Open Source TinyMCE Alternatives

The best open source alternative to TinyMCE is CKEditor. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CKEditor or Trumbowyg. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to TinyMCE and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to TinyMCE are Tiptap, ProseMirror, ContentTools Editor and Summernote.

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  1. 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.

    40 CKEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    CKEditor vs TinyMCE Comments
    Dave Land
    Positive
    -2

    They're both top-of-the-line open source WYSIWYG HTML editors.

    • CKEditor is Free Personal and Open SourceTinyMCE is Freemium and Open Source
    • CKEditor is CustomizableTinyMCE is not according to our users
  2. Trumbowyg icon
     17 likes

    Trumbowyg is a very small jQuery plugin (16 kB minified) for creating a powerful WYSIWYG editor. Features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Quill icon
     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  4. 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
     
  5. ProseMirror tries to bridge the gap between editing explicit, unambiguous content like Markdown or XML, and classical WYSIWYG editors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    ContentTools Editor vs TinyMCE Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Integrated toolbar (includes color picking) in a textarea or div.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • ContentTools Editor is Free and Open SourceTinyMCE is Freemium and Open Source
    • ContentTools Editor is CustomizableTinyMCE is not according to our users
  7. Summernote icon
     7 likes

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

    25 Summernote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Editor.js icon
     2 likes

    Editor.js is a block-styled editor for rich media stories. It outputs clean data in JSON instead of heavy HTML-markup. And more important thing is that Editor.js is designed to be API extendable and pluggable.

    33 Editor.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. AlloyEditor icon
     8 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. 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)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. The Suneditor is a lightweight, flexible, customizable WYSIWYG text editor for your web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. 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
     
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