screenshot 1
     
  10. MediumEditor icon

    MediumEditor

     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.

    32 MediumEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. F

    Fastmail Squire

     5 likes

    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
     
  12. Sun Editor icon

    Sun Editor

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    The Suneditor is a lightweight, flexible, customizable WYSIWYG text editor for your web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Sun Editor screenshot 1
     
  13. React Rich Text Editor icon

    React Rich Text Editor

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    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
    React Rich Text Editor screenshot 1
     
  14. WYMeditor icon

    WYMeditor

     11 likes

    WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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