Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

QuillJS + OT is a collaborative rich text editor built on the QuillJS framework with operational transformation technology. It allows multiple users to edit formatted documents simultaneously, with changes syncing in… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. QuillJS + OT for collaborative rich text editing launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Quill 1.0▲154

   An API driven rich text editor

   2016 · quilljs.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Quill▲83

   An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API.

   2014 · quilljs.com · its alternatives →

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   Editor.js▲723

   A block-styled editor with clean JSON output

   2019 · editorjs.io · its alternatives →

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   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 →

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   Tiptap Editor 3.0 Beta▲446

   Show HN: Tiptap Editor 3.0 Beta is out. Hi HN! Philip here from Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/). We're excited to announce Tiptap 3.0 Beta, a major upgrade built with and for the open source community. It's still extension-based, still unopinionated, but we've tackled some of the biggest developer headaches: Enhanced TypeScript support: Strong typing for extension storage and config options. Server-side compatibility: Manipulate editor content on the server, no DOM required. JSX support: Leverage a modern, React/Vue-like approach to describing your node output. Expanded…

   2025 · tiptap.dev · its alternatives →

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   Operational transform for realtime collaborative editing in JS/Flow▲56

   2016 · cricklet.github.io · its alternatives →

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   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 →

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   Quill▲414

   Messaging to make your team better

   2021 · its alternatives →

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   Tiptap▲591

   Developer toolkit for building collaborative apps

   2023 · tiptap.dev · its alternatives →

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    Typed▲526

    Next-generation document editor and collaboration tool

    2022 · typed.do · its alternatives →

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    SlateJS(rich text editor) Svelte view layer▲39

    2022 · nathanfaucett.github.io · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Real-time collaborative editing plugin for IntelliJ▲65

    Real-time collaborative editing plugin for IntelliJ - Floobits/floobits-intellij

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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 →

15. 15QM
    Quill – Messaging for teams that focus▲187

    2020 · quill.chat · its alternatives →

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    Smart Text Editor▲94

    The text editor that requires only a browser and a keyboard

    2021 · stedit.app · its alternatives →

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    Tome, aka Tom's Editor – a new command-line text editor▲131

    A command line text editor written in Node.js, focused on JavaScript. - tome/README.md at main · boutell/tome

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

18. 18TA
    Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js▲342

    2015 · tonicdev.com · its alternatives →

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    CKEditor 5▲74

    Real-time collaborative WYSIWYG rich text editor.

    2018 · ckeditor.com · its alternatives →

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    ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D▲257

    2020 · bennettfeely.com · its alternatives →

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    Draft.js▲166

    A framework for building rich text editors in React

    2016 · facebook.github.io · its alternatives →

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    MarkTwo▲71

    A seamless, speedy, syncing markdown editor

    2020 · marktwo.app · its alternatives →

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    DraftJS Plugins 2.0▲247

    Now with rich text editing toolbars & drag’n’drop for images

    2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend▲38

    Hi HN! I'm Philip, one of the founders of Tiptap. Next to our open-source rich text editor framework, we started developing Hocuspocus about five years ago and open-sourced it too, to solve one of our biggest challenges back then: real-time collaboration in web editors. We found Yjs by Kevin Jahns, a CRDT library that handles concurrent edits without conflicts. Basically, Yjs merges changes from users without conflicts and in real-time. Hocuspocus is the WebSocket server built on top of Yjs. It handles real-time sync, presence/awareness, persistence, and Redis-based scaling. While we…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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