# CKEditor Reviews **Vendor:** CKSource **Category:** [WYSIWYG Editors](https://www.g2.com/categories/wysiwyg-editors) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 66 ## About CKEditor CKEditor 5 is an AI-powered rich text editor built for modern applications that need a reliable, enterprise-ready editing experience. It combines a fully customizable editing framework with built-in collaboration, AI writing assistance, and document interoperability features such as import from Word and export to Word or PDF. From advanced document editors to lightweight email and messaging experiences, building with CKEditor gives you full control over the UX and backend integrations. It supports scaling up as requirements grow, without needing a new editor. CKEditor supports a wide range of writing and review workflows, with configuration options that help teams tailor the experience to specific audiences and use cases. Setup tools, including an online builder, help teams assemble editor builds and adjust feature sets more quickly during implementation. It is designed to fit into existing product architectures, with APIs and integrations that support both frontend and backend customization. With 300 plus features, teams can assemble a feature set that matches their users needs. This includes capabilities for structured document work such as document outline and pagination support, as well as productivity and governance features like accessibility support and restricted editing, alongside a wide range of formatting, content structuring, and productivity features. CKEditor AI supports brainstorming, drafting, reviewing, and refining content directly in the editor. It includes chat based generation and quick actions such as rewriting, summarizing, and tone adjustments. AI generated changes can be delivered as suggestions in the content, helping teams review and accept edits within existing approval workflows. Collaboration supports both real time and asynchronous review workflows with Track Changes, Comments, and Revision history. Real time collaboration enables multiple users to edit the same document at the same time while using these review tools, supporting content creation and feedback cycles inside a single application. Content conversion helps preserve structure when importing or pasting content from Word or Excel, and supports export to Word or PDF while maintaining formatting. This includes keeping review context such as suggestions and comments where applicable. File and media workflows can be supported through integrated tools with CDN delivery for serving assets at scale. CKBox provides a centralized file manager for uploading, organizing, editing, and delivering files, while Image Optimizer by Uploadcare focuses on image specific workflows such as uploads, optimization, editing, and consistent delivery across different environments. CKEditor works with modern tech stacks through maintained integrations with frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue.js. It can also be used in environments like Electron or mobile applications depending on implementation requirements. Deployment options include cloud hosting, self hosting on premises, and hybrid setups depending on architecture, security, and compliance requirements. ## CKEditor Reviews ### 1. CK Editor provides a lot out-of-the-box and is expandable as well **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thorsten K. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** To use CK Editor as a formatable textarea, there is not much to do. It can easy be configured and support various of formatting options out of the box. What helped us is, that it is expandable. If there isn't a feature, which CKEditor provides out-of-the-box (or buy their paid services), you can write your own plugins. Once you understood their events and what they provide, it is highly customizable. And if you can't figure out an issue yourself, the customer support has an open ear for you everytime. Since we are a paying customer, i can't tell anything about the customer support, if you use the free version. The documentation has many examples and showcases, so it sould be easy for you to integrate it into your app. Since we did our own plugins, we compile as well our own CK Editor on top of the standard one. It took a bit to understand, how we should do it, but an example project helped us with the start. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Since everything went fine up until now (using it since 2019), i do not see any drawback. The only thing i can remember is, that I asked for a feature and they declined, because this isn't on their roadmap right now. But hey, this is totally understandable. They should concentrate their work on what most of the users request... not just me :-) **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** They provide a WYSIWYG textarea and let our user write formatted content. And with their payable services, they provide our customers the possibility to collaborate and work on the same text at the same time. **Official Response from Gökçe Tosun:** > Thank you for the thoughtful and detailed review. We are glad to hear that CKEditor has been serving your team well since 2019 and that you find it both powerful out of the box and easy to extend. We appreciate your feedback about feature requests and are happy to know that the documentation and support have been helpful throughout your integration. ### 2. Easy Integration and Responsive Support, But High Price and Paid Features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastien D. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2025 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** We used CKeditor as part of the development of an internal media workflow. The integrated features of CKeditor allowed us to enhance collaboration between users through the comments plugin, and also enabled us to integrate our own designs into the interface. We also developed custom plugins to meet our specific needs, and integrated a library to add documents linked to the HTML document. We are satisfied with the product. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** The price remains quite high, and it is unfortunate that some features or plugins require an additional payment. We would have also liked to have more extensive support for integration with Vue.js and Typescript. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKeditor has allowed us to have a solid foundation for developing our internal editorial workflow. **Official Response from Gökçe Tosun:** > Thank you for the detailed feedback and for choosing CKEditor for your internal workflow. We are pleased to hear that the collaboration and customization features have supported your development needs. We understand your concerns about pricing and framework support, and we are continuously working to make our offering more flexible and better aligned with different tech stacks. ### 3. CKEditor Angular integration provides a smooth and powerful WYSIWYG editing experience. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mubeen A. | Frontend Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2025 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Classic editor and Inline editor are what I like most, and there we override built-in CKEditor classes and modify the UI according to UX. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I am using the Angular framework, so I need to install dependencies separately, like for the Classic editor and Inline editor, both require separate installation. I think there should be a centralized approach. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it in the comment section, like when I'm making some modules and I need an editor to allow users to comment well and with more features, so I use it there. ### 4. CKEditor Platform: Feature-Rich and Flexible, but Complex to Customize **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2025 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** The CKEditor Platform offers an impressive range of features and can be tailored or purchased to suit our specific requirements. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** The wide range of flexible options can make it somewhat challenging to choose the right components. While this flexibility is a positive aspect, it does add complexity to the purchasing process. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform allows us to import various forms of documents and maintain our desired format. CKEditor is our embedded document editor. **Official Response from Gökçe Tosun:** > Thank you for your kind words and for the great review. We are happy that you appreciate the flexibility and rich features of CKEditor. We understand that so many options can make setup decisions more complex, and our team is always ready to help you choose the best configuration for your needs. ### 5. Great for CMS, Blogs, Email Editors & Rich Text Web Apps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2026 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** I like following things Content Management Systems (CMS) Blog platforms Email editors Documentation systems Any web application requiring rich text input **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Following things are dislike Performance Issues Complexity Licensing & Cos Customer support **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKEditor is widely used by developers because it's reliable, well-documented, and provides a familiar editing experience for end users while maintaining clean HTML output for web applications ### 6. Seamless Integration and Clean UI—Feels Like a Native Feature **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2025 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Seamless integration and a modern, clean UI. It feels like a native part of our application, not a clunky add-on. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Honestly, it's hard to find a real flaw. The pricing is fair for the value, and it's incredibly reliable. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKEditor provides a modern, intuitive writing experience that feels seamless. This means our team actually enjoys creating content, leading to faster publishing and less frustration. **Official Response from Gökçe Tosun:** > Thank you for the wonderful feedback and the 5-star review. We are delighted that CKEditor integrates so smoothly into your application and enhances your team’s writing experience. It is great to hear that both usability and reliability are delivering real value for your workflow. ### 7. It was a sweet experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oluwadara A. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2025 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Ease of integration into my frontend application. I could manipulate it as much as I want **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I now need a license key, meaning I have to pay to use the editor, which is bad for business. I might seek free options **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing seamlessly on the web just like you would do an a desktop app such as Microsoft word ### 8. Easy to use and easy to custom (Good for developer and the user) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonardo T. | Web Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** As I said, its easy to use. And the rich text editor is make more complete. The CKEditor5 is have huge different from CKEditor4, the new on is has elegant skin! **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I think its more about the technical, for beginners (who have to code) its kinda hard to find something when they (and me actualy) want to create some custom plugin. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKEditor is great text editor with bunch of features (rich text). Its almost solve all the problem for text editor must supposed to be. Its make me focus on my application other features instead of create some rich text by my self. ### 9. A useful tool to save time and simplify processes **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2025 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** I actually like the fact I don't need many windows open since I can handle my content editing via the editor directly. Got introduced to it by a friend and it works like a charm for what it's supposed to do. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I don't use it very often, so I didn't find yet any drawback. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solved the problem of having to open multiple software, windows and/or tabs in order to do content editing tasks, which removes the "boilerplate actions" and allowing to focus on the content itself. ### 10. Great product and great support ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geoffrey B. | General Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** CKEditor has proven to be an indispensable tool for our content creation, offering unmatched flexibility and a robust set of features that cater to all our text editing needs. Its seamless integration into various platforms coupled with the ability to customize and scale makes it a standout solution. Moreover, the exceptional customer service provided by the CKEditor team has significantly enhanced our experience, with quick and helpful responses to any queries we've had. We highly recommend CKEditor for any team looking for a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly content editing solution. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Not much to say except that the pricing structure is not easy to understand and would definetly have the hability to know it in advance and not after using hte product. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its helping us implementing WYSIWYG editors throughout our app. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you, Geoffrey, for your thoughtful review. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts about our product. The team will be pleased to see how satisfied you are with our product and support. We also value your feedback on our pricing structure. We continuously review our practices and will take your ideas into account. ### 11. Best WYSIWYG editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** CKEditor is incredibly versatile and user-friendly, making content creation seamless. Its customizable features, robust plugin ecosystem, and real-time collaboration capabilities enhance productivity. The clean interface and powerful tools ensure a smooth editing experience for both beginners and advanced users. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** While CKEditor offers a wide range of features and customization options, the lack of a built-in line-height plugin is a notable limitation. This missing feature can hinder precise text formatting and requires additional customization efforts. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKEditor addresses many content creation needs with its extensive features and customization options. However, its inability to solve the line-height issue is a drawback. If CKEditor included a line-height plugin, it would significantly improve text formatting precision and overall editing efficiency. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for your review of our product. We appreciate your experiences and I've forwarded your comment about line-height to our product team. ### 12. Easy To Configure, Easy To Ship, Easy To Use - Rich Text Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhikarsh G. | Software Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2023 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** CKEditor along with it's big suite of plugins helps us in creating a feature that is a vital cog of our functionality. Customer Support has been good. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Has been a good journey all along, couple of areas of improvement as follows:- CKEditor is easy to integrate and configure for basic use cases, but requires considerable amount of efforts to build custom solutions leveraging their package. The learning curve is a bit steep for the developers. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are an All-in-one smart GRC SaaS simplifying risk management and compliance for cloud-native companies. CKEditor helps in drafting unique policy documents which govern rules and steps around how to acheive compliance across different frameworks like SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, GDPR and so on. With CKEditor, we benefit from Templatised Documents, Revision History for better tracking of changes, Comments support for increased collaboration between us and our customers, and various editing tools to make the documents look and feel similar to MS Word and it's equivalents. **Official Response from Valeria Kokina:** > Abhikarsh, thank you so much for your review! We're thrilled to hear about your positive experience with CKEditor 5 and how it contributes to the success of your All-in-one smart GRC SaaS. Please know that your suggestions are taken seriously. Enhancing ease of integration and reducing the learning curve are top priorities for us in the upcoming months. We're committed to making CKEditor 5 even more user-friendly. Thank you for choosing CKEditor 5—we're excited to continue supporting your success. ### 13. Highly comprehensive set of tools, highly customizable (if not all easy) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** The editor itself is robust and delivers all the things that one could want from a rich text editor. CKEditor provides a wide range of options for customizing the editor. The codebase is quite clean, and it's possible (not easy, but still quite possible!) to extend by forking the project. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** CKEditor bundle is quite big, even when trying to trim unneeded features. Also, while the codebase is quite clean, the build system is highly complex, and the first attempts at modifying the code will probably be rejected by the pre-commit hook. The development is very active, which is of course a good thing, but it's also a moving target: it takes a lot of effort to merge upstream changes to our customized fork, about yearly. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to offer our users an easy editor that has just the right set of tools. Too many tools or options would distract the users, too few would make them unhappy. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for your detailed review of CKEditor! We're glad you find our editor robust and customizable. We appreciate your feedback on bundle size and build complexities, as well as the challenges with merging changes. Your insights are valuable to us. Thank you for your support! ### 14. Good editor **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit R. | CEO, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Stable and works in nearly 100% of the cases. Never faced any challenge. Customer support has been quick to respond whenever I had a query. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** It's heavy to load. We use multiple modules, but it's heavy to load in the browser. The React sdk could be improvised so the integration is smoother. Priced slightly higher. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKEditor has been helping Docupilot to offer an online WYSIWYG editor to build document templates. ### 15. One of the first WYSIWYG editors for the web **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lubos B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** We are using CKEditor for several ywars, I think from version 3 in our WebJET CMS system. Implementation was easy, we also like selection of various plugins. We also implemented some plugins for ourselves. The API documentation was great. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Current version is licensed under GPL license, that means you need to buy commercial license, if you want to use it in your project for customers. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CKEditor in our WebJET CMS system for webpages maintenance and management. We choose it because of familiar user interface like Word or Excel, support for context menus and also drag & drop of upload of the images and files. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for your review! We're pleased to hear that CKEditor has been a reliable choice for your WebJET CMS system for several years, offering easy implementation and a selection of useful plugins. ### 16. Excellent way to make any site feel more professional. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan R. | Senior Technology Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** The level of customization from CK editor is just awesome. Whether you need something simple or looking to use every editing feature this should be the tool you choose. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I would love if they had more themes and styles to use, especially for the icons so you can choose one that aligns with your style. The default ones are pretty good though. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating internal applications that require an advanced editor. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Ryan, Thank you for taking your time to leave us a review. We love hearing from customers, and I'll be sure to show our team your thoughts. Your feedback on customization options and your suggestion for more themes and styles are valuable and something we'll look at in the future as we continuously improve our products for customers just like you. Thank you for choosing CKEditor. ### 17. Very Capable Editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** CKEditor provides an easy-to-use plug and play addition to your UI toolset. It's feature-rich interface has a familiar feel for users, and we were able to easily customize it to meet our needs for a semaless integration into our application. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** The pricing model could be more flexible and transparent, leveraging monthly subscription options, and making them available on their website. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKEditor provides a familiar interface in which users can create their own content without fear of bad code damaging our data or our modifying our website layout. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for sharing your feedback on CKEditor! We're glad to hear that you find it to be an easy-to-use addition to your UI toolset, with a feature-rich interface that's customizable for seamless integration into your application. Regarding your comments on pricing, we appreciate your input. We're continuously evaluating our pricing structure to ensure transparency and flexibility. Your suggestion for monthly subscription options is duly noted, and we'll explore ways to make them more accessible on our website. ### 18. An excellent rich text editor with useful add-ons **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak B. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2023 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** We use it in a customer-facing product with several add-ons, such as Real-time collaboration and versioning. We also use a light version of this editor to power other features in the product, such as text for chatting and providing updates to our customers via a document. We look to expand our use cases with this product. Their support is also on point. They are patient with your issues and always attempt to find a resolution. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** The editor collaboration component can sometimes be slow to load, but it's a great feature since you can provide a Google Docs-like feature out of the box for your customers. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CK Editor helps our customers generate rich text content within the product. This is done across documents and text used in chat. The customers also use it to collaborate with other people within and outside the company for document editing. **Official Response from Gökçe Tosun:** > Thank you very much for taking the time to share your feedback! It's encouraging to hear about the various ways you've integrated CKEditor. We're also glad to hear that our support team has been able to assist effectively. Your comment on the loading speed of the editor collaboration component is duly noted. We always aim to optimize our features, and feedback like this helps us to improve. Once again thank you for entrusting us with such crucial components of your product, we look forward to serving you even better in the future. Warm regards, CKEditor Team ### 19. CKEditor 5; it's a powerful tool for web content editing! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** CKEditor is an excellent tool for content creators to easily add content to a website without needing knowledge of HTML and CSS. It's easy to configure and flexible enough to customize. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** In some instances it can create empty paragraphs for spacing. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** CKEditor solves the problem of complexity in web content management by providing a user-friendly, WYSIWYG interface. This enables individuals without technical expertise in HTML or CSS to create, format, and publish content directly on our website. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for your review! We're happy to hear that CKEditor is user-friendly and customizable. We'll look into the issue with empty paragraphs. CKEditor simplifies web content management, enabling anyone to create and publish content without technical skills. We're glad it's been helpful for you. ### 20. CkEditor its a complete and compelling tool to deliver our content in our web projects. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Franco Paolo C. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** The end user approach, less technical skills needed to share access among editors and collabs involved plus our security integrations, so easy to user, implement and use. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** No cons at this point, we didnt found any cons with CKEditor **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** we didnt wanted to use a wordpress classic platform , we wanted to use a more secure and end user friendly platform plus our IAM / PAM features to provide access to manage our content properly. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for your review! We're delighted to hear our approach and ease of use, along with its security integrations, have been valuable for your needs. CKEditor aims to help users like you manage content effectively while maintaining security. ### 21. Dependable Editor with option to extended capabilities. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** The editor has been a stable peice of software in our own software that we can easily extend to fit our needs. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** As with any library, there can be pains when upgrades are necessary. Also, sometimes documentation can become out of date, as a result. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives us a robust editor for the users of our applications to reliably enter rich text data. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for taking the time to review CKEditor. We're glad to hear that you've chosen our product to meet your needs. Ensuring product stability is a priority for us, as we understand the importance of maintaining the high quality standards that you and your users expect. We appreciate your feedback on upgrade difficulty, and we recognize that there's room for improvement in this area. Rest assured, we'll pass your comments along to our technical team for further consideration. Thanks again! ### 22. Exceptional product, customer support, and technical team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** TLDR: our experience with CKEditor has been nothing short of impressive. It is a powerful and flexible editor, supported by a great team that truly believes in the product they have created. CKEditor hasa ton of advanced features that meet/exceed the needs of our enterprise users. Some of the features that are important to our users are: version history, track changes, spell check, find and replace, and real-time collaboration. Integrating CKE into our enterprise SaaS product wasn't very hard and they have solid documentation. RE CS, we have consistently received prompt and knowledgeable responses to our inquiries, even when the issue is highly technical. CKEditor team does a good job of keeping us up to date about progress and surprisingly does a great job providing estimated resolution dates. The technical team at CKEditor are experts in their field. We have regular meetings with them to discuss our advanced requirements and collaborate on developing new features. They're super dedicated and go the extra mile to make sure we're happy. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I really don't have any negatives that I can think of. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We embed CKE intor our enterprise SaaS product that helps our customers automate their document-based workflows. They're easily able to transition to our product b/c how similar CKE is to Word and Google docs and doesn't require any training. If we didn't have CKE, I'm not sure we would be able to meet our customers needs without a massive investment in building out features that our users expect like track changes, commenting, real-time collaboration, importing/exporting to PDF/Word, version history, etc. **Official Response from Valeria Kokina:** > Thank you for your outstanding review! We're thrilled to hear CKEditor 5 has made a powerful impact on your enterprise. Your praise for our advanced features, seamless integration, and exceptional customer support means a lot. We're committed to maintaining this level of excellence. Thanks for choosing CKEditor 5 —we look forward to continually exceeding your expectations. ### 23. Very useful real-time collaborative Editor with multiple plug-ins **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakash C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2023 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** We use it for our medical transcript documentation with real time collaboration, track changes and other plug-ins, similar to MS-Word but with better UI and UX. The tool integrates seamlessly with our application, is medium complex when comes to learning and implementing it. It largely does what it is intended and supposed to do! Customer support team is extremely helpful, proactive and quick to respond to our queries. We plan to extend our use cases by making it doctor facing who can self edit the patient transcripts using AI and ML. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** We did face initial hurdles due to learning curve, performance when loading the page, spell check and few other known bugs but they were resolved by CKEditor over a period of time. Release cycles are painfully long in today's world when companies like Netflix perform multiple deployments and updates on a daily basis. Need to adapt to modern consumer demands and use automation for testing and deployment. Need to work with webspell checker and enhance it in line with its' competitors like grammarly or integrate grammarly with CKEditor at a discounted price for its' customers. Implement Speech to Text transcript and seamless integration with Cloud. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CKEditor for our operations team and doctors to generate medical transcripts online using web application so that everything can be stored on cloud, versioned, history and audit managed, improve productivity and efficiency of our users, and seamless integration with modern AI and LLM models for speech to text recognition and summarization. **Official Response from Valeria Kokina:** > Thanks for your positive review! We're thrilled CKEditor 5 is enhancing your medical transcript documentation with real-time collaboration and useful plugins. We're grateful for your feedback on seamless integration, user-friendly UI/UX, and the support of our customer team. We've recently introduced an AI Assistant feature, enabling you to seamlessly integrate CKEditor 5 with OpenAI API. It's designed to enhance your experience and open new possibilities for your medical transcript documentation. The recent introduction of the AI Assistant is just the beginning and we plan to introduce new enhancements soon. ### 24. CKEditor has been an indispensable part of our internal applications for years. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Reliable and feature -rich. Intuitive UI. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Sometimes price is too high - in case we need just small part of functionality of the product. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing articles in our Knowledge system. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for sharing your feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you find CKEditor reliable and feature-rich with an intuitive UI. Your comment about pricing is duly noted, and we'll take it into consideration as we strive to provide value to our users. It's great to know that CKEditor is helping you with editing articles in your Knowledge system. We appreciate your support! ### 25. Fit for purpose **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Competitive features compared to competition **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Cost is probably the main detractor for CKE **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** In product WYSIWYG ### 26. This good plugin to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hendi S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** RIch Text Editor and all the features. Easy to integrate with other programming language and platforms **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** nothing. I like everything with CKEditor **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Document Editor **Official Response from Holly Waits:** > Thanks for your positive review! We're thrilled to hear that you like everything about CKEditor and have found implementation easy. Best of luck on your project! ### 27. development and deployment of in-house production engineering information management system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** flexibility of customization, basic features **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** We don't have complaint about your CKEditor especially. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** By our customazation, engineers have gotten the system to enter richtext document on web. **Official Response from Dan Wilson:** > Thank you for your review! We're glad to hear that you appreciate the flexibility of customization and basic features in CKEditor. We appreciate your feedback and support! ### 28. Supportive, Collaborative, Responsive & Simple To Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2023 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** CKEditor has a stellar support team. I appreciate that we have folks ready to help us with our issues and respond to the bugs we report. CKEditor provides some great plugins, which we have been integrating into our product and are working wonderfully. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** It is tough to have composer as a product, you will have some kind of edge case and when you go in to fix that, something else could break for someone else. One thing which will be helpful to do is to do extra QA checks before shipping a new version. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our products needs a composer to compose responses. This is where CKEditor comes in. CKEditor powers the composer that's used to generate responses by our customers. **Official Response from Gökçe Tosun:** > Thank you very much for sharing your experience! We take pride in our commitment to ensure our users have a seamless experience, so we're glad to hear that our team is living up to that promise and that our plugins have become a valuable asset to your product. We appreciate the feedback how potential improvements to our QA process can help handling the edge cases better. It is an invaluable insight for us to continuously enhance our product and address the areas where we can do better. We're always here to support and enhance your experience further. Best regards, CKEditor Team ### 29. Good and easy to use, but bad for backward compatibility. Not preserve input code **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Easy for users to use, and easy implementation, rich features, easy to integrate to any project. Great customer support. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Poor backward compatibility from CKE4. If preserve content is important, you will hate CKE 5. Our team was flooded with angry customers' complaints for changing data. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allow customers to put formmated content. **Official Response from Ludwika Słowikowska:** > Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We truly appreciate your insights, and we'd like to address your concerns. First and foremost, we want to acknowledge your observations regarding the backward compatibility between CKEditor 4 and CKEditor 5. You're right; there have been instances where content preservation and compatibility have posed challenges during the upgrade process, especially for users with extensive legacy content or those who heavily rely on features like source mode. Over the past few years, the CKEditor team has been diligently working to improve this situation. While we understand it's not yet ideal, we've made significant strides in enhancing compatibility between the versions. We've introduced new plugins and features that aim to better preserve your content during upgrade and make the transition smoother. We're committed to continuing these efforts to provide a more seamless experience for our users. Regarding your specific experience, we'd like to help further investigate any compatibility issues you've encountered with CKEditor 5. It's possible that some known workarounds or optimizations might be available to address the concerns you've raised. To assist you more effectively, we encourage you to reach out to our technical support team. They can work closely with you to identify and address any specific compatibility issues you're facing. Plus your further feedback will be invaluable in helping us refine CKEditor and ensure it meets your expectations. Once again, thank you for your feedback, and please don't hesitate to get in touch with our support team. Best regards, The CKEditor Team ### 30. Shady Company!!! DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR SERVICES! **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** I signed up for their monthly subscription which later they changed it to annual contract and updated terms and conditions. I asked them to cancel my subscription and their customer support said to get back to them in 12 months and meanwhile they will charge me every month. I will be reporting the charges to my bank and do not recommend signing up for their subscription. Their editor ended up being awful and caused us a lot of issues. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Editor is awful and their customer support even worse. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** Do NOT use any services provided by this company there are a lot of editors out there from opensource options to SaaS platforms. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** None **Official Response from Marta Binkiewicz:** > Dear Customer, We are really sorry to hear that our product did not meet your expectations. Sadly, your review does not provide any details regarding the numerous issues you experienced so it’s difficult for us to offer any solutions here. However, as a Customer, you can always reach out to our Customer Support with any technical issues and they will assist you in resolving them (as this is included in the paid service). As for the subscription length issue that you mentioned, CKEditor 4 was never available for a one-month subscription and this is clearly stated in the Terms and Conditions that have to be accepted upon purchase. The minimum subscription period for CKEditor 4 is one year, and the term “monthly” refers to the payment option selected (that is, your account being charged on a monthly basis throughout the one-year subscription period). We hope this makes things a bit clearer. If you have any further doubts, feel free to reach out to us. Kind regards, The CKEditor Team ### 31. Improve your web-page editing using CKEditor 4 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** amar k. | Writer, Industrial Automation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** First of all it is an open source tool and it is easier to install, integrate with the applications and configure. One is able to insert images and paste writings from word document. Has a unique way of spell checking ensuring no errors in the pages.During formatting of edited text I can choose from different style formats available with no limitation.The important part i like is the html formatting tool it has which ensure i design my work anywhere i want in my page. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** i have never experienced any challenges while using the CKEditor 4 tool **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** For those people considering to choose the best text editing and writing content to their web pages they should consider choosing the CKEditor 4 for its efficiency and good results. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps in updating content in my web page this improves my real time functionality of the site. Have reduce time of editing my web pages in need be. Being very easier to use, everyone in my company can use it with ease ### 32. Very useful, Fast with tons of amazing features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Waleed B. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** The easy way to set up, the fast loading (instead of loaded with full features), and the options I have to edit my web pages and documents on the fly, without the need to manually edit them then upload to the server. Actually, I am using this editor since 6 years for my own use and also for my best clients who want to build CMS websites, I used this editor to build a complete CMS for UK garden website. I found it dynamically works fine and very fast and easy to implement. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Compatibility with RTL (Arabic) Language, not fully completed. I wish the Arabic language can be considered as a primary task in future developments. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** If you want fast, reliable and full of features editor, you have to try CKeditor. It's very easy to implement to your web pages plus the recurrent updates from the developers. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Editing my website pages on the fly, without a need to manually edit them using 3rd party editor. Also, I am using it to build my own CMS systems for my personal use and also for clients. ### 33. The best WYSIWYG **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** It offers practically everything you need to simplify content creation, the documentation is very good, and the API is very clear. It supports a large number of additional plugins, manages HTML rendering quite well, and allows image uploads. It is also very easy to customize a plugin or write your own. Another advantage is that it is ready for mobile devices. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Sometimes the original format is lost and it becomes somewhat annoying. It is not the ideal tool for developing user interfaces. The appearance may seem somewhat outdated compared to other more modern editors. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** It is the perfect visual editor for any content editor or for the web developer who needs ease of use and great potential for plugins. Use the documentation, it's well worth it. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** Anyone can create content for their websites thanks to a visual editor like CKEditor. The main advantage is to make it easier for the end user to create content without needing to know HTML. ### 34. CKEditor for Ruby on Rails Application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anurag A. | Incoming Software Development Engineer 2 at Microsoft., Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Customization and also ease of usability for the user. Regular updates and community support. A lot of features for the user. External plugin support. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Improper documentation of the features. Have to rely on the StackOverflow for functionality discovery. Eg - I was working on manually enabling/disabling actions in the toolbar, but couldn't find any proper documentation for that. So it was kind of a deal breaker for me in one of the projects. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** Use it, it is very easy to set up and also it has most of the features that you can expect from an editor. However, it might take some time to customize it. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1 - User can publish articles to my website. It was very easy to use and setup. I was able to add and make it work in my application within a day. 2 - In another application, I used it to add compose email functionality in my company's application. ### 35. CKEditor for CMS Application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renu R. | Graduate Student Researcher, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Easy bootstrapping. External Plugin Support. Easy Customization. Cross-browser support. It doesn't take much time to load on the browser. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Missing documentation in some areas. I was working on CKEditor and I added a plugin which showed the drop-down items fetched from the server. The values of the dropdown were dynamic and depend on another checkbox. I couldn't find the proper documentation for this. I had to search on StackOverflow to resolve this issue. Another issue I faced was to enable/disable some items in toolbar using JavaScript. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** Definitely, use CKEditor. It's easy to set up, easy to use, have loads of features and have responsive design. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used CKEditor to provide the functionality to type the Emails for Alert Notifications and another use was to write the text templates that were used in designing the letters. ### 36. great editor. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jason j. | IT Support Specialist, Computer Hardware, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** I have been using your editor and I like it very much, easy to install and use. I would like to see more fonts and more colors in the basic colors. Highly recommended. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** My only regret is that the source code editor "HTML view" does not syntax highlighting, which makes it difficult for me to use this with preference from other editors for me or for my advanced users. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** At first, it takes some time to resolve the configuration, that is, if you have specific needs. Otherwise, you are ready to go in a few steps. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** since we used it as a code editor it has saved us a lot of work. ### 37. Awesome WISYWYG editor! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** CKEditor gave me 4 options to choose from- Inline, classic, balloon, and document. So, when I'm editing and adding to my department's research page, I get to pick from 4 options according to which one fits the section best. We used to completely dependent on Wordpress earlier, but CKEditor has really improved the experience of web development and adding new research papers and reports to our website. My favorite part is the fact that their code is available online on GitHub so one can create one's own custom text editor and ensure that it's secure. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Since it's still an upcoming editor, there's still development and enhancements going on. There aren't as many answers and experts on this editor than other popular editors out there. Also, even though the editor can be customized, it still takes some scripting and programming knowledge to do that. It's not just a simple drag and drop level of customization. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** CKEditor is best when you know how to get the most out of it. Customize it to the point of your comfort and optimization. It will take a short while to get you started, but this editor is very user-friendly and useful in the long run. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use the CKEditor 5 to add new articles and updates about ongoing research to our website. It helps our readers stay up to date on the ongoing activities. It's cheaper and more customizable than wordpress. ### 38. Easy to Use WYYSIWYG Editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristy T. | Assistant Director, SRB & Marketing, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** It is very straightforward and easy to use. You can switch from Rich Text Editor to Plain Text Editor. For someone who has background in HTML, I found this very useful because if something in Rich Text doesn't look the way I want it to look, I can use the Plain Text Editor to look at my code. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** As someone who has background in web design, I am used to just writing everything straight to the HTML file, so the rich text format sometimes gets on my nerves when it doesn't capture the look that I really want. But I think this is mostly because I am not as used to Rich Text Format as I am to Plain Text. So again, I really appreciate the Plain Text Option they have. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** It's very easy to use if you are just writing content directly to a web page. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CKEditor in Drupal for our website. ### 39. Web Developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michella L. | Graphic Web Designer, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** It's user- friendly and straightforward. Great for a web developers. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** There's not much I don't like about CKEditor. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** Continue to make the editor user- friendly, and easier to customize. The layout is clean and has a wide variety of browser compatibility. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's very easy to use if you are just writing content directly to a web page. ### 40. Free* and collaborative web page rich text editor **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** The built-in spell checker functionality is extremely useful! It's a small detail, but it's one I appreciate quite often. The real-time collaborative editing is one of the primary advantages to using CKEditor. It's available for free, but does come with ads not unlike many other free web-content generation services. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I don't think CKEditor 5 supports Internet Explorer 11 yet, but it is compatible with Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** It takes some time to overcome the learning curve. It's worth getting some time on it on the free version before buying for this reason alone. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is basically Google Docs for web page editing. A big plus in my book is that CKEditor is available under open source licenses. **Official Response from Gökçe Tosun:** > Thank you for the review and glad you enjoyed CKEditor 5. However, there is some misinformation here that we would like to clarify. CKEditor 5 is available under GPL 2+ Open Source license and does not have ads. This could be due to CMS/Framework it is integrated into or the 3rd party plugins you're using. (for e.g WProofReader) CKEditor 5 Collaboration features are unfortunately not available for free. They, including real-time collaborative editing, are premium features. However, there is a 30-day free trial. We also do our best to help out startups and fellow Open Source projects and have special programs for them. Please contact us, if you'd like to purchase CKEditor 5 Collaboration features and also we would love to hear about your use case. ### 41. We use it in our product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Integrating CKEditor into our product was a breeze. Probably took 0.01% of the time it'd take for us to implement it ourselves. It has tons of features out of the box and is easy to customize. Works with HTML great. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** Every now and then, CKEditor has bugs and it usually takes us a while to pinpoint the problem, and even longer for CKEditor's support to get back to us after we file bugs with them. **Recommendations to others considering CKEditor:** Use CKEditor, don't build your own! Almost every feature you'd want CKEditor has. **What problems is CKEditor solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use CKEditor to allow our customers to edit their email HTML templates. Customers love it! They have great control over their emails! ### 42. CKEditor is a good WISYWYG option! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2018 **What do you like best about CKEditor?** Classic editor is what most users should be learning off of to associate with a rich text editor — they have a great toolbar with an editing area placed in a specific position on the page, usually as a part of a form that you use to submit some content to your company's server. **What do you dislike about CKEditor?** I'm not a fan of the toolbar. It's visible now, but it's always visible when the user scrolls the page down. And it gets annoying. The editor content is now placed inline in the page (without the surrounding