WYSIWYG Editors Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)

Froala Editor runs on 57,223 live websites, 30.3% of the 189,196 sites we detect using WYSIWYG editors. Below, all 14 tools we detect in this category, ranked by live websites, with market share and 30-day adoption momentum.

Data updated Aug 19, 2026

  • A favicon of Froala Editor
    #1

    Froala Editor

    Froala is a commercial JavaScript WYSIWYG editor from Idera.

    Live websites57,223Market Share30.25%Top CountryUnited States
  • A favicon of TinyMCE
    #2

    TinyMCE

    TinyMCE is a rich-text editor component that developers embed in web applications so users can format content without writing HTML.

    Live websites52,357Market Share27.67%Top CountryUnited States
  • A favicon of CKEditor
    #3

    CKEditor

    CKEditor is an open-source JavaScript rich text editor from CKSource, shipped as the default editor in Drupal and embedded across a wide range of business applications.

    Live websites39,226Market Share20.73%Top CountryUnited States
  • A favicon of Quill

    Quill

    Quill is a free, open-source rich text editor built around a document model rather than contenteditable HTML.

    Live websites27,325Market Share14.44%Top CountryUnited States

WYSIWYG Editors Market Data

Adoption and 30-day momentum across 14 wysiwyg editors technologies, measured from our live detection crawl.

Biggest Movers

Net domains gained or lost in the last 30 days — 11 of 14 technologies moved. A further 1 tool is left out because we began detecting it inside this window, so we cannot tell growth from a first sighting.
Top gainers
Top losers

Expert Insight: WYSIWYG Editors Market Share & Momentum

The leading editor here is ranked on the markup it leaves behind, not on the editor loading.

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David ThomsonCTO, TechnologyChecker
Data as of 2026-08-19 · Reviewed 2026-09-09

Froala leads with about 30% of the 189,000 domains in this category, TinyMCE is at 28%, CKEditor 21% and Quill 14%. Four products hold 93% of the table, which is unusually clean for a category this size. The ranking is less clean: Froala and Quill are matched on CSS classes that survive in published content, while TinyMCE and CKEditor are matched on the editor script actually loading.

Market share

Four products, ninety-three percent, two different questions

Froala about 30%, TinyMCE 28%, CKEditor 21%, Quill 14%, then Ace and Trix near 3% each. Froala is matched on the fr-view and fr-box classes it wraps around content it produced, so a page authored in Froala keeps matching long after anyone last opened the editor. TinyMCE and CKEditor are matched on their script and their runtime global. The first counts output, the second counts the tool.

Movers

Everything large is slightly down on 30 days and flat on 90

TinyMCE is off about 1,142 domains over 30 days but only 78 over 90. Froala is off 534 over 30 days and up 119 over 90. Quill is the only one of the four up meaningfully across the quarter, about 577. N1ED added roughly 378 on a base of 568, two thirds of its footprint in a month, and should be read as a new signature rather than growth. Nothing here is moving fast enough to change the order.

Churn

Turnover of 4.0% is the median across the 81 categories we measure above 50,000 domains

TinyMCE shed roughly 2,597 domains over 30 days on a base of 52,000, about 5%. Froala shed 1,642 on a base of 57,000, about 2.9%. Dropped means the class or the script stopped appearing in our crawl, and for an editor embedded in a framework or a CMS theme that tracks the site being rebuilt rather than a licence ending. We can now put a number on that: of the domains that dropped Froala, CKEditor or Quill entirely, between 0.3% and 1.8% turned up on another editor in this table. Nobody swaps the editor under a live product without a migration.

Trend

The editor runs behind a login, so this table is a floor

A WYSIWYG editor loads in an admin screen a crawler never reaches. What we see is the subset that renders publicly: comment boxes, contact and support forms, front-end editing, and in Froala's case the published markup itself. Every count here is a lower bound on installs, and the gap is widest for the editors bundled inside commercial CMS and application platforms, which is most of them.

WYSIWYG Editors Overview
Active Domains189.2KRunning wysiwyg editors tech
Technologies14Tracked in this category
Net 30-Day Growth-1,8445,698 adopted · 7,542 dropped
Domain Index29.9MLive business domains crawled

Market Share

Froala Editor leads with 30.25% of active domains
  • A favicon of Froala EditorFroala Editor30.25%
  • A favicon of TinyMCETinyMCE27.67%
  • A favicon of CKEditorCKEditor20.73%
  • A favicon of QuillQuill14.44%
  • A favicon of AceAce3.33%
  • A favicon of TrixTrix2.98%
  • …Others0.6%
Live detection data · as of 2026-08-19

WYSIWYG Editors
FAQ.

What is WYSIWYG Editors software?

WYSIWYG Editors covers the tools a site can load or configure to handle this part of its stack. We detect one of the 14 wysiwyg editors tools in this category on 189,196 live sites. A detection means we found the technology on the site, which is not the same as a paid account.

What are the most popular wysiwyg editors platforms?

Across 189,196 detected sites, the most widely found wysiwyg editors tools are: Froala Editor (30.25% share, 57,223 sites), TinyMCE (27.67% share, 52,357 sites), CKEditor (20.73% share, 39,226 sites). Others we see regularly include Quill and Ace.

Which wysiwyg editors tool has the largest market share?

Froala Editor is the most widely detected wysiwyg editors tool at 30.25% share, on 57,223 sites. The largest share of those sites belongs to Government Administration companies, and to businesses in the 1-10 employee band.

Which industries use wysiwyg editors software the most?

The industries with the most detected sites in this category are Retail, Government Administration, IT Services and IT Consulting, Real Estate, Software Development. Industry mix follows where these tools get installed, so a category carried by website builders or agency templates will lean toward the verticals those platforms serve rather than the vendor's target buyer.

Which countries have the highest adoption of wysiwyg editors tools?

We detect the most wysiwyg editors sites in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Brazil, France. Country here is the company's registered location in our enriched data rather than where the site is served from, so read it as a ranking of markets rather than a measure of any single one.

How do I choose the right wysiwyg editors platform?

Start from your own size, industry and primary use case rather than from share. Froala Editor, TinyMCE and CKEditor are the three we detect most often in this category, which tells you what is common, not what fits you. Compare their integrations, pricing tiers and support commitments against the workflow you actually run, and check each vendor's own documentation for current capabilities.

How many companies use wysiwyg editors software?

TechnologyChecker.io detects wysiwyg editors tools on 189,196 live sites. That is a count of sites carrying the technology, not a count of paying customers, and a site running two tools in this category is counted under each. We crawl 2 billion+ URLs across 29.9M live business domains each sweep.

What is the source of this data?

TechnologyChecker.io's web crawling and technology detection platform. We've logged 2.12 billion total detections over 20+ years, covering 40,000+ technologies across the 29.9M live business domains we successfully crawl each sweep. Detection methods include JavaScript analysis, HTTP headers, HTML patterns, DNS records, and certificate transparency logs.