Free Self-Hosted Text Editors

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  1. Hurmet icon
     16 likes

    Hurmet is a web-based rich text editor endowed with live calculations. With it, you can create documents that do calculations and preserve an easy-to-read record of your work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Hurmet screenshot 1
  2. HedgeDoc icon
     29 likes

    HedgeDoc (fcommunity-driven fork of CodiMD) is an open-source collaborative markdown editor. With HedgeDoc you can easily collaborate on notes, graphs and even presentations in real-time. All you need to do is to share your note-link to your co-workers, and they’re ready to go.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    HedgeDoc screenshot 1
    29 alternatives
  3. TinyMCE icon
     50 likes

    TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
    • Joomla
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    32 alternatives
  4. CKEditor icon
     40 likes

    CKEditor 4 and CKEditor 5 are easy-to-implement open source JavaScript WYSIWYG rich text editors for any web browser. CKEditor Ecosystem has 2 very distinct rich text editors as well as image upload and collaboration solutions.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    CKEditor 5 Classic build
    CKEditor 5 Balloon Block build
    CKEditor 5 - Comments with real-time collaborative editing
    +5
    CKEditor 5 - Track changes
    39 alternatives
  5. Quill icon
     3 likes

    Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. With its modular architecture and expressive API, it is completely customizable to fulfill any need.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    Quill screenshot 1
    33 alternatives
  6. Codeit icon
     2 likes

    Codeit is a mobile code editor connected to Git. Runs on the web, open source and free. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Bootstrap, XML and more. Easy to use without how to.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Codeit screenshot 1
    Codeit screenshot 1
    19 alternatives
  7. Litewrite icon
     3 likes

    Litewrite was built out of a need to have a simple way of taking notes, having them everywhere, working on any device, regardless if on- or offline.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • RemoteStorage
    Litewrite screenshot 1
    10 alternatives
  8. Firepad icon
     6 likes

    An open source collaborative code and text editor. Share documents and see changes occur in real-time. It uses Firebase for real-time data synchronization

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Firebase
    Firepad screenshot 1
    26 alternatives
  9. Squire is an HTML5 rich text editor, which provides powerful cross-browser normalisation, whilst being supremely lightweight and flexible. It is built for the present and the future, and as such does not support truly ancient browsers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Internet Explorer
    • Safari
    • Opera
    • Chromium
    • Firefox
    22 alternatives
  10. Monod icon
     3 likes

    Monod was a secure and offline-first, React-based Markdown editor. Development has STOPPED and the app has been taken down.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • React
    Monod screenshot 1
    54 alternatives
  11. MediumEditor icon
     2 likes

    MediumEditor is a Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone, a dead simple inline editor toolbar. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    MediumEditor screenshot 1
    32 alternatives
  12. Hive.js icon
     2 likes

    Hive.js is a real-time collaboration platform that is modular, scalable, integratable and extensible. It's a Node.js-based server with an accompanying web app that works in your browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    Real-time collaboration
    Rich REST API
    Multi-lingual
  13. NyaoVim icon
     1 like

    NyaoVim is a Neovim frontend built on Electron. The Neovim editor is composed as a Web Component and users can extend the UI with reusable Web Components, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    NyaoVim screenshot 1
    NyaoVim screenshot 1
    NyaoVim screenshot 2
    11 alternatives
  14. ORY Editor is a React based editor for the web built that follows some important principles in modern web development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    ORY Editor screenshot 1
    ORY Editor screenshot 1
    32 alternatives
  15. React Rich Text Editor is a UI component built completely in React that is meant to be a full-featured textarea replacement. It's based on the excellent, open source Draft.js from Facebook which is performant and production-tested.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • React
    • JavaScript
    React Rich Text Editor screenshot 1
    31 alternatives