Froala Vs. CKEditor 5: Which Is The Best Editor?
WYSIWYG editors let developers immediately see how the content they develop will display on their live websites. They are convenient and indispensable tools. and, currently, many of them offer different features and pricing plans. That makes choosing the best WYSIWYG editor for your requirements pretty confusing. To make the right choice you need to identify the differences between WYSIWYG editors in the key areas that are important to you and your team.
In order to help you out, this article compares two popular Javascript WYSIWYG editors. They are Froala, the leading editor in the G2 grid for WYSIWYG editors, and CKEditor 5, a modern text editor that supports rich text editing.
In this article, we will look at Froala’s features, pricing, rating, and which WYSIWYG Editor to use, as well as compare how Froala’s Javascript WYSIWYG Editor performs better as a CKEditor alternative.
Froala
Froala is a next-generation beautiful WYSIWYG HTML editor with a clean design. This lightweight HTML editor adds a rich text-editing experience to any application and is easy for developers to integrate.
CKEditor 5
Basically, CKEditor 5 is a modern ES6 text editor. It uses an MVC architecture, a custom data model, and virtual DOM. It also has a clean UI and a rich set of editing features.
Table of Features
| Feature | Froala | CKEditor 5 |
| Basic Editor Features – Bold, italic, underline, subscript, superscript, strikethrough, code, font styles, ident, highlight, alignment, blockquote, headings, horizontal line, lists | Yes | Yes |
| Tables | Yes | Yes |
| Customizations | Yes | Yes |
| Track Changes | Track changes against new or deleted text within the editor, various styling and formatting changes to the text, images, and also tables. | You can keep track of the changes marked as suggestions and see the document revision history. |
| Paste from office applications | Ability to paste content from Microsoft Word and Excel | Ability to paste content from Microsoft Word and Excel or Google Docs |
| Spelling and Grammer Checking | Spell checker | Both included |
| Image insertion by pasting the URL | Yes | Yes |
| Embed media | Yes | Yes |
| Auto-save | Yes | Yes |
| Drag and drop an image | Drag & drop images to reposition them, click to resize, change their alignment, make them links, replace or delete them. | Easy Drag and drop image uploads. |
| Export to PDFÂ | Yes | Yes. Also includes export to word |
| APIÂ | Has a powerful Javascript API that allows you to easily customize and interact with the editor. | CKEditor Cloud Services provides A range of RESTful APIs |
| Equation support | Equation symbols to create equations and through third-party plugins | MathType equation editor to create scientific documents |
| Collaboration Support | No | Include comment threads and real-time collaboration support. |
| Auto-direction | Automatically detects if the keyboard input is RTL or LTR and adjusts text direction. | No |
| Automatic text transformation | No | Allows transforming the text into special characters and symbols |
| Security | Consists of a robust defense mechanism against XSS attacks. | Has Content Security Policy (CSP) support to protect against Cross-site Scripting (XSS) and data injection. |
| Accessibility Compliance | Yes | Yes |
| Image Manager | helps you to easily browse through, insert or delete images on your server. | No |
| Different Image Storage options | No | Yes |
Summary of features
As you can see, both editors consist of many features. Both also give you a rich editing experience. Froala, however, works across all browsers and platforms and supports many languages.
CKEditor 5 also has valuable features like restricted editing, auto-formatting, and auto-completion. In addition, it offers developer-friendly features like online-builder, as well as watchers to detect when an editor instance crashes. Froala wins another round.
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Pricing
Froala
Froala has four reasonable pricing plans. It also offers two subscription options: an annual subscription as well as a one-time perpetual license. Froala also offers a free trial with 30-day free technical support for all subscription plans.
| Plan | Subscription | Perpetual |
| Free | $0 | $0 |
| Professional | ||
| Enterprise |
In addition to that, Froala supports new businesses by providing an ‘Ignition discount,’ — a 35% discount for Pro and Enterprise plans.Â
CKEditor 5
On the other hand, CKEditor 5Â has three monthly and annual subscription plans. It also has a free subscription that suits freelancers and small projects with limited features and no technical support.Â
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
| Free | 0 | 0 |
| Standard | $44 | $37 per month ($444) |
| Flexible | Depends on the services used | Depends on the services used |
For every Froala subscription plan, you also get unlimited active users. CKEditor 5 limits users. Also, with all CKEditor 5 plans, you need to buy add-ons like export-to-pdf and export-to-word separately. Therefore, when it comes to subscription plans, Froala has more options, and pricing is reasonable for all the features it provides. Another win for Froala.
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Documentation
Froala
Froala has comprehensive documentation for both its WYSIWYG editor and design blocks. Frolala documentation includes:
- Quick Start Guides with many example code snippets
- Changelogs
- Migrate from Froala V2 Guide
- Contributing Guidelines
- Help center containing FAQs for various technical questions from basic to advanced integrations.Â
- Complete API documentation for developers.Â
- Quick support for queries via email and phone.
- Online HTML editor
CKEditor 5
CKEditor 5 also has documentation for:
- Examples
- Tutorials
- Developer guides
- Feature ReferencesÂ
- API Documentation.
- Online Demos
- FAQs
- Quick support for queries via email
Essentially, both Froala and CKEditor 5 have a good set of support documents anyone can use. While CKEditor 5 has decent documentation they also have many fewer features to be documented.
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Ease of Use
Froala
Froala has a very simple and clear design that is very easy to use and integrate. It also provides a free online HTML editor, which you can try out without downloading. Since Froala offers many online resources, it is not difficult to quickly learn and master.Â
CKEditor 5
This editor boasts a clean design. It is also is very easy to download, install and use. In addition, it has an online editor for its six different editor builds. You can easily try it out without downloading it. The online documents certainly contain everything you need to know about this editor.
Nevertheless, Froala has an edge due to its better feature set. Ease of use is another category Froala takes the lead.
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Which WYSIWYG Editor Should I Use?
Froala is the best editor with the most reasonable, affordable, and flexible pricing plans. Froala also edges out the competition as far as features, documentation, and ease of use go. The Froala editor gives you more than 100 features that aren’t available in CKEditors’ plans with default features. Thus, as the leader in the G2 platform, Froala editor is the best choice for all your editing requirements.Â
So, don’t wait, download, and start working with this feature-rich Froala editor today!
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