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ARCHITECTURE · COMPARISON
Nabu and the others
If you write Svelte and need a rich editor, these are your real options. Where Nabu is different, where the others are clearly ahead, and how we checked.
Your real options in Svelte
Where Nabu is different
- Svelte 5 nativeNo wrapper around another engine. Blocks are Svelte components, state is runes.
- The CRDT is the documentNot a binding that syncs another model: the Loro tree and text are what you edit.
- Local-first in the boxIndexedDB, merge across tabs, backup and quarantine, an asset store. Elsewhere: y-indexeddb and your own wiring.
- Nothing paidMIT. No cloud tier, no GPL packages.
- Undo that puts the caret backEven after remote edits, on stable Loro cursors.
Where the others are clearly ahead
- MaturityYears in production, tens of thousands of stars. Nabu: beta, one author, first alpha in March 2026.
- TablesTiptap, ProseMirror, Lexical, BlockNote, Plate have them. Nabu has none.
- Network collaborationReady-made servers and providers. Nabu gives you the CRDT bytes; you write the transport.
- Mobile and browsersYears of Android fixes elsewhere. Nabu is tested in Chromium only.
- WeightLoro’s WebAssembly is 1.2 MB gzipped. Yjs is 28 KB.
- ReachNabu is Svelte only. Others serve React, Vue and plain JS.
Side by side
| ProseMirror | Tiptap | Lexical | Slate / Plate | BlockNote | Editor.js | Quill | Milkdown | Svedit | Nabu | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Svelte | adapter | guide · wrapper | wrapper | none | none | vanilla JS | vanilla JS | none | native | native |
| Contenteditable | one | one | one | one | one | one per block | one | one | one | one |
| Collaboration | OT; Yjs/Loro bindings | Yjs; paid cloud | Yjs | none; Yjs bindings | Yjs, free | none (planned) | none built in | Yjs | not stated | Loro inside; BYO transport |
| Offline storage | none built in | y-indexeddb guide | via provider | Plate: IndexedDB provider | y-indexeddb | none found | none found | not stated | not stated | built in |
| Tables | yes | yes | yes | via Plate | yes | separate tool | third-party | GFM preset | no | no |
| Mobile | years of fixes | not stated | active fixes | newer, "more bugs" | experimental | not stated | phones supported | not stated | experimental | untested |
| Licence | MIT | MIT + paid platform | MIT | MIT + paid add-on | MPL-2.0 + GPL/commercial | Apache-2.0 | BSD-3-Clause | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Version | 1.42 (2016) | 3.32 (2020) | 0.52 | 0.147 beta | 0.56 | 2.31 (2015) | 2.0 (2012) | 7.23 (2021) | 0.15 alpha | 0.1 beta (2026) |
So, which one?
- Tiptapif you need tables, network collaboration and a large ecosystem of extensions today, and a paid cloud for collaboration is fine.
- ProseKitif you want ProseMirror’s maturity with a Svelte adapter and room to build your own UI.
- Nabuif you build in Svelte 5, your documents must survive crashes, tabs and offline without a server, and you can ship a beta.