Froala Editor vs Pell

Froala Editor is a JavaScript WYSIWYG HTML editor for adding rich-text editing to applications. It supports paragraph formats, lists, custom paragraph styles, quotes, and special characters, alongside image uploads and editing, video embeds, file uploads, and server-side file management. Froala says it supports more than 15 frameworks and technology stacks, with integration guides for JavaScript, React, Django, Vue, WordPress, and others. The editor runs inside the customer’s application, so editor content stays on the customer’s infrastructure. Froala says it sanitizes content, filters malicious scripts, validates URLs, and supports strict Content Security Policy configurations from version 5.2. Plans list AI Assist, version history, comments, and Markdown support. A 30-day trial is available, but there is no free plan. Professional is $60 a month billed annually and covers one product and three domains; Enterprise is $117 a month billed annually with unlimited products and domains. Perpetual options cost 2159.00 USD and $4,199, paid once, respectively.

Pell is a free, self-hosted WYSIWYG text editor for web pages. It is written in pure JavaScript using ES6 and has no dependencies. The package is listed at 1.38 kB minified and gzipped, or 3.54 kB minified. Built-in actions cover bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, headings, paragraphs, quotes, lists, code, horizontal rules, links, and images. You can add custom actions and decide which controls appear and in what order. Styling can be changed through Pell’s Sass file or by overriding CSS. The onChange callback provides the editor’s HTML output, and the project demonstrates converting that HTML to Markdown with Turndown. Installation is documented through npm or by including a browser script and stylesheet. React and Vue examples are available. Listed browser support includes IE 9+, Chrome 5+, Firefox 4+, Safari 5+, and Opera 11.6+. Pell uses the MIT license.