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24 alternatives to Quill

An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Quill launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Quill 1.0▲154
An API driven rich text editor
2016 · quilljs.com · its alternatives →
2
AiEditor▲589
An open source AI-powered rich text editor
2024 · aieditor.dev · its alternatives →
3
Quill▲129
Persistent clipboard for your Workflows
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
4QO
QuillJS + OT for collaborative rich text editing▲17
2014 · developers.goinstant.com · its alternatives →
5
Atom▲145
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →
6
Quill▲414
Messaging to make your team better
2021 · its alternatives →
7
Comet▲92
openAPI editor for nerds
2021 · its alternatives →
8
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 →
9QM
Quill – Messaging for teams that focus▲187
2020 · quill.chat · its alternatives →
10
Quill - Interactive Writing Activities▲37
Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for middle and high school students.
2014 · quill.org · its alternatives →
11
Brackets 1.0▲190
An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Pell▲105
Simplest & smallest WYSIWYG text editor, w/ no dependencies
2017 · jaredreich.com · its alternatives →
13
Quill▲96
Collaborative drawing and wireframing app for iPad
2015 · getquill.com · its alternatives →
14
Yoopta-Editor▲334
Open-source text-editor
2024 · yoopta.dev · its alternatives →
15
Medium Editor▲266
The dead simple inline editor toolbar
2016 · yabwe.github.io · its alternatives →
16
Trix▲184
A rich text editor for everyday writing
2015 · trix-editor.org · its alternatives →
17PR
Please review my MVP: Quill.org (Interactive Grammar Web App)▲8
http://www.quill.org We are a nonprofit organization, and Quill is a free, open source tool. We are looking for feedback on our user experience and our code optimization. Critical feedback is appreciated. If you'd like to check out the code: https://github.com/empirical-org/quill
2013 · its alternatives →
18CE
Collaborative editing with Quill▲5
2018 · codepen.io · its alternatives →
19
An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor▲460
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 →
20
Quills.ai▲61
Personal AI chat assistant for quick data insights.
2023 · quills.ai · its alternatives →
21
TextMate 2.0▲155
Powerful and customizable text editor for Mac
2019 · macromates.com · its alternatives →
22
Macaw▲90
A simple code editor for Swift
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
23
QuillBot▲78
Make writing painless by using AI paraphrasing technology
2021 · quillbot.com · its alternatives →
24
CotEditor▲102
The free plain-text editor for OS X
2014 · coteditor.com · its alternatives →

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