Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Impressi | a WYSIWYG editor for impress.js
Impressi is a visual editor for creating presentations with impress.js, an open-source presentation framework. It allows users to build slideshows without writing code by providing a what-you-see-is-what-you-get… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Impressi | a WYSIWYG editor for impress.js launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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impress.js▲108Presentation tool based on the power of CSS3
2014 · bartaz.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I was super frustrated at apps like tiktok and wechat preventing me from saving or downloading the animated gifs, so I made a little tool to turn a screen recording into a slack-sized emoji. Hope you get some value from this!
Jun 2026 · vorpus.github.io · its alternatives →
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Promote!▲258Beautiful animated display graphics in an instant
2017 · promotegraphics.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can't. I went down the ContentEditable rabbit hole for a few years, but always came to realize others had solved it…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Inspired by the design and UI/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"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…
2023 · editor.vrite.io · its alternatives →
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A small JavaScript library to create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page
2020 · roughnotation.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · usablica.github.com · its alternatives →
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I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!
2022 · dev.aspect.app · its alternatives →
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Alai▲436AI design partner for presentations, social posts, and more
Oct 2025 · getalai.com · its alternatives →
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Solis▲348A live design output that integrates with code editor
2018 · solisapp.com · its alternatives →
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Create app promo videos in the browser
2021 · previewed.app · its alternatives →
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2013 · jakiestfu.github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · play.presenta.cc · its alternatives →
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2014 · phantomjs-pad.ozaur.com · its alternatives →
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Templated▲306Hey HN! While building our own SaaS we kept running into the same problem: customers wanted a real design editor (think Canva/Figma-lite) *inside* their product, but rebuilding all that UI from scratch is a quarter-million-dollar distraction. So we turned our internal tool into *Templated Embed* — a drop-in image & PDF template editor you can add to any web app with an tag. - What it does? • Full WYSIWYG editor for text, images, SVGs, brand colours, Google Fonts • Outputs static images (PNG/JPG), layered PDFs, or keeps the design JSON so you can re-render via API • Multi-page +…
2024 · templated.io · its alternatives →
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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 →
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