Customize your HTML rich text
editor to suit your app,
project and users
The best dev-first rich text editor. Period.
No matter your project, TinyMCE works best.
How customizable is your
WYSIWYG editor?
Choose the chameleon editor more
businesses trust
Interested in seeing TinyMCE in action?
What does your rich text editor
give you?
There are three approaches to WYSIWYG text
editor customization
Build everything yourself
Limited feature set and plugins +
build the rest
Expansive feature-set + ample
drop-in plugins
Your editor has to look sharp. It must perform miracles. And create magic for its users.
To do all that, you need full access to the code base and the ability to customize its look and feel, while still controlling the functionality.
Of the 5 most popular alternative rich text editors, TinyMCE:
- Is an out-of-the-box JavaScript-based text editor
- Has an expansive feature-set and ample plugins
- Fits all kinds of use cases
A default set of toolbar options is provided to get you started – then configure it (using custom configs, your own code, and APIs) to suit whatever UX demands your users throw at your editor.
Buy built-in customization
vs self-build a rich text editor

Ready-to-use editors
Fully customizable solution which, if open source, comes with core features plus advanced features such as tables, full image support, etc.
All come with full UI, some have custom mobile optimization to adjust and fit into any UI environment.
Full access to code base (TinyMCE + CKEditor), APIs and UI customization options. Simplifies and lowers amount (and cost) of custom setup work, use case based specializations, user customizations and ongoing maintenance.
Editor options:
Editor framework plus
Code base access varies, so the level of customization fluctuates across different editors.
Considered limited in their feature-set and have a smaller selection of features that fail to satisfy more complex use cases.
Any attempt to expand or customize the in-built limitations of these editors, requires more custom coded build-out, longer development time and deep domain knowledge to set up and satisfy use case specific requirements.
Editor options:
Headless frameworks
Provide a foundation devoid of any UI, and usually also any features over and above the simple bold, italic, underline style features.
To configure, build-out, and extend the editor (not to mention build your own customized UI) you have full access to the code base and no need to work around a predetermined user interface.
However, deep domain knowledge of rich text editor complexities and UI expertise is needed, plus ample development time for bug fixes, edge cases.
Editor options:
Rich text editors are high-risk
for both cost and development
time overruns
TinyMCE fits into your
reusable tech stack
Buying and assembling
Minimizes custom-builds outside
your expertise
Facilitates continuous
deployment
Maximizes dev talent who focus
on your app’s core competency
Explore how TinyMCE helps
Why TinyMCE?
Create editorially rich experiences with zero
platform constraints and complete
design flexibility
Out-of-the-box
Users produce better content and devs aren’t bothered by continual support requests to fix bugs, breakages and simple formatting issues. That saves you time, money and creates better overall workflows for every user.
Customizable:
- Configurations
- Plugins
- Permissions
- Languages
- Output
- Media management
- Editing modes
- + more

User Interface (UI)
Control functionality for both technical and non-technical users to effortlessly create and scale amazing digital content on their terms.
Customizable:
- Skins
- Icons
- Colors
- Toolbars
- Controls
- Dialogs
- + more

APIs
Deliver novel content creation experiences with direct access to 400+ editor APIs.
Customizable:
- Behavior
- Custom plugins
- App integration
- Events
- Clipboard
- + more

Looking for projects that
TinyMCE can be used for?
Access use-case specific starter configsto kickstart your rich text editing project
Ready to use TinyMCE for
your project?
Get a quote"TinyMCE satisfied our needs at a competitive cost, and we were able to integrate it without restructuring our product."
"TinyMCE should be at the top of any list if you’re looking for a visual text editor. It’s flexible, integrates well with different systems and is extremely stable."
"In that move towards web-based editing, one of the most critical components was our editor, but to reinvent the wheel and build one seemed like a waste of resources. We found that the market had quite a few offerings, but TinyMCE was the best in terms of flexibility, integration, and support for the capabilities that we were looking at."
One of the web’s most trusted and downloaded platforms for 20+ years
Frameworks
12+ frameworks and 400+ flexible APIs
Easily integrates into your tech stack and enhances your editing experience. 7 first-party and 5 third-party endorsed integrations that make development easier
Hosting
Get TinyMCE two ways Cloud-based or Self-hosted
Get a Free API key to use TinyMCE from the Cloud or Download the SDK for use in your Self-Hosted application
Customization
Modify TinyMCE to suit custom use cases
Developers have full source code control for endless customizations
- Out-of-the-box
- UI customization
- API customization
Need more insights on customizing your rich text editor?

DOCS
Setup inline editing mode

WORLD OF WYSIWYG
Learning to love the menu

WORLD OF WYSIWYG
An inline editor for any application

DOCS
Plugins for TinyMCE

WORLD OF WYSIWYG
Give me some skin: TinyMCE skins and icons

DOCS
Create a skin for TinyMCE

DOCS
TinyMCE core class

HOW-TO USE TINYMCE
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Enterprise-Grade Support
Responsive, in-house support to help you implement, customize and troubleshoot.
Community
Thousands of questions and answers updated daily on StackOverflow and Github.
Documentation
Tutorials, quickstarts, code samples and videos to help you deploy
faster.
Trusted by the hottest startups
and biggest brands
TinyMCE in numbers
350M+
Downloads every single year
100M+
Products powered by TinyMCE
35M+
Hits on our CDN per day
23,000+
Commits on GitHub
194
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Sources:
+ Estimate of the cost of building the basic open source components of three leading rich text editors (excluding advanced features and plugins, maintenance and extensibility work)
^ Using a normalized COCOMO Model, the estimated engineering requirements for building a single clean copy-paste advanced feature (excludes maintenance and extensibility work)
A person-month is equivalent to approximately 160 hours of labor, and is the amount of work performed by a single average worker in one month (ie. 12 person-month project will take 4 developers 3 months work to finish). A person-year is the total effort in person-months divided by twelve, to estimate the project length in years.
COST ESTIMATE CURRENCY
All cost estimates quoted are in US$