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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.
Active Founders
Philip Isik
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Company Launches
Bidirectional Markdown Support for Tiptap
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Hi everyone, we’re the team behind Tiptap, the open source text editor framework used by thousands of developers to build rich text and AI-powered writing tools.

We just launched bidirectional Markdown support! You can now import Markdown into Tiptap and export your editor content back to Markdown, without losing structure or formatting.

The problem

Markdown is becoming the common language for AI and LLM-based workflows.
When you feed prompts, train models, or structure outputs, they often rely on Markdown. But most editors don’t handle it well. Converting between Markdown and rich text is lossy, inconsistent, and full of edge cases.

Developers who build AI tools, documentation platforms, or note-taking apps need a way to work natively with Markdown without giving up modern editing experiences.

How we’re solving it

With this release, Tiptap makes Markdown a native format. You can:

  • Parse Markdown content into Tiptap's ProseMirror-based JSON for editing,
  • Serialize your Tiptap content back to multiple variants of Markdown,
  • Use it client-side or server-side via the MarkdownManager,
  • Define custom Markdown syntax for your custom nodes and marks,

How to try it

  1. Install the Markdown package via @tiptap/markdown
  2. Either setup the MarkdownManager and directly parse and serialize it or import the Markdown extension and extend your editor instance with Markdown features
  3. Use the serialized and parsed content in your apps (for example parsing file contents or AI streams)

Why this matters

As AI tools grow, Markdown is quickly becoming the glue between humans and LLMs. Writers, developers, and apps need a format both people and models can read and write.

By making Markdown fully bidirectional, Tiptap bridges that gap, giving developers a foundation to build the next generation of editors, copilots, and AI-native content tools.

Call to action

If you’re building AI products or content tools that use Markdown, try it out and tell us how it fits into your stack.

Docs: https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/markdown/

You can reach us at humans@tiptap.dev or discuss on GitHub

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Tiptap
Founded:2022
Batch:Summer 2023
Team Size:15
Status:
Active
Location:Berlin, Germany
Primary Partner:Tom Blomfield