Link | Alloy Editor | Aloha Editor | CKEditor | ContentTools | Froala Editor | jWYSIWYG | MarkitUp | Medium editor | NicEdit | Quill | Raptor Editor | Redactor | Summernote | Textbox.io | TinyMCE | Trumbowyg | WYSIHTML5 | Xinha | YUI Rich Text Editor |
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Latest version | 2.11.1 | 1.4.58 | 5.15 | 1.6.10 | 3.0.5 | 0.97.2 | 1.1.15 | 0.9 r24 - abandoned since 2012. | 1.3.6 | 10.2.2 | 0.6.7 | 2.1 | 5.0.7 | 2.20 | 0.5.0-beta8 | 0.96.1 - no longer maintained | 2.9.0 - no longer maintained | ||
Release date | Oct. 22nd 2019 | Nov. 12th 2019 | Oct. 23rd 2019 | Aug. 9th 2018 | Aug. 16th 2019 | May 7th 2011 | Aug. 16th 2018 | Jun. 7th 2012 | Mar. 12th 2018 | Jul. 15th 2015 | May 17th 2015 | Nov. 21st 2016 | Jun. 5th 2019 | Nov. 4th 2019 | Mar. 16th 2015 | May 12th 2010 | Apr. 13th 2011 | ||
License | LGPL-3 | GPLv2 / Commercial starting at 200 EUR | GPL 2+, Commercial | MIT | Commercial, Paid froala.com/... | MIT / GPL | MIT / GPL | MIT | MIT | BSD 3-Clause | GPLv3 and Commercial | Commercial | MIT | CC BY-NC-ND, Commercial | LGPL, Commercial | MIT | BSD | BSD | |
Dependencies | CKEditor's engine, uses React to draw the UI | independent | jQuery | jQuery | jQuery 1.9.1+ | jQuery, Bootstrap, Font-Awesome | Optional jQuery version | jQuery 1.7+ | The code is completely library agnostic | YUI | |||||||||
Features | |||||||||||||||||||
Integration mode | in-place | in-place | iframe | in-place | in-place and iframe | in-place | textarea | textarea | in-place | in-place | in-place | in-place and iframe | in-place and iframe | in-place | iframe | iframe | in-place | ||
WYSIWYG | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes Light | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Output format | html bbcode | HTML | HTML5, Configurable | HTML | HTML5 | HTML | HTML Wiki Markup BBCode Textile Dotclear | HTML XHTML | JSON | HTML | HTML5 | HTML5 | HTML5 | HTML | HTML | ||||
Link insertion | Yes | Yes plugin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 | - Plugin; may not work - https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/issues/797 | 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. | No Can't paste from clipboard | Yes | - Drag & drop, but not upload or paste - https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor/issues/657 | No Can't paste images | Yes | - Upload images; can't paste from clipboard - https://github.com/PANmedia/raptor-editor/issues/56 | 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. | - Can paste from clipboard or insert from URL. No option to upload. | - Can't upload or paste - https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml/issues/163 | Yes | Yes |
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 | No No - loses all formatting | Yes | Yes Preserves formatting | Yes Yes Configurable. Enterprise can preserve or remove formatting. | Yes Yes configurable. Premium solution (PowerPaste) can preserve or remove formatting. | - Almost perfect - https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg/issues/131 | |||||||||
Table editing | Yes | Yes plugin | Yes Editing features in context menu. | Yes | Yes v3 comes with one of the most advanced table editing tools. | Yes | No | Yes | No | - 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. | No Would need plugin - https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg/issues/93 | No | Yes | No | ||
Spellchecker | Yes Uses the browser's built-in, can use CKEditor's spellcheck plugins | No | Yes WebSpellChecker.net | No Relies on browser spell checker support | Yes Browser default spellcheck | No | No | No | Yes Uses the browser's built-in | 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. | Yes Uses the browser's built-in | No | No | No | ||
Plugins | Yes Can use almost all of CKEditor's plugins, has a few own too (for example for auto-link insertion) | Yes | Yes Add-ons Repository | Yes https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/docs/plugins | Yes | - no public plugin directory but extensible | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Yes. Always growing list of open source, premium and partner plugins to extend the editor. Includes track changes and comments. | Yes Yes, 3 at the moment - https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg/tree/master/plugins | Yes | No | No | |||||
Toggle to edit HTML | Yes | No Apparently not? | Yes | Yes | Yes Code Mirror integration for HTML highlighting | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 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. | No Yes but may lose formatting - https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg/issues/131 | Yes | Yes | No | ||
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Demo web link | alloyeditor.com | alohaeditor.org | ckeditor.com | getcontenttools.com/... | froala.com/... | github.com/... | jaysalvat.com/... | github.io/... | nicedit.com/... | quilljs.com/... | imperavi.com/... | summernote.org | textbox.io/... | tiny.cloud/... | github.io/... | wysihtml.com | raimundmeyer.de/... | yahoo.com/... | |
Wikipedia | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | wikipedia.org/... | github.com/... | wikipedia.org/... | |||||||||||||
Last update | Nov. 14th 2019 9:46:38 PM | 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 | May 29th 2015 1:41:54 PM | Nov. 14th 2019 9:56:04 PM | Jun. 1st 2015 11:53:28 AM | May 29th 2015 1:41:54 PM | Nov. 14th 2019 9:46:38 PM | May 29th 2015 1:41:54 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 | Nov. 14th 2019 9:54:40 PM | May 29th 2015 1:41:54 PM | May 29th 2015 1:41:54 PM | May 29th 2015 1:41:54 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 | 120 KB | 948 kb, 284kb gzipped | 383 kb, 129kb gzipped | 15 K | ||||||||||||
Floating toolbar | Yes Yes - see demo | Yes Yes: http://ckeditor.com/demo#inline | Yes | 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 | No https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg/issues/69 | ||||||||||
Initialization time | 30 ms |