Reviewers largely see Tiptap as a flexible, developer-friendly editor that is easy to set up, extend, and tailor to custom branding and behavior. Users repeatedly praise its headless approach, plugin and node-view power, ProseMirror foundation, and solid support for rich text and collaborative editing. Founders of Mintlify and Liner Write say it helped them build editor experiences quickly, with Mintlify’s maker specifically praising real-time collaboration and Yjs support. The main criticism is weaker documentation and some confusing color-setting UI choices.
First, unlike many other products, Tiptap distinguishes between text color and background color with two separate icons. This approach has caused some confusion, as users often find it difficult to identify the correct icon for adjusting text color, leading to an inefficient and frustrating experience.
Second, I noticed that the design displayed on your official website does not match the actual product. The website showcases a different interface of the color settings than what is currently in use, which adds to the confusion and disappointment, as it does not accurately represent the product I am using.
I wish to know if there are plans for future updates to address these issues. Specifically, will the user interface be adjusted to make the color settings more intuitive?
Thanks for your feedback and sorry for the confusion about the website vs. demos/templates behavior! We would like to clarify a few things.
Tiptap is a headless text editor, meaning that we provide the underlying infrastructure and our users decide how to design and implement the UI, including how color tools are presented. The examples on our website showcase different ways Tiptap can be configured, rather than a fixed, pre-built UI.
However, we understand that expectations may differ based on what's shown in demos versus actual implementations. We're working on new template offerings, including an editor UI component library and a Google Docs-style template that will provide a more familiar color picking experience in the future.
Thanks again for your feedback, and please let us know if we can help :-)
Congrats on the launch, I love TipTap!
I reviewed a bunch of editing libraries before picking TipTap to build https://duckbook.ai
Things I love: nice high-level interfaces to customize behavior, can write my own plugins, interactive node views are powerful, and it's built on ProseMirror (so you can pop the hood to a lower level if needed).
Overall, I've been really happy with the choice, and building a slick Notion-like editor product has been fun :)
The ability to build a highly custom editor via TipTap's rich API, coupled with its strong React support, made it the clear choice for DocsHound. We also really appreciated the continuous updates and active development, which proved incredibly helpful during our dev cycle.
What's great
active development (2)React support (1)rich API (3)
Tiptap
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for your feedback and sorry for the confusion about the website vs. demos/templates behavior! We would like to clarify a few things.
Tiptap is a headless text editor, meaning that we provide the underlying infrastructure and our users decide how to design and implement the UI, including how color tools are presented. The examples on our website showcase different ways Tiptap can be configured, rather than a fixed, pre-built UI.
However, we understand that expectations may differ based on what's shown in demos versus actual implementations. We're working on new template offerings, including an editor UI component library and a Google Docs-style template that will provide a more familiar color picking experience in the future.
Thanks again for your feedback, and please let us know if we can help :-)