# cjwirth/RichEditorView

RichEditorView is a simple, modular, drop-in UIView subclass for Rich Text Editing.

Repository: https://github.com/cjwirth/RichEditorView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/richeditorview
Language: Swift
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-12-01T13:12:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4168, "days_push": 1006, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1893, forks 447 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:50.636296+00:00)

## What it is
RichEditorView is a drop-in Swift UIView subclass providing WYSIWYG rich text editing on iOS, with a modular toolbar for formatting like bold, lists, headings, images, and links. It is built on the deprecated UIWebView and has been archived by its author, who recommends checking actively maintained forks instead.

## Use cases
- embed a rich text editor in an iOS app
- let users format text with bold, italic, and headings
- add a WYSIWYG editor view with toolbar to a UIView
- insert images and links into user-composed content
- get and set HTML content from a mobile text editor

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy iOS 8-12 app already using it
- you need a simple drop-in rich text view and accept UIWebView limitations
- you want a lightweight Swift component without heavy dependencies

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new iOS project (UIWebView is deprecated and rejected by App Store review)
- you need WKWebView-based or SwiftUI rich text editing
- you need ongoing maintenance, bug fixes, or modern iOS support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, editor, templating
- domain: mobile-development, text-editors
- platform: -
- tags: rich-text-editing, uikit, wysiwyg, cocoapods, carthage, uiwebview, archived, ios, swift, mobile

## Member repositories
- cjwirth/RichEditorView (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.636296+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:12:55.432564+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cjwirth/RichEditorView (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:50.636296+00:00, sha 1230f793a8f7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.