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The best Text Editor alternative to openWYSIWYG is TinyMCE, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to openWYSIWYG and 12 are Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Text Editor alternatives to openWYSIWYG are CKEditor, Tiptap, Quill and Foopad.

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  1. TinyMCE icon
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    TinyMCE

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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.

    31 TinyMCE alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
    • Joomla

    Properties

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
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    • TinyMCE is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to openWYSIWYG.

    • TinyMCE is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to openWYSIWYG.

    • TinyMCE is Freemium and Open SourceopenWYSIWYG is Free and Open Source
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    CKEditor

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    CKEditor 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.

    37 CKEditor alternatives
    CKEditor 5 Classic build

    License model

    • Free Personal • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    CKEditor 5 Balloon Block build
    CKEditor 5 - Comments with real-time collaborative editing
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    CKEditor 5 - Track changes

    Properties

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
    2.  Real time collaboration
    3.  Rich Text Editor
    4.  Browser-based
    5.  Embeddable
    6.  Drag and Drop
    7.  Support for ReactJS
    8.  Colored Text
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  4. Tiptap icon
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    Tiptap

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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.

    30 Tiptap alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Block editor

    Properties

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
    2.  Embedded comments
    3.  Real time collaboration
    4.  WYSIWYG HTML Editor
    5.  React
    6.  Integrated Chat
    7.  Rich Text Editor
    8.  Headless
    9.  Real-time sync
    10.  AI-Powered
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  5. Quill icon
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    Quill

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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.

    31 Quill alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript

    Quill Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
    2.  Rich Text Editor
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  6. Foopad icon
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    Foopad

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    Foopad is nondestructive source code editor / integrated development environment made to make your dev life better. Foopad has some unique features and can be customized to be like simple notepad or full IDE.

    93 Foopad alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Fastmail Squire

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    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.

    20 Fastmail Squire alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Internet Explorer
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Chromium
    • Firefox

    Fastmail Squire Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
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  9. MarkMyWords icon
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    MarkMyWords

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    A minimal markdown editor in the eOS design.

    44 MarkMyWords alternatives
    Live preview split pane

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vala

    MarkMyWords Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
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    pell

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

    31 pell alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    pell Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
    2.  WYSIWYG HTML Editor
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  11. MediumEditor icon
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    MediumEditor

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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.

    30 MediumEditor alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  12. HotEditor icon
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    HotEditor

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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).

    24 HotEditor alternatives
    HotEditor screenshot 1

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online

    HotEditor Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
    2.  Browser-based
    3.  Embeddable
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  13. ORY Editor icon
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    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.

    31 ORY Editor alternatives
    ORY Editor screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    ORY Editor Features

    1.  WYSIWYG HTML Editor
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  14. React Rich Text Editor icon
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    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.

    30 React Rich Text Editor alternatives
    React Rich Text Editor screenshot 1

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • React
    • JavaScript

    React Rich Text Editor Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
    2.  WYSIWYG HTML Editor
    3.  Support for MarkDown
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