Summernote AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Text Editors

The best free Text Editor alternative to Summernote is TinyMCE, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Summernote and eight of them are free Text Editors so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Text Editor alternatives to Summernote are CKEditor, Tiptap, Quill and pell.

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

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Summernote alternatives page was last updated Mar 21, 2024
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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 Summernote.

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

    • TinyMCE is Freemium and Open SourceSummernote 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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    A lot of features. Best suitable for private use. Commercial use requires a paid license

    Positive comment •Jul 24, 2019
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    • CKEditor is Free Personal and Open SourceSummernote is Free and Open Source
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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
    Tiptap screenshot 1

    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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    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
    Quill screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript

    Quill Features

    1.  WYSIWYG Support
    2.  Rich Text Editor
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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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    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
    MediumEditor screenshot 1

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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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
    ORY Editor screenshot 1
    ORY Editor iconSummernote Icon

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  10. 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
    React Rich Text Editor iconSummernote Icon

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