The best pell alternatives
6 tools that do a similar job to pell, 6 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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Trix
Open source · MIT · ★ 20k
A rich text editor web component for writing messages, comments, and articles in web apps.
Best for: Developers adding a rich text box to a Rails or other web app; Teams that want simple, consistent HTML output for comments or messages
- 2
Milkdown
Open source · MIT · ★ 12k
A plugin-based markdown editor framework where you type rich text and see formatted output.
Best for: Developers adding a rich markdown editing box to a web app; Teams that want an editor extended through plugins
- 3
Tiptap
Open source · MIT · ★ 38.9k
A headless rich text editor framework for JavaScript apps, with no built-in look.
Best for: Developers building a custom text editor into a web product; Teams using Vue, React, or plain JavaScript who want one editor across frameworks
- 4
Vditor
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.4k
A browser-based Markdown editor with rich-text, live-render and split-view modes.
Best for: Developers who want to embed a Markdown editor in a web app; Teams building a blog, forum or content tool that needs in-browser editing
- 5
wangEditor
Open source · MIT · ★ 18.3k
Open-source web rich text editor that works out of the box, with JS, Vue and React support.
Best for: Developers adding a rich text input to a website; Teams using Vue or React who want an embeddable editor
- 6
Summernote
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.8k
A JavaScript library that adds a simple rich-text (WYSIWYG) editor to web pages.
Best for: Web developers adding a simple formatted-text editor to an existing site; Teams already using jQuery or Bootstrap who want a drop-in editor
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to pell. We don't take payment for placement.