Tiptap
Ranked 4 of 4 rich text editors by recommenders
Open-source rich text editor that is easy to extend and widely chosen for WYSIWYG editing. Critics say its abstractions get in the way.
Open-source rich text editor that is easy to extend and widely chosen for WYSIWYG editing. Critics say its abstractions get in the way.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 57%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Plug-and-play, easy to extend
“Making this plug and play is fantastic, and the live "editor types" demo on tiptap.dev is spectacularly convincing.”
Comment from 20 May 2026 on Hacker News “when used together with Tiptap it's as easy as adding an extension to your editor”
Comment from 21 May 2026 on Hacker News Well-regarded, well-built project
“it's a great project and I have a lot of respect for it. They're solving a different problem though.”
Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: Zero WYSIWYG – A lightweight, zero-dependency HTML editor” “ended up building off their Y.js backend, which is great”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “Revise – An AI Editor for Documents” “Also very happy to see it's Vue + TipTap. Great choices.”
Comment from 7 May 2026 in “Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Abstractions and React integration compromises
“doesn't have to make any of the compromises that Tiptap's React integration currently makes”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “We're building a better rich text editing toolkit” “Tiptap did not do this, and it is empirically very challenging to manage as a result.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “We're building a better rich text editing toolkit” “kept running into into issues where the abstractions got in the way”
Comment from 31 May 2026 in “Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6”
Other rich text editors people recommend
The three most recommended other rich text editors, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProseMirror | 16 | 6 | 73% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Wordgard | 10 | 9 | 53% | 1 | — | — |
| Lexical | 9 | 5 | 64% | 3 | — | — |
| TiptapThis page | 8 | 6 | 57% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“tiptap doesn't really support html very well”
“kept running into into issues where the abstractions got in the way”
“when used together with Tiptap it's as easy as adding an extension to your editor”
“Making this plug and play is fantastic, and the live "editor types" demo on tiptap.dev is spectacularly convincing.”
“It's basically the go-to option when a good WYSIWYG editor is needed.”
“Also very happy to see it's Vue + TipTap. Great choices.”
“Tiptap which handles large documents well”
“it's a great project and I have a lot of respect for it. They're solving a different problem though.”
“Writers in my team can use a nice Tiptap editor with custom components.”
“Tiptap, mantine etc.are just no substitute”
“ended up building off their Y.js backend, which is great”
“Tiptap did not do this, and it is empirically very challenging to manage as a result.”
“doesn't have to make any of the compromises that Tiptap's React integration currently makes”
“typing in both felt slower than a vanilla contenteditable”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.