Tiptap
Developer toolkit for building collaborative apps.
Tiptap is a suite of open source content editing and real-time collaboration tools for developers building apps like Notion or Google Docs. It’s used by thousands of businesses worldwide, including LinkedIn, GitLab, Axios, and Anthropic.
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Active Founders
Philip Isik, Founder
Philip is the co-founder and co-CEO of Tiptap, where he is responsible for the company's strategy, sales, and business development. With a decade of industry experience, Philip's passion for creating intuitive and transformative digital experiences led him to grow Tiptap from an open source side project at his digital consultancy into a venture-backed startup.
Sven Adlung, Founder
Sven is a co-founder and lead frontend developer at Tiptap, where he brings over twenty years of experience in app and web development. Specializing in frontend development, he focuses on the Tiptap Editor and its cloud services.
Patrick Baber, Founder
Patrick is the co-founder and DevOps of Tiptap, which he started with five other founders in 2022. With more than a decade of experience, he is responsible for the IT infrastructure, defines the software architecture, and drives the mission to simplify the development of collaborative apps. Originally from East Germany, Patrick earned a degree in business economics.
Nick Hirche, Founder
Nick is a co-founder and lead UX/UI designer at Tiptap, where he is responsible for the visual appearance and product conception. With more than a decade of experience in the industry, he can quickly grasp complex problems and turn them into new product ideas. These are garnished with amazing design.
Timo Isik, Founder
Timo is a co-founder and lead backend developer at Tiptap where he mainly works on collaboration and cloud services. He holds over ten years of diverse experience in software engineering and specializes in the backend part of applications.
Sebastian Schrama, Founder
Sebastian is the co-founder and co-CEO of Tiptap. With over a decade of experience in the freelance and entrepreneurial world, he has honed his skills in finance and operations. His diverse expertise has shaped his role at Tiptap, where he navigates the company’s financial health and operational efficiency.
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Tiptap is a suite of open source content editing and real-time collaboration tools for developers building apps like Notion or Google Docs. It’s used by thousands of businesses worldwide, including GitLab, Axios, and Substack.
🤔 The Problem
Extensive content editing interfaces and real-time collaboration are a key feature of most apps to deliver value to their users, such as Notion, Miro, Figma, and Google Docs.
While the users of these apps expect a best-in-class editing and collaboration experience, it's super painful and complex to develop. As developers, we can testify to this: Entire IT departments despair of these tasks.
💡 The Solution
With Tiptap Editor, you can build apps like Notion in no time. The headless approach gives you complete freedom to build your editor experience the way you want. Tiptap Editor comes with a ton of powerful extensions to help you elevate your app beyond the ordinary. Better yet, Tiptap Editor is free and open-source.
Thanks to Tiptap's cloud services, you can easily add more sophisticated features like collaborative editing, real-time sync, or soon AI editor capabilities to your app in less than a minute. Tiptap's cloud services are available for fast-growing startups and as an on-premises solution for enterprises.
🚀 Who is it for?
Tiptap is for developers and product teams who need to integrate rich text editors into their apps, especially those who value customization, ease of use, and real-time collaboration. Tiptap toolkits and cloud services significantly reduce development time, enabling faster time-to-market and increased profitability for product teams.
Tiptap is already used by thousands of businesses worldwide, including:
With over 1.8 million npm downloads per month, Tiptap is one of the top 5 most popular editor frameworks in the world and is strongly supported by a huge developer community:
- 26k+ community members
- 20k+ GitHub stars
- 1.8k forks
- 5k+ commits
- 200+ contributors
🎉 Meet the Tiptap team
We're six co-founders with over a decade of digital consultancy experience, transforming our struggle with building custom editor interfaces into a solution. Since launching Tiptap in 2019, we've been dedicated to scaling up and fully committed since 2022. As passionate designers and developers, we're proud to craft Tiptap's core ourselves.
❤️ Our ask
We invite you to explore Tiptap's capabilities in your app, contribute to its open source development, and join our welcoming community.
- Star our GitHub repository: https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap
- Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tiptap_editor
- and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tiptapdev/
If you have any questions, or would like to use Tiptap in your app, write us at humans@tiptap.dev
Yours
Nick, Patrick, Philip, Sebastian, Sven and Timo