Froala Editor vs ProseMirror

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.

ProseMirror is a toolkit for developers building rich-text editors on the web. It supports structured documents through a WYSIWYG-style interface while letting applications define document shape and content. Instead of treating a document as an HTML blob, it gives application code control over a custom data structure. Schemas and plugins provide ways to customize that structure and extend editor behavior. Four core modules handle the document model, editor state, view, and transformations; additional modules offer commands, key bindings, undo history, input macros, collaboration, and a basic schema. Multiple people can edit together in real time. Examples cover Markdown, image uploads, custom schemas, menus, code editors, footnotes, and track changes. ProseMirror is free, open source, and legally usable commercially; it can be self-hosted and is installed through npm. It works in recent Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Edge versions, as well as Internet Explorer 11. It is a modular toolkit rather than a ready-made editor component, and implementation generally involves a bundler.