# nnhubbard/ZSSRichTextEditor

A beautiful rich text WYSIWYG editor for iOS with a syntax highlighted source view

Repository: https://github.com/nnhubbard/ZSSRichTextEditor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zssrichtexteditor
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-09-07T17:08:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4598, "days_push": 1821, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3782, forks 589 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:18.482610+00:00)

## What it is
A rich text WYSIWYG editor library for iOS written in Objective-C, providing a toolbar-based editing experience with a syntax-highlighted HTML source view. It is used by subclassing ZSSRichTextEditor and offers APIs for getting, setting, and inserting HTML content.

## Use cases
- embed a rich text editor in an iOS app
- let users write formatted HTML content on iPhone or iPad
- edit HTML with a WYSIWYG toolbar and source view
- build a blog post composer with bold, headings, links, and images
- customize a mobile rich text editor's toolbar and colors
- insert images and links into formatted text programmatically

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made WYSIWYG rich text editor in an iOS app
- you want both visual editing and an HTML source view with syntax highlighting
- you need customizable toolbar items, colors, and placeholders

## When to avoid
- you are building for Android or cross-platform targets
- you need a Swift-native or SwiftUI editor
- you require actively maintained software with recent updates
- you only need plain text input without formatting

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, ui-components, templating
- domain: mobile-development, text-editors, web-development
- platform: -
- tags: wysiwyg, rich-text, html-editor, objective-c, syntax-highlighting, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- nnhubbard/ZSSRichTextEditor (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:18.482610+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 2026-08-29T18:27:44.048589+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nnhubbard/ZSSRichTextEditor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:18.482610+00:00, sha dfa2f6de4661)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.