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24 alternatives to SunEditor

Pure javascript based WYSIWYG editor, with no dependencies

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SunEditor launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Editor.js▲723

   A block-styled editor with clean JSON output

   2019 · editorjs.io · 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 →

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   CKEditor 5▲74

   Real-time collaborative WYSIWYG rich text editor.

   2018 · ckeditor.com · its alternatives →

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   Flowbite WYSIWYG▲349

   Open-source text editor with Tailwind CSS

   2024 · flowbite.com · its alternatives →

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   AiEditor▲589

   An open source AI-powered rich text editor

   2024 · aieditor.dev · 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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   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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   OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea▲471

   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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   Medium Editor▲266

   The dead simple inline editor toolbar

   2016 · yabwe.github.io · its alternatives →

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    TinyMCE▲129

    Full featured web based JavaScript WYSIWYG HTML Editor

    2016 · tiny.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Neptune by Hashnode▲250

    Our Markdown-based WYSIWYG editor for composing blog posts

    2022 · hashnode.com · 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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    HTML Editor▲187

    Create HTML snippets with a simple WYSIWYG editor

    2017 · htmleditor.io · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Sunflower Editor – like adding console.log to every line of your code▲134

    2021 · editor.sunflower.industries · its alternatives →

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    tiiny web editor▲259

    The simplest web editor for any HTML template

    2023 · tiiny.host · its alternatives →

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    Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework▲295

    Save time with the online editor for Tailwind CSS that has a simple, intuitive drag & drop interface and 240+ ready-made UI components.

    2019 · tailwind.build · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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

    2018 · demo.hyperfiddle.net · its alternatives →

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    PseudoEditor▲75

    An editor & compiler that lets you code in plain English

    2023 · pseudoeditor.com · its alternatives →

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    TOAST UI Editor▲119

    Markdown WYSIWYG editor

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction▲243

    I'm working on a pure js webgl image editor with effects, filters, crop & perspective correction, etc. My goal is to give the community an opensource solution as unfortunately most comparable apps are closed sources. https://mini2-photo-editor.netlify.app to try it out (https://github.com/xdadda/mini-photo-editor)

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PhotoEditor SDK for Web▲19

    Fully customizable JavaScript photo editor for your product.

    2020 · img.ly · its alternatives →

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    Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code editor▲233

    Hi HN! I've been working on a code editor and I think that it's mature enough to catch some interest. It's using a custom GPU accelerated GUI written in C++. Currently implements some interesting features: LSP, terminal, auto-completion, linters, formatters, custom keybindings, plugins and more. It's a hobby project but still intends to be an alternative to other popular code editors like Sublime, Kate, Lapce, Lite XL (and takes inspiration from them). The project was born as a playground for the GUI I'm developing (eepp GUI) and is advanced enough to currently be my main code editor, but…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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