Rich text / HTML editors and frameworks

list.md

• Trix - https://github.com/basecamp/trix - by basecamp and used in v3, handles files/images well
• Squire - https://github.com/neilj/Squire - used in FastMail webmail, better for text than images
• ProseMirror - http://prosemirror.net/ - not great with images
• Scribe - https://github.com/guardian/scribe - by the Guardian team
• CKEditor - http://ckeditor.com/ - solid and very customizable, lots of plugins, a little dated in look/feel
• Quill - http://quilljs.com/
• Summernote - http://summernote.org/
• wysihtml - http://wysihtml.com/
• Etherpad - http://etherpad.org/ - collaborative realtime editing
• TinyMCE - http://www.tinymce.com/ - older editor but still good
• Textbox.IO - https://textbox.io/ - new from the owners of tinymce project
• Froala - https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor - solid editor, newer features like drag/drop images, v2 RC3 just released
• Redactor - http://imperavi.com/redactor/ - we used this in production but quality has gone down, v2 is half the functionality at 3x the price, not recommended anymore
• ZenPen - http://www.zenpen.io/ - very minimalist, best for text

• substance -http://substance.io - A JavaScript library for web-based content editing.

jodit https://xdsoft.net/jodit/

Hi! Thanks for including CKEditor 5, but there's actually a mistake regarding its architecture.

CKEditor 5 (http://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5):

• Has a custom data model (it's not a DOM-based editor). You can read about its architecture.
• It is a modular framework as well as a set of ready-to-use editor builds.
• It is a complete rewrite of CKEditor 4 (http://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-4) – those are completely separate projects so it'd make sense to list one in the "Abstracted editors" and one in the "DOM-based editors" sections.
• It supports real-time collaborative editing.

https://github.com/madebymany/sir-trevor-js

https://github.com/vigetlabs/colonel-kurtz

Thanks for including TinyMCE! V5 is out now and has a completely rewritten UI using the best parts of Textbox.io. You can probably merge these two entries now :)

Thanks for doing this list! It is great. It would be great to add a column saying whether they are open-source (MIT / BSD) etc because we've realised to use so of these editors in our commercial SaaS application, we would need to buy a licence - and some of those are quite pricey!

Tiptap moved to https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap ✌️