CKEditor Ecosystem

CKEditor 5

The most powerful Open Source rich text editor with a modular & modern architecture and 200+ features. Rock solid and fully customizable.

CKEditor 5 is a ready-to-use editor but also an editing framework with a robust API and tools such as CKEditor 5 inspector or package generator. This allows you to build your own plugins and solutions.
Quality. 32,000+ tests, 100% code coverage, backed by a team of 40+ developers.
Six different UI types. It fits any kind of application, e.g. Document Management System, email platform, CMS, LMS, CRM, chat.
A large set of features (~200), including: paste from Office (Word, Google Docs), Markdown support, support for tables with table properties and column resizing, @mentions, find & replace, autoformatting, source editing, spell and grammar checker.
Great accessibility support.
Export to PDF/Word and import from Word.
Exceptional collaboration features you will not find anywhere else:
- Real-time collaborative editing (with ready-to-use backend with REST API, webhooks and detailed logging),
- Comments and track changes,
- Revision history.

https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-demos - Code examples for CKEditor setups available on demo pages
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-tutorials-examples - Code samples from tutorials on how to create plugins
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-collaboration-samples - A large set of examples on integrating CKEditor 5 with collaboration features

GitHub Writer - Replaces the default GitHub editor with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor (Chrome/Firefox browser extension). No need to remember the Markdown syntax!
CKBox - Ready-to-use file manager / digital asset manager with a native plugin for CKEditor 5.

Note: we recommend starting new projects with CKEditor 5.