Web-based openWYSIWYG Alternatives

There are many alternatives to openWYSIWYG as a web app if you are looking for a replacement. The best Online alternative 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 18 are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to openWYSIWYG are CKEditor, Tiptap, PHP Markdown and ContentTools 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. CKEditor icon
     40 likes

    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.

    41 CKEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. 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.

    33 Tiptap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. PHP Markdown icon
     4 likes

    PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 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
     
  6. WYMeditor icon
     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
     
  7. Aloha Editor icon
     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
     
  8. SCEditor icon
     8 likes

    A lightweight WYSIWYG BBCode & HTML editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. CLEditor icon
     7 likes

    CLEditor is an open source jQuery plugin which provides a lightweight, full featured, cross browser, extensible, WYSIWYG HTML editor that can be easily added into any web site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    CLEditor vs openWYSIWYG Comments
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    It is simple, editable and well documented and very close to the openWYSIWYG set-up. Unfortunately, openWYSIWYG has some hate against some browsers and it is very difficult to make it work properly with anything else than firefox. CLEditor on the other hand works in any browser I tried - about 6 or 7.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • CLEditor is Free and Open SourceopenWYSIWYG is also Free and Open Source
    • CLEditor is LightweightopenWYSIWYG is not according to our users
  10. WebsiteBaker icon
     6 likes

    WebsiteBaker helps you to create the website you want: A free, easy, secure, flexible and extensible Open Source Content Management System.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Texy! icon
     4 likes

    Texy! is a lightweight markup language as well as converter of this format to XHTML, in a form of a library written in the PHP scripting language. It allows the user to write structured documents without knowledge or using of HTML language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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