Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online


pell is described as 'The simplest and smallest (~1kB) WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies 📝' and is a Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to pell for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Internet Explorer, Mac and Safari apps. The best pell alternative is TinyMCE, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like pell are CKEditor, Glee, Tiptap and Quill.


WYSIWYG Editor built with jQuery, Bootstrap and Font-Awesome. MIT-licensed. 2500+ stars on GitHub.

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Alloy Editor is a modern WYSIWYG editor built on top of CKEditor, designed to create modern and gorgeous web content.

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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.
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N1ED is the most popular SaaS alternative to pell.
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