GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04
Google Docs alternative for self-hosting or hosted usage: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
The project started last month 12 years ago in 2014 as the “realtime collaborative visual editor with zero knowlege server” with the commit [Wayback/Archive] and so it begins · cryptpad/cryptpad@1508c7b · GitHub.
Via¹: [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “I’m currently testing Cryptpad for collaborative working.…” – chaos.social
I’m currently testing Cryptpad for collaborative working. My insecurity appliance bingo sheet looks quite bland, I’m not entirely happy. This is because the ❌✅ emoji are displayed in black/white.
What do you think, should I shift from Google Docs? Is there a way to display colored emoji in Cryptpad Tables?
Definitely something to try as it covers a lot of document types and (especially the markdown slides) might very well be suited for presentations on conferences/workshops. I grabbed these links from [Wayback/Archive] CryptPad Review: Replacing Google Docs – Privacy Guides:
That review also mentions a few downsides which for me are nothing unexpected and certainly easy to live with:
- Due to the nature of end-to-end encryption, it is slower.
- There is no mobile or desktop app available at this time. CryptPad only runs in the browser (for now).
Links:
- [Wayback/Archive] CryptPad.org – project web-site
- [Wayback/Archive] About CryptPad – CryptPad.org has nice imagery on how it works. I especially like the image I quoted here on the right:
- [Wayback/Archive] CryptPad (@CryptPad@xwiki.com) – XWiki Mastodon instance
- [Wayback/Archive] CryptPad Status (which pointed me to a new uptime solution I didn’t know about; more about that tomorrow ²)
- [Wayback/Archive] Pricing – CryptPad.org (starting at a free level on either the French “flagship instance” or another public instance, or of course self hosted)
- [Wayback/Archive] Public instances – CryptPad.org
- [Wayback/Archive] Home page – CryptPad.fr – the “flagship instance”
- [Wayback/Archive] CryptPad Documentation — CryptPad 2025.6.0 documentation
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cryptpad/documentation: Documentation for CryptPad, a collaboration suite that is encrypted and open-source.
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--jeroen
¹ yes using coloured backgrounds solved this really nicely: [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “Hmmm. I guess this would work?…” – chaos.social
My guess is that Security appliance 2025 bingo scorecard will move soon from Google Docs at [Wayback/Archive] https://cku.gt/appbingo25 to another place (:
² GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool
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