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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of HTML editors.

Please see the individual products’ articles for further information, comparison of text editors for information on text editors, and comparison of word processors or information on word processors, many of which have features to assist with writing HTML.

General information

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

Editor Developer Latest release License
Version Date
Amaya W3C, INRIA 11.4.4[1] Edit this on Wikidata 2012-01-18 W3C
Apache OpenOffice Apache Foundation 4.1.16[2] Edit this on Wikidata 2025-11-10 MPL/Apache-2.0/others
Aptana Studio Aptana 3.7.2 2018-07-30 GPL
Arachnophilia Paul Lutus [3] 5.5.2953[4] Edit this on Wikidata 2020-10-29 GPL-2.0-or-later
Atom GitHub 1.63.1[5] Edit this on Wikidata 2022-11-23 MIT
Bluefish Bluefish open source community 2.4.1[6] Edit this on Wikidata 2026-04-03 GPL-3.0-or-later
BlueGriffon Disruptive Innovations 3.1[7][8] Edit this on Wikidata 2017-12-04 MPL-2.0
Brackets Adobe 2.2.1[9] Edit this on Wikidata 2023-03-22 MIT
Claris Homepage Claris 3.0 1998 Proprietary
Coda Panic, Inc. Proprietary
Codelobster Codelobster Software 2.6.0[10] Edit this on Wikidata 2024-11-25 Proprietary
CoffeeCup HTML Editor CoffeeCup Software 17.0.882[11] Edit this on Wikidata 2022-04-08 Proprietary
Contribute Adobe Systems[a] CS6.5 (8) 2012-08-23 Proprietary
Dreamweaver Adobe Systems[a] 21.7[12] Edit this on Wikidata 2025-12 Proprietary
EZGenerator Image-Line 4.1 2012-12 Proprietary
Freeway Softpress 7.1.3 2016-05-05 Proprietary
GoLive Adobe Systems[b] 9.0 2007-06-01 Proprietary
Google Web Designer Google, Inc. 2018-07 Proprietary
KompoZer Kaze MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
LibreOffice The Document Foundation 26.2.4[13] Edit this on Wikidata 2026-06-05 MPL-2.0/Apache-2.0/others
Maqetta IBM 10.0.2[14] Edit this on Wikidata 2013-07-03 BSD-3-Clause or AFL-2.1
Microsoft Expression Web Microsoft 4.0.1460.0 2012-12-20 Proprietary
Microsoft Office FrontPage Microsoft 11.0.8174 2003-10-21 Proprietary
Microsoft FrontPage Express Microsoft 2.0 1997 Proprietary
Microsoft SharePoint Designer Microsoft 2007 2006-12-04 Proprietary
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft 1.124.2[15][16] Edit this on Wikidata 2026-06-12 MIT
Microsoft Visual Web Developer Microsoft 2008 Proprietary
Mozilla Composer Mozilla Foundation MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Nvu Linspire / Daniel Glazman 1.0[17] Edit this on Wikidata 2005-06-28 MPL-1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems (1999–2009)
Oracle Corporation (2010–2011)
3.3.0[18] Edit this on Wikidata 2011-01-17 LGPL-3.0[19]
oXygenXML Editor[c] Syncro Soft 28.1[20] Edit this on Wikidata 2026-03-18 Proprietary[d]
RocketCake Ambiera 5.1[21] Edit this on Wikidata 2023-03-15 Proprietary
SeaMonkey Composer SeaMonkey Council 2.53.23[22] Edit this on Wikidata 2025-12-31 MPL-2.0
TextMate Macromates 2.0.23[23] Edit this on Wikidata 2021-10-12 GPL-3.0-or-later
TOWeb Lauyan Software 10.06[24] Edit this on Wikidata 2022-02-07 Proprietary
WebStorm IDE JetBrains 2025.2.1[25] 2025-08-29 Proprietary
Editor Developer Latest release License
Version Date
  1. ^ a b Formerly Macromedia.
  2. ^ Formerly GoLive Systems.
  3. ^ Though the focus of this software is clearly XML, it covers so much of the HTML and XHTML features (all of them, basically) as well as generating HTML and XHTML based documents and sites (e.g. WebHelp, ePub, etc.) that leaving it out just appears a bit weird.
  4. ^ Some components under Apache-2.0.

See also

References

  1. ^ “Amaya 11.4.4”. 8 January 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  2. ^ “Announcing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16”. 10 November 2025. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  3. ^ “Paul Lutus”. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-16.
  4. ^ “Arachnophilia Revision History”.
  5. ^ “Release 1.63.1”. 23 November 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  6. ^ https://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ “Release 3.1”. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  8. ^ “Release 3.1”. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  9. ^ “Brackets 2.2.1 release”. 22 March 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  10. ^ “CodeLobster – News of free portable PHP IDE with support Drupal, Smarty, Twig, WordPress, Joomla, JQuery, CodeIgniter, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, CakePHP, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Symfony, Yii”. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025.
  11. ^ https://www.coffeecup.com/forums/html-editor/html-editor-change-logs/?page=3. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ “Feature summary | Dreamweaver”. 8 December 2025.
  13. ^ Italo Vignoli (5 June 2026). “The Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 26.2.4”. Retrieved 5 June 2026.
  14. ^ “Release 10.0.2”. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  15. ^ “Release 1.124.2”. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  16. ^ “Visual Studio Code 1.124”. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
  17. ^ “Nvu Download Page”. Archived from the original on 30 June 2005.
  18. ^ “3.3.0 – Release Notes”.
  19. ^ “Licenses”. Apache Software Foundation. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  20. ^ https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  21. ^ https://www.ambiera.com/forum.php?t=11604. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ^ “SeaMonkey 2.53.23 released”. 31 December 2025. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  23. ^ https://github.com/textmate/textmate/releases/tag/v2.0.23. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. ^ https://www.lauyan.com/en/toweb-updates.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  25. ^ “Download WebStorm: The Smartest JavaScript IDE by JetBrains”. JetBrains. Retrieved 2025-08-29.