 Link | Alloy Editor | CKEditor | ContentTools | Froala Editor | Redactor | Summernote | Textbox.io | TinyMCE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest version | 2.11.1 | 5.15 | 1.6.10 | 3.0.5 | 10.2.2 | 0.6.7 | 2.1 | 5.0.7 |
| Release date | Oct. 22nd 2019 | Oct. 23rd 2019 | Aug. 9th 2018 | Aug. 16th 2019 | Jul. 15th 2015 | May 17th 2015 | Nov. 21st 2016 | Jun. 5th 2019 |
| License | LGPL-3 | GPL 2+, Commercial | MIT | Commercial, Paid froala.com/... | Commercial | MIT | CC BY-NC-ND, Commercial | LGPL, Commercial |
| Dependencies | CKEditor's engine, uses React to draw the UI | independent | jQuery 1.9.1+ | jQuery, Bootstrap, Font-Awesome | Optional jQuery version | |||
| Features | ||||||||
| Integration mode | in-place | iframe | in-place | in-place and iframe | in-place | in-place | in-place and iframe | in-place and iframe |
| WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Output format | html bbcode | HTML5, Configurable | HTML | HTML5 | HTML | HTML5 | HTML5 | |
| Link insertion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Link Checking | Yes Yes. Premium solution, checks link validity in real time. | |||||||
| Image insertion | Yes Can paste images and take camera pictures | Yes Upload, paste from clipboard: http://ckeditor.com/tmp/4.5.0-beta/image-upload.html | Yes | Yes Yes. Paste from clipboard, drag&drop, get from URL, upload, choose from a list of images. | Yes | Yes Paste from clipboard | Yes Yes Automatic image uploads, drag & drop, copy paste images from desktop applications, copy-paste from clipboard multi-images and text from Microsoft Word. | Yes Yes. Drag & drop. In-editor image manipulation and editing. Premium Word, Excel, web copy/paste from clipboard with multi-images. Easy integration with Tiny Drive file uploader & media management. |
| Media Embed | Yes Yes. Embedding video from YouTube, Twitter posts and a lot of other reach media sources | Yes Yes. Premium solution, responsive, rich media embeds from 1,800 sources. Live previews inside editor. | ||||||
| Rich text paste | Yes Better thank CKEditor for the same test | Yes Powerful. Cleans up data to matches available editor features. Very configurable. | No Formatting is lost | Yes Can be enabled using the editor options. https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/docs/options#pasteDeniedAttrs | Yes | Yes Preserves formatting | Yes Yes Configurable. Enterprise can preserve or remove formatting. | Yes Yes configurable. Premium solution (PowerPaste) can preserve or remove formatting. |
| Table editing | Yes | Yes Editing features in context menu. | Yes | Yes v3 comes with one of the most advanced table editing tools. | - Can edit table content, but requires plugin to edit tables | Yes | Yes Yes Solid - http://textbox.io | Yes Yes, solid, stable tables. Popup table toolbar or context menu. |
| Spellchecker | Yes Uses the browser's built-in, can use CKEditor's spellcheck plugins | Yes WebSpellChecker.net | No Relies on browser spell checker support | Yes Browser default spellcheck | No Not baked in but most modern browsers spell-check | Yes Uses the browser's built-in | Yes Yes On premise spell checking service, cloud spell checker available. | Yes Yes, plugin with PHP backend. Premium option in cloud or on-prem with custom dictionaries, multiple languages. |
| Plugins | Yes Can use almost all of CKEditor's plugins, has a few own too (for example for auto-link insertion) | Yes Add-ons Repository | Yes https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/docs/plugins | Yes | Yes | Yes Yes. Always growing list of open source, premium and partner plugins to extend the editor. Includes track changes and comments. | ||
| Toggle to edit HTML | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Code Mirror integration for HTML highlighting | Yes | Yes Yep | Yes Automatic indentation & syntax highlighting. | Yes Yes. Open source HTML code view. Premium solution, IDE-like features inc code folding, syntax highlighting. |
| Other | ||||||||
| Website | alloyeditor.com | ckeditor.com | getcontenttools.com | froala.com/... | imperavi.com/... | github.com/... | textbox.io | tiny.cloud |
| Demo web link | alloyeditor.com | ckeditor.com | getcontenttools.com/... | froala.com/... | imperavi.com/... | summernote.org | textbox.io/... | tiny.cloud/... |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | |||||
| Last update | Nov. 14th 2019 9:46:38 PM | Nov. 14th 2019 9:47:32 PM | Nov. 14th 2019 9:48:57 PM | Sep. 25th 2019 4:26:32 PM | Jul. 30th 2015 8:40:33 PM | Nov. 24th 2020 4:54:11 PM | Dec. 12th 2016 11:32:11 PM | Jun. 12th 2019 9:39:27 PM |
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| Mobile Ready | No No - https://github.com/liferay/alloy-editor/issues/226 | Yes iOS 6+, Chrome for Android | No Editor is currently aimed at desktop devices. | Yes iOS, Android | Yes Yes, with a minor problem in the demo - https://github.com/summernote/summernote/issues/1104 | Yes Yes iOS, Android | Yes Yes. iOS. Android. | |
| Minified size | 598 Kb, 167Kb gzipped | 241 kb / 49kb gzipped (figures include JS, CSS, images and fonts). | 140 Kb, 38Kb gzipped | 948 kb, 284kb gzipped | 383 kb, 129kb gzipped | |||
| Floating toolbar | Yes Yes - see demo | Yes Yes: http://ckeditor.com/demo#inline | Yes | Yes Yes. | Yes Yes, see the "Air mode" | Yes Yes when using inline (in-place) mode. | Yes Yes. Floating and Sliding modes. https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/configure/editor-appearance/#floating | |
| Initialization time | 30 ms |