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Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn look
Excalidraw's sketchy rendering is not decoration. Diagrams that look provisional invite comment, where a crisp vector diagram signals a decision already made, so it is unusually good at the early part of a design conversation.
Fast, collaborative, AI-assisted open source code editor
Zed is a free, open source code editor written in Rust and built by Zed Industries, the company founded by the creators of the Atom editor. It targets developers who feel mainstream JavaScript-based editors waste the performance of modern hardware, pairing GPU-accelerated rendering with a local-first architecture that keeps files on disk.
No-code spreadsheet interface over your own database
NocoDB is a no-code database platform with a spreadsheet interface that connects to the operator's own Postgres or MySQL database or runs on its hosted database at million-row scale.
Infinite canvas SDK for building whiteboard apps in React
tldraw is an infinite-canvas SDK that gives any React app a whiteboard with drawing, shapes, rich text, multiplayer sync, and a runtime API for custom tools.
Headless open-source rich-text editor framework for the web
Tiptap is a headless open-source rich-text editor framework built on ProseMirror, with modular extensions and optional paid collaboration and AI features.
File sync, sharing, and a suite of apps on your own server
Nextcloud started as file sync and grew into a full collaboration suite: documents, calendar, contacts, chat, and an application ecosystem on top of the same account system.
Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager with full-page preservation
Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source bookmark manager that collects links and preserves a full copy of every page.
Self-hostable collaborative text editor with real-time co-editing
Docs is a self-hostable collaborative text editor with real-time co-editing, sub-docs, and version history for team knowledge.
Visual database that turns tables into collaborative apps and automations
AITable is a self-hosted visual database that pairs a spreadsheet interface with grid, gallery, kanban, calendar, and Gantt views plus a REST API.
Free open-source research assistant that collects, cites, and shares sources
Zotero is a free, open-source research assistant that collects, organizes, cites, and shares research sources across desktop, mobile, and the web.
Collaborative wiki with real-time editing and diagrams
Docmost is a documentation workspace with real-time collaborative editing, nested spaces, and diagram support built in rather than embedded from elsewhere.
Open-source, AI-native interface design editor
OpenPencil is a free, open-source interface design editor that opens Figma files and keeps every file on your own machine.
Encrypted collaboration suite for docs, sheets, and files
CryptPad is an encrypted collaboration suite with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and file storage in one browser workspace.
Self-hosted online editors for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
ONLYOFFICE Docs is a self-hosted online office suite for editing text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDF forms in a browser.
Self-hosted file sharing and collaboration on a Go microservice backend
OpenCloud is a self-hosted file-sharing and collaboration platform with a Go microservice backend, desktop and mobile apps, and EU-based hosting options.
Spreadsheet-like interface for Postgres data
Mathesar is an open-source, spreadsheet-like interface that works directly with PostgreSQL.
Open-source project management with tasks, time tracking, and resourcing
Worklenz is an open-source project-management platform for task management, time tracking, resource allocation, and reporting.
Collaborative data notebook mixing Python, SQL, AI help, and live sharing
Deepnote is a collaborative data notebook that mixes Python, SQL, and chart blocks with live connections to warehouses and databases in one cloud workspace.
Self-hosted file storage, sync, and collaboration without lock-in
Sync-in is a self-hosted file storage, sharing, and collaboration platform that keeps files readable on your own infrastructure with unified permissions.
End-to-end encrypted document editor with live collaboration
dDocs is a self-hosted document editor with live collaboration, suggestion mode, comments, and version history.
Team docs, collections, and project boards in one workspace
Orgnise is an AGPL-3.0 licensed team workspace that combines docs, collections, and kanban boards, delivered as a hosted service with a free starting plan.
Work management for teams that are not only engineers
Asana is aimed at the coordination work around delivery rather than at engineering tickets: campaigns, launches, onboarding, and the dependencies between them. Timeline and workload views are the parts teams adopt first.
File sync and sharing across devices and teams
Dropbox made file sync boring in the best sense: a folder that is the same everywhere, with conflict handling that mostly does the right thing. Two decades on, the sync engine is still the part competitors struggle to match.
Collaborative interface design in the browser
Figma moved interface design out of single-user desktop files and into a shared document, and the industry reorganised around it. Multiplayer editing, comments in context, and a link that always shows the current state changed how design and engineering hand work to each other.
Storage and document collaboration inside Workspace
Google Drive is storage with an office suite attached, and the suite is the reason most organisations are on it. Docs, Sheets, and Slides collaborate in real time well enough that the underlying file storage barely gets thought about.
Asynchronous screen and camera recording shared by link
Loom's contribution was the workflow, not the recording. Stop the recording and the link is already on your clipboard, which is what made replacing a meeting with a three minute video actually happen.
Infinite whiteboard for workshops and planning
Miro is the canvas most distributed teams reach for when the work is thinking rather than producing: retrospectives, service maps, story mapping, and anything else that used to need a wall and sticky notes.
Documents, databases, and project tracking in one workspace
Notion's insight was that a document and a database can be the same object. A page can be prose, a table, a board, or all three, and the same records can be viewed differently by different teams without duplication.
Channel based team messaging with a large integration ecosystem
Slack replaced internal email for a generation of companies by making conversation searchable and public by default. Channels, threads, and a very large app directory are the shape most team chat now copies.