The Best 28 openWYSIWYG Alternatives

  • Markdown icon

    Markdown

    Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    TinyMCE

    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.

    Freemium

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    Aloha Editor

    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...

    Free Open Source Web

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    WYMeditor

    WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG). WYMeditor's main concept is to leave details of the document's...

    Free Open Source Web

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    CLEditor

    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...

    Free Open Source Web

    Lightweight WYSIWYG Support
  • WebsiteBaker icon

    WebsiteBaker

    WebsiteBaker helps you to create the website you want: A free, easy, secure, flexible and extensible Open Source Content Management System.

    Free Open Source Web

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    MarkMyWords

    A minimal markdown editor in the eOS design.

    Free Open Source Linux Vala

  • Fastmail Squire icon

    Fastmail Squire

    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...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted Safari Opera Internet Explorer Chromium

  • PHP Markdown icon

    PHP Markdown

    Introduction This is a library package that includes the PHP Markdown parser and its sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features. Originally it was a port to...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

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    Texy!

    Texy! is a lightweight markup language as well as converter of this format to XHTML, in a form of a library written in the PHP scripting language. It allows the user to...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

    Text formatting Lightweight
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    OpenScholar

    A full-featured open-source web site-creation package designed for the academic community. A single OpenScholar installation can host thousands of personal or project...

    Free Open Source Web

  • Quill icon

    Quill

    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.

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted JavaScript

  • Trix icon

    Trix

    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...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted