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24 alternatives to CKEditor 5

Real-time collaborative WYSIWYG rich text editor.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CKEditor 5 launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   AiEditor▲589

   An open source AI-powered rich text editor

   2024 · aieditor.dev · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Medium Editor▲266

   The dead simple inline editor toolbar

   2016 · yabwe.github.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js▲278

   The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. - ueberdosis/tiptap

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Editor.js▲723

   A block-styled editor with clean JSON output

   2019 · editorjs.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux▲369

   Next-gen, highly customizable content editor for the browser - based on React and written in TypeScript. WYSIWYG on steroids. - react-page/react-page

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Squire▲123

   The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.

   2014 · neilj.github.io · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps▲215

   Open source rich text editor for the modern web. Contribute to Voog/wysihtml development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor▲460

   Inspired by the design and UI&#x2F;UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"&#x2F;generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…

   2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Smart Text Editor▲94

   The text editor that requires only a browser and a keyboard

   2021 · stedit.app · its alternatives →

10. 10VO
    Vim online editor using WebAssembly, storing files using IndexedDB▲316

    2023 · vimonlineeditor.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Markdown Editor▲126

    Clean, modern & open-source WYSIWYG markdown editor

    2019 · mdown.vercel.app · its alternatives →

12. 12
    HTML Editor▲187

    Create HTML snippets with a simple WYSIWYG editor

    2017 · htmleditor.io · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Tweetable Rich Text▲96

    Rich text editor for a͟n͟y text box, works on 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿

    2021 · tweetable-rich-text.agiliq.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    PseudoEditor▲75

    An editor & compiler that lets you code in plain English

    2023 · pseudoeditor.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Xeditor▲7

    A real-time collaborative code editor.

    2025 · xeditor.dev · its alternatives →

16. 16
    An in-browser text editor to easily create static HTML▲140

    Text editor that generates static HTML files with many ready-to-add components.

    2022 · triplelog.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Froala Editor V2▲94

    A beautiful modern WYSIWYG HTML text editor

    2016 · froala.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor▲130

    We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned. As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a concrete editor architecture, and a Playwright-based test suite. The agent iterated in a (Ralph) loop over a few nights and produced a working editor from scratch. Core text editing works today. Tables and images are functional but still incomplete. MIT licensed.

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    OurJSEditor▲56

    A community for sharing frontend code

    2021 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    N1ED – new generation WYSIWYG HTML editor for a modern web apps▲7

    Upgrade TinyMCE and CKEditor with structured editing, file management, image editing, and AI-powered writing. One plugin, complete toolkit.

    2019 · n1ed.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    medium-draft▲98

    A medium like rich text editor built upon draft-js

    2016 · bitwiser.in · its alternatives →

22. 22
    TinyMCE▲129

    Full featured web based JavaScript WYSIWYG HTML Editor

    2016 · tiny.cloud · its alternatives →

23. 23
    SunEditor▲7

    Pure javascript based WYSIWYG editor, with no dependencies

    2019 · suneditor.com · its alternatives →

24. 24WM
    We made a real-time editor for web database apps▲121

    2018 · demo.hyperfiddle.net · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →