Alternatives to CryptPad
End-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
CryptPad
End-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as CryptPad.
Collabora Online
LibreOffice running in the browser with real-time collaboration.
Collabora Online brings LibreOffice to the browser with native ODF and Office editing and Nextcloud integration, but without end-to-end encryption, and production use is paid.
ONLYOFFICE DocSpace
A document collaboration platform built around rooms where teams and guests co-edit and review office files.
ONLYOFFICE DocSpace provides hosted or self-hosted co-editing rooms with comments, chat and calls, but it is not open source and lacks end-to-end encryption.
Google Workspace
Google's online office suite with Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Drive and Meet in one account.
Google Workspace offers documents, sheets, slides, mail and meetings in the browser, but stores all files on Google's servers without end-to-end encryption.
Microsoft 365
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook with cloud storage and collaboration.
Microsoft 365 provides Word, Excel and PowerPoint with co-authoring across desktop, web and mobile, under subscription pricing and closed source.
Zoho Workplace
An online suite from Zoho combining mail, team chat, meetings, file storage and office editors.
Zoho Workplace combines office editors with mail, chat, meetings and file storage, but is hosted only with data on Zoho's servers.
Also worth comparing
These listings name CryptPad as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
LibreOffice
The full free office suite: word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, database and formula editor.
CryptPad offers end-to-end encrypted documents, sheets and slides with real-time collaboration in the browser, but public instances cap storage and it is not a desktop suite.
Etherpad
Real-time collaborative plain-text editor you host yourself.
CryptPad offers end-to-end encrypted real-time editing with rich documents, sheets and slides under AGPL-3.0, but encryption limits server-side features like full-text search.
WPS Office
Office suite with strong Microsoft Office file compatibility.
CryptPad is an open-source browser suite with end-to-end encrypted collaboration, but encryption limits server-side features and public instances cap storage.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Excalidraw
Collaborative whiteboard with a hand-drawn look.
Formbricks
Self-hostable survey and in-app feedback platform.
Trello
A web-based Kanban board app for organizing tasks and projects alone or in teams.
Google Drive
Google's cloud storage and file sharing service with desktop sync and mobile apps.
