Etherpad18.6k

ether/etherpad

Open sourceFreeProductivity & NotesSelf-hosted

What is Etherpad?

Open source web-based collaborative document editor where several people edit the same text in real time. It has 18,618 stars on GitHub and ranks #55 in Productivity & Notes. You can host it on your own server and keep your data.

GitHub description: Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.

Platforms

Docker

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