diff --git a/.changeset/fix-react-strictmode-double-oncreate.md b/.changeset/fix-react-strictmode-double-oncreate.md
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index 0000000000..9ae0f8a96e
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+++ b/.changeset/fix-react-strictmode-double-oncreate.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@tiptap/react': patch
+---
+
+Fix `useEditor` firing `onCreate` twice for two different `Editor` instances under React StrictMode. `useEditor`'s `useState` lazy initializer is invoked twice by StrictMode for a single mount, and both calls construct (and auto-mount) a real `Editor`, so both used to schedule their own `create` event. `onCreate` is now buffered until the owning instance is confirmed mounted (i.e. its render effect actually runs) and only forwarded then - an instance whose effect never runs (the discarded one) never forwards it. Verified against React 18.2.0, 18.3.1, and 19.1.0.
diff --git a/packages/react/src/useEditor.spec.ts b/packages/react/src/useEditor.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..78e4dd7940
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react/src/useEditor.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,321 @@
+import { Document } from '@tiptap/extension-document'
+import { Paragraph } from '@tiptap/extension-paragraph'
+import { Text } from '@tiptap/extension-text'
+import { render } from '@testing-library/react'
+import React from 'react'
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+
+import type { Editor } from '@tiptap/core'
+import { useEditor } from './useEditor.js'
+
+function flushTimers(ms: number) {
+  return new Promise<void>(resolve => {
+    setTimeout(resolve, ms)
+  })
+}
+
+describe('useEditor', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    document.body.innerHTML = ''
+  })
+
+  it('does not fire onCreate more than once for a single mount under StrictMode', async () => {
+    // onBeforeCreate legitimately still fires for both the kept and the
+    // discarded StrictMode-duplicate instance (it fires synchronously as
+    // part of construction itself, before there's any way to know which one
+    // survives). onCreate is what's actually fixed here: it's deferred until
+    // the instance is confirmed mounted, so only the kept instance's onCreate
+    // is ever forwarded to the user's callback.
+    let beforeCreateCount = 0
+    let createCount = 0
+    const createdEditors = new Set<Editor>()
+    let latestEditor: Editor | null = null
+
+    function TestComponent() {
+      const editor = useEditor({
+        extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+        onBeforeCreate: () => {
+          beforeCreateCount += 1
+        },
+        onCreate: ({ editor: createdEditor }) => {
+          createCount += 1
+          createdEditors.add(createdEditor)
+        },
+      })
+
+      latestEditor = editor
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    const { unmount } = render(
+      React.createElement(React.StrictMode, null, React.createElement(TestComponent)),
+    )
+
+    // The editor's own 'create' event fires via an internal setTimeout(0);
+    // give it real wall-clock time to flush.
+    await flushTimers(100)
+
+    expect(beforeCreateCount).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1)
+    expect(createCount).toBe(1)
+    expect(createdEditors.size).toBe(1)
+    expect(latestEditor?.isDestroyed).toBe(false)
+
+    unmount()
+  })
+
+  it('still fires onCreate exactly once when mounted without StrictMode', async () => {
+    let createCount = 0
+
+    function TestComponent() {
+      useEditor({
+        extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+        onCreate: () => {
+          createCount += 1
+        },
+      })
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    const { unmount } = render(React.createElement(TestComponent))
+
+    await flushTimers(100)
+
+    expect(createCount).toBe(1)
+
+    unmount()
+  })
+
+  it('keeps two sibling editors independent under StrictMode', async () => {
+    let createCountA = 0
+    let createCountB = 0
+    const createdA = new Set<Editor>()
+    const createdB = new Set<Editor>()
+    let editorA: Editor | null = null
+    let editorB: Editor | null = null
+
+    function ComponentA() {
+      const editor = useEditor({
+        extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+        onCreate: ({ editor: e }) => {
+          createCountA += 1
+          createdA.add(e)
+        },
+      })
+
+      editorA = editor
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    function ComponentB() {
+      const editor = useEditor({
+        extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+        onCreate: ({ editor: e }) => {
+          createCountB += 1
+          createdB.add(e)
+        },
+      })
+
+      editorB = editor
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    const { unmount } = render(
+      React.createElement(
+        React.StrictMode,
+        null,
+        React.createElement(ComponentA),
+        React.createElement(ComponentB),
+      ),
+    )
+
+    await flushTimers(100)
+
+    expect(createCountA).toBe(1)
+    expect(createCountB).toBe(1)
+    expect(createdA.size).toBe(1)
+    expect(createdB.size).toBe(1)
+    expect(editorA?.isDestroyed).toBe(false)
+    expect(editorB?.isDestroyed).toBe(false)
+    expect(editorA).not.toBe(editorB)
+
+    unmount()
+  })
+
+  it('does not throw and still creates exactly one editor when immediatelyRender is false under StrictMode', async () => {
+    let createCount = 0
+
+    function TestComponent() {
+      useEditor({
+        immediatelyRender: false,
+        extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+        onCreate: () => {
+          createCount += 1
+        },
+      })
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    let unmount: () => void = () => {}
+
+    expect(() => {
+      ;({ unmount } = render(
+        React.createElement(React.StrictMode, null, React.createElement(TestComponent)),
+      ))
+    }).not.toThrow()
+
+    await flushTimers(100)
+
+    expect(createCount).toBe(1)
+
+    unmount()
+  })
+
+  it('handles a full unmount and remount cycle correctly under StrictMode', async () => {
+    // Tracks *deltas* around the real show/hide toggle, rather than an
+    // absolute destroyCount, so this stays correct regardless of exactly
+    // when the guard's ref is (re-)initialized across mounts.
+    let createCount = 0
+    let destroyCount = 0
+
+    function TestComponent() {
+      useEditor({
+        extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+        onCreate: () => {
+          createCount += 1
+        },
+        onDestroy: () => {
+          destroyCount += 1
+        },
+      })
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    function Wrapper({ show }: { show: boolean }) {
+      return show ? React.createElement(TestComponent) : null
+    }
+
+    const { rerender, unmount } = render(
+      React.createElement(React.StrictMode, null, React.createElement(Wrapper, { show: true })),
+    )
+
+    await flushTimers(100)
+    expect(createCount).toBe(1)
+
+    const destroyCountBeforeHiding = destroyCount
+
+    rerender(
+      React.createElement(React.StrictMode, null, React.createElement(Wrapper, { show: false })),
+    )
+    await flushTimers(100)
+    expect(destroyCount - destroyCountBeforeHiding).toBe(1)
+
+    rerender(
+      React.createElement(React.StrictMode, null, React.createElement(Wrapper, { show: true })),
+    )
+    await flushTimers(100)
+    expect(createCount).toBe(2)
+
+    unmount()
+  })
+
+  it('does not crash the render if a user-provided onCreate throws', async () => {
+    function TestComponent() {
+      useEditor({
+        extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+        onCreate: () => {
+          throw new Error('boom from onCreate')
+        },
+      })
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    const caughtAsync: unknown[] = []
+    const onUnhandled = (error: unknown) => {
+      caughtAsync.push(error)
+    }
+
+    process.on('uncaughtException', onUnhandled)
+
+    let unmount: () => void = () => {}
+
+    try {
+      expect(() => {
+        ;({ unmount } = render(
+          React.createElement(React.StrictMode, null, React.createElement(TestComponent)),
+        ))
+      }).not.toThrow()
+
+      await flushTimers(500)
+    } finally {
+      unmount()
+      await flushTimers(100)
+      process.off('uncaughtException', onUnhandled)
+    }
+
+    // A throwing onCreate should surface asynchronously exactly once (same
+    // as it would have before this fix, since it fires from a 0ms timer or
+    // a React effect, never synchronously inside the render call itself) -
+    // not crash the render.
+    expect(caughtAsync.length).toBe(1)
+    expect(caughtAsync[0]).toBeInstanceOf(Error)
+    expect((caughtAsync[0] as Error).message).toBe('boom from onCreate')
+  })
+
+  it('fires onCreate exactly once per deps change under StrictMode, including the first mount', async () => {
+    let createCount = 0
+
+    function TestComponent({ depKey }: { depKey: string }) {
+      useEditor(
+        {
+          extensions: [Document, Text, Paragraph],
+          onCreate: () => {
+            createCount += 1
+          },
+        },
+        [depKey],
+      )
+
+      return null
+    }
+
+    const { rerender, unmount } = render(
+      React.createElement(
+        React.StrictMode,
+        null,
+        React.createElement(TestComponent, { depKey: 'a' }),
+      ),
+    )
+
+    await flushTimers(200)
+    expect(createCount).toBe(1)
+
+    rerender(
+      React.createElement(
+        React.StrictMode,
+        null,
+        React.createElement(TestComponent, { depKey: 'b' }),
+      ),
+    )
+    await flushTimers(200)
+    expect(createCount).toBe(2)
+
+    rerender(
+      React.createElement(
+        React.StrictMode,
+        null,
+        React.createElement(TestComponent, { depKey: 'c' }),
+      ),
+    )
+    await flushTimers(200)
+    expect(createCount).toBe(3)
+
+    unmount()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/react/src/useEditor.ts b/packages/react/src/useEditor.ts
index 2a13a54cf1..76ba1eab8c 100644
--- a/packages/react/src/useEditor.ts
+++ b/packages/react/src/useEditor.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { type EditorOptions, Editor } from '@tiptap/core'
+import { type EditorEvents, type EditorOptions, Editor } from '@tiptap/core'
 import type { DependencyList, MutableRefObject } from 'react'
 import { useDebugValue, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 import { useSyncExternalStore } from 'use-sync-external-store/shim/index.js'
@@ -59,6 +59,19 @@ class EditorInstanceManager {
    */
   private isComponentMounted = false
 
+  /**
+   * Under React 18/19 StrictMode, the `useState` lazy initializer that
+   * constructs this manager is invoked twice for a single logical mount; the
+   * discarded instance's `Editor` still auto-mounts and schedules its own
+   * `create` event via a 0ms timer. Rather than trying to prevent that
+   * second construction (StrictMode's exact hook-sharing behavior differs
+   * across React versions, so that's not reliable), buffer a `create` event
+   * that fires before this instance is confirmed mounted, and only forward
+   * it once `onRender`'s effect actually runs. An instance whose effect
+   * never runs (i.e. the discarded one) simply never forwards it.
+   */
+  private pendingOnCreateEvent: EditorEvents['create'] | null = null
+
   /**
    * The most recent dependencies array.
    */
@@ -124,7 +137,16 @@ class EditorInstanceManager {
       // Always call the most recent version of the callback function by default
       onBeforeCreate: (...args) => this.options.current.onBeforeCreate?.(...args),
       onBlur: (...args) => this.options.current.onBlur?.(...args),
-      onCreate: (...args) => this.options.current.onCreate?.(...args),
+      onCreate: props => {
+        if (this.isComponentMounted) {
+          this.options.current.onCreate?.(props)
+        } else {
+          // Not confirmed mounted yet - this may be a StrictMode duplicate
+          // whose onRender effect will never run. Buffer it; onRender flushes
+          // this if the instance turns out to be the real one.
+          this.pendingOnCreateEvent = props
+        }
+      },
       onDestroy: (...args) => this.options.current.onDestroy?.(...args),
       onFocus: (...args) => this.options.current.onFocus?.(...args),
       onSelectionUpdate: (...args) => this.options.current.onSelectionUpdate?.(...args),
@@ -222,6 +244,12 @@ class EditorInstanceManager {
       // Cleanup any scheduled destructions, since we are currently rendering
       clearTimeout(this.scheduledDestructionTimeout)
 
+      if (this.pendingOnCreateEvent) {
+        const event = this.pendingOnCreateEvent
+        this.pendingOnCreateEvent = null
+        this.options.current.onCreate?.(event)
+      }
+
       if (this.editor && !this.editor.isDestroyed && deps.length === 0) {
         // if the editor does exist & deps are empty, we don't need to re-initialize the editor generally
         if (!EditorInstanceManager.compareOptions(this.options.current, this.editor.options)) {