TinyMCE Alternatives
TinyMCE is described as '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' and is a popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to TinyMCE for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, JavaScript, Opera and Internet Explorer apps. The best TinyMCE alternative is CKEditor. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CKEditor or Trumbowyg. Other great apps like TinyMCE are Quill, Tiptap, ProseMirror and ContentTools Editor.
Alternatives list
The Suneditor is a lightweight, flexible, customizable WYSIWYG text editor for your web applications.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Self-Hosted

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


Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is a WYSIWYG editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Self-Hosted

- 33 HugeRTE alternatives
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

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

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

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
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online


WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
CLEditor is an open source jQuery plugin which provides a lightweight, full featured, cross browser, extensible, WYSIWYG HTML editor that can be easily added into any web site.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online

Comments about CLEditor as an Alternative to TinyMCE


- CLEditor is Free and Open Source
- CLEditor is Lightweight























CLEditor is lightweight, and works! Very easy to install.