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Wysiwyg projects on GitHub

Rich text editors with what you see is what you get editing

As of , the most-starred Wysiwyg projects on GitHub are marktext (62.7K stars), quill (47.4K stars) and tiptap (38.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 30 Wysiwyg repositories with 569.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was wordcraft, with +427 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+427

wordcraft

storytold/wordcraft · ★ 13.7K

WordCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust: a word processor with the Word workflow you know - ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, mail merge - built by the ArtCraft team.

+47

marktext

marktext/marktext · ★ 62.7K

MarkText is an open-source markdown editor focused on speed and usability, with a realtime WYSIWYG preview and a clean, distraction-free writing interface. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.

+13

tiptap

ueberdosis/tiptap · ★ 38.8K

Tiptap is a headless, framework-agnostic rich text editor framework for web apps, built on top of ProseMirror and extended through extensions.

+11

open-knowledge

inkeep/open-knowledge · ★ 4.6K

OpenKnowledge is an AI-native markdown editor and LLM wiki app. It gives you a true WYSIWYG editor for markdown/mdx files plus built-in AI editing integrations with coding agents like Claude, Codex, OpenCode and Pi.

The all-time top

30 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · marktext/marktext

    marktext

    MarkText is an open-source markdown editor focused on speed and usability, with a realtime WYSIWYG preview and a clean, distraction-free writing interface. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows.

    62.7K
  2. #2 · slab/quill

    quill

    Quill is a modern WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) rich text editor for the web, built for compatibility and extensibility.

    47.4K
  3. #3 · ueberdosis/tiptap

    tiptap

    Tiptap is a headless, framework-agnostic rich text editor framework for web apps, built on top of ProseMirror and extended through extensions.

    38.8K
  1. 4

    editor.js

    32Kcodex-team/editor.js · TypeScript

    A free, open-source, block-style text editor for the web: writers compose content from blocks like text, images, lists and quotes, and it saves the result as clean JSON instead of heavy HTML markup.

  2. 5

    slate

    31.7Kianstormtaylor/slate · TypeScript

    A fully customizable framework for building rich text editors in the browser — editors like Medium, Dropbox Paper or Google Docs — built as a pluggable contenteditable on top of React.

  3. 6

    grapesjs

    26.3KGrapesJS/grapesjs · TypeScript

    GrapesJS is a free and open source Web Builder Framework for building HTML templates without coding — templates you can deliver in sites, newsletters or mobile apps.

  4. 7

    lexical

    24Kfacebook/lexical · TypeScript

    Lexical is an extensible text editor framework for the web from Meta, built for reliability, accessibility and performance. You use it to build your own rich-text editors in the browser.

  5. 8

    trix

    20Kbasecamp/trix · JavaScript

    Trix is a free, open-source WYSIWYG rich text editor for web applications, built by 37signals (the creators of Ruby on Rails) and used in Basecamp. It is made for everyday writing: messages, comments, articles, and lists.

  6. 9

    BookStack

    19.1KBookStackApp/BookStack · PHP

    It's a free, open-source platform for storing and organising information and documentation — a self-hosted wiki-style web app written in PHP, around since 2015 with roughly 19,000 GitHub stars.

  7. 10

    docuseal

    18.7Kdocusealco/docuseal · Ruby

    DocuSeal is an open source DocuSign alternative: a web platform for digital document signing. You build PDF forms, send them out, and get them filled and signed online on any device.

  8. 11

    wangEditor

    18.3Kwangeditor-team/wangEditor · TypeScript

    wangEditor is an open-source WYSIWYG rich text editor for the web, currently at version 5. It is built to work out of the box with simple configuration.

  9. 12

    tui.editor

    18Knhn/tui.editor · TypeScript

    TOAST UI Editor is an open-source Markdown editor for the web that offers both a Markdown mode and a WYSIWYG mode, extensible with plugins for charts, UML and code highlighting.

  10. 13

    plate

    16.7Kudecode/plate · TypeScript

    Plate is an open-source rich-text editor framework for React: a plugin system on top of Slate, headless Radix-based primitives, ready-made shadcn/ui components, and AI support built in.

  11. 14

    novel

    16.5Ksteven-tey/novel · TypeScript

    Novel is an open-source, Notion-style WYSIWYG editor with AI-powered autocompletions — a writing surface that looks like Notion and finishes your sentences with AI.

  12. 15

    tinymce

    16.3Ktinymce/tinymce · TypeScript

    TinyMCE is the world's most popular open-source JavaScript library for rich text editing on the web — a WYSIWYG HTML editor used by companies like Atlassian, Medium, and Evernote, with 350M+ downloads a year.

  13. 16

    medium-editor

    16.1Kyabwe/medium-editor · JavaScript

    MediumEditor is a clone of the medium.com inline editor toolbar - a WYSIWYG rich text editor for web pages, built on the contenteditable API.

  14. 17

    MuseScore

    15.3Kmusescore/MuseScore · C++

    MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation (sheet music) software for writing, editing, and printing scores.

  15. 18

    wordcraft

    13.7Kstorytold/wordcraft · Rust

    WordCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust: a word processor with the Word workflow you know - ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, mail merge - built by the ArtCraft team.

  16. 19

    puck

    13.5Kpuckeditor/puck · TypeScript

    Puck is a modular, open-source visual editor for React.js that lets you build custom drag-and-drop editing experiences using your own React components.

  17. 20

    pell

    12Kjaredreich/pell · JavaScript

    pell is a WYSIWYG rich text editor for the web — the simplest and smallest one around, with zero dependencies. You embed it in a page and users get a toolbar for formatting text.

  18. 21

    milkdown

    12KMilkdown/milkdown · TypeScript

    Milkdown is a plugin-driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework, inspired by Typora, built on top of ProseMirror and remark.

  19. 22

    summernote

    11.8Ksummernote/summernote · JavaScript

    Summernote is a JavaScript library that helps you create WYSIWYG rich text editors with a simple, easy-to-use interface.

  20. 23

    vditor

    11.4KVanessa219/vditor · TypeScript

    Vditor is a browser-based Markdown editor that supports WYSIWYG (rich text), Instant Rendering (Typora-like), and Split View preview modes.

  21. 24

    django-cms

    10.7Kdjango-cms/django-cms · Python

    django CMS is a lean, open-source enterprise content management system built on Django for creating and running content-heavy websites with structured publishing workflows.

  22. 25

    ckeditor5

    10.5Kckeditor/ckeditor5 · JavaScript

    CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich-text (WYSIWYG) editor with an MVC architecture, a custom data model and a virtual DOM, written from scratch in TypeScript.

  23. 26

    BlockNote

    10.3KTypeCellOS/BlockNote · TypeScript

    BlockNote is an open source block-based rich text editor for React with a Notion-style editing experience, built on top of ProseMirror and Tiptap. You embed it in your own app.

  24. 27

    simplemde-markdown-editor

    10.1Ksparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor · JavaScript

    SimpleMDE is a simple, embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor — a drop-in replacement for a textarea with a WYSIWYG-style toolbar, live syntax styling, built-in autosaving, and spell checking.

  25. 28

    Instatic

    9KCoreBunch/Instatic · TypeScript

    An open-source, self-hosted visual CMS positioned against Webflow, Framer and WordPress: editor, content engine, media, auth, forms, plugins and publisher all in one Bun server, publishing clean static pages.

  26. 29

    open-knowledge

    4.6Kinkeep/open-knowledge · TypeScript

    OpenKnowledge is an AI-native markdown editor and LLM wiki app. It gives you a true WYSIWYG editor for markdown/mdx files plus built-in AI editing integrations with coding agents like Claude, Codex, OpenCode and Pi.

  27. 30

    Smartstore

    1.7Ksmartstore/Smartstore · C#

    Smartstore is a modular, open-source all-in-one eCommerce platform built on ASP.NET Core 10, offering a full storefront plus backend for managing a multi-language, multi-store, multi-currency online shop.

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