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The best Trix alternatives

7 tools that do a similar job to Trix, 7 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

A rich text editor web component for writing messages, comments, and articles in web apps.

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    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

    Full review Trix vs Tiptap
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    Lexical

    Open source · MIT · ★ 24k

    An extensible text editor framework for building rich text editors in web apps.

    Best for: Developers adding a rich text editor to a web app; React teams who want official bindings and a documented quick start

    Full review Trix vs Lexical
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    pell

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12k

    A tiny, dependency-free rich text editor you can drop into a web page.

    Best for: Web developers who need a simple rich text box in a form or admin page; Projects where a small file size matters more than many features

    Full review Trix vs pell
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    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

    Full review Trix vs Milkdown
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    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

    Full review
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    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

    Full review
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    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

    Full review Trix vs Summernote

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 Trix. We don't take payment for placement.