tail.writer Alternatives

tail.writer is described as 'A tidy, powerful and extendable Markup ([GitHub Flavored] Markdown, BBCode, Textile) Editor, written in Vanilla JavaScript!' and is an website in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to tail.writer, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Mac, Linux and Ghost apps. The best tail.writer alternative is Wordgard, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to tail.writer are TinyMCE, CKEditor, Tiptap and Glee.

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  1. Wordgard icon
     7 likes

    Open-source, schema-based JavaScript library enabling in-browser rich-text editing, modular extensions for custom elements, accessibility, collaborative real-time editing, UI internationalization, right-to-left writing, structured content, and functional programming style.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • npm
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  2. 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.

    36 TinyMCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
    • Joomla
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  3. 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.

    41 CKEditor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Tiptap icon
     2 likes

    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. Build products with real-time synchronization, amazing content experience, whiteboard collaboration, real-time editing, AI-powered content and version control efficiency.

    35 Tiptap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Glee icon
     4 likes

    Glee publishes Markdown files into Ghost blog posts. With glee, you can create and update Ghost blogs. Since glee operates on plain markdown files, your blog posts are now git-friendly, allowing for easy collaboration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Ghost
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Marksmith icon
     1 like

    GitHub-style markdown editor for Ruby and Rails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby on Rails
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  7. Aloha Editor icon
     11 likes

    Aloha Editor is an HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor that gives you a total new experience when editing. It's faster than existing WYSIWYG technologies and offers unprecedented WYSIWYG functionalities.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  8. SCEditor icon
     8 likes

    A lightweight WYSIWYG BBCode & HTML editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. Editor.js icon
     2 likes

    Editor.js is a block-styled editor for rich media stories. It outputs clean data in JSON instead of heavy HTML-markup. And more important thing is that Editor.js is designed to be API extendable and pluggable.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  10. pell icon
     1 like

    The simplest and smallest (~1kB) WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies 📝

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11.  Like

    The inofficial MIT-licensed fork of the world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing whose latest version is GPL-or-pay now.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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