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Welcome to RichTextKit!

Jan 16, 2025  · 

RichTextKit is an SDK that aims to make it easier to add Rich Text-based features in Swift & SwiftUI.

RichTextKit makes the UIKit UITextView and the AppKit NSTextView behave more alike, and adds a lot of additional capabilities to both components.

RichTextKit also adds a SwiftUI RichTextEditor and a read-only RichTextView, which make it easy to show and edit rich text in SwiftUI-based apps.

RichTextKit is currently using the old @ObservableObject attribute, which isn’t great for performance reasons. This is why a complete rewrite is being planned.

This upcoming rewrite will change many things, which is why RichTextKit 2 won’t be compatible with RichTextKit 1, although many of the public APIs will be.

Make sure to check out the GitHub repository to follow this work, and reach out if you want to be a part of it. There’s no timeline for this project, so it may take time to both get started and finish it.

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