Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to CKEditor 4

Product categories

Coding Content Collaboration Developer Tools Document Collaboration HTML Editor IDE IDEs And Text Editors Rich Text Editor Software Development Text Editors WYSIWYG Editor Web Development Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to CKEditor 4 are CKEditor, Summernote, and Sublime Text. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

CKEditor Landing Page
1

CKEditor

Real-time collaborative future-ready rich text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #Rich Text Editor 8 social mentions
Summernote Landing Page
2

Summernote

Summernote is a JavaScript library that helps users create WYSIWYG editors online.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #WYSIWYG Editor 5 social mentions
Sublime Text Landing Page
3

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose - any kind of text file. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Fully customizable with macros, and syntax highlighting for most major languages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 3 social mentions
Notepad++ Landing Page
4

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
5

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Brackets Landing Page
6

Brackets

A modern, open source text editor that understands web design
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 47 social mentions
Quill Landing Page
7

Quill

Powerful, API-driven rich text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #IDEs And Text Editors 29 social mentions
Netbeans Landing Page
8

Netbeans

NetBeans IDE 7.0. Develop desktop, mobile and web applications with Java, PHP, C/C++ and more. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development 15 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
9

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
Aptana Studio Landing Page
10

Aptana Studio

The world’s most powerful open-source web development IDE just got better. Rebuilt from the ground-up. It's now much faster, customizable and includes new features to help you be more productive.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Software Development
ContentTools Landing Page
11

ContentTools

A small & beautiful WYSIWYG editor for HTML content.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #WYSIWYG Editor
AlloyEditor Landing Page
12

AlloyEditor

Modern WYSIWYG editor built with a sleek React UI on top of CKEditor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Rich Text Editor #WYSIWYG Editor