BlockNote Reviews in 2025

Audience

Individuals wanting a tool to integrate a customizable, collaborative rich text editor into their applications, providing a block-based structure and real-time editing capabilities

About BlockNote

BlockNote is an open source, block-based rich text editor for React that offers a polished, Notion-style user experience with minimal setup. It comes with built-in UI components like menus and toolbars, which are fully customizable. It supports drag-and-drop functionality, allowing users to organize content into blocks that can be nested or rearranged. Developers can extend the editor with custom blocks, schemas, and plugins, benefiting from first-class TypeScript support for type safety and autocompletion. BlockNote enables real-time collaboration using Yjs, with support for providers like Liveblocks and PartyKit, allowing multiple users to edit documents simultaneously. It also supports theming, markdown, and HTML conversion, and can be used with vanilla JavaScript for non-React projects. Built on top of ProseMirror and TipTap, BlockNote simplifies the process of adding a rich text editor to applications, eliminating the need to build interface elements from scratch.

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Starting Price:

$90 per month

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API:

Yes, BlockNote offers API access

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