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Real-time collaboration

9 projects tagged Real-time collaboration, best ranked first. Some replace a paid product; others are free tools people use alongside one.

Most often they replace Figma, Sketch or Trello. 8 of 9 run on your own machine. The most starred is Penpot, with 62k stars on GitHub.

Penpot

penpot/penpot Healthy growth: Stars rising (+771 in 17 days) with 199+ people committing in the last 12 months, active 11 of the last 12 weeks.
★ 62k active today

Open-source, self-hostable design and prototyping platform with real-time collaboration, components, design tokens and CSS/SVG inspect.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · MPL-2.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 2w ago GitHub ↗ View details

PLANKA

plankanban/planka Healthy growth: Stars rising (+71 in 28 days) with 25+ people committing in the last 12 months, active 7 of the last 12 weeks.
★ 13k active 4d ago

Self-hosted real-time kanban boards with Markdown cards, custom fields, stopwatch and 100+ notification providers; fair-code licence.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · Custom licence
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Partial: See details
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 5d ago GitHub ↗ View details

OpenPencil

open-pencil/open-pencil Healthy growth: Stars rising (+501 in 17 days) with 72 people committing in the last 12 months, active 12 of the last 12 weeks.
★ 9.5k active today

Open-source design editor that reads and writes Figma .fig files, with components, auto layout, P2P collaboration, optional AI and a CLI.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Partial: See details
Setup
Confirmed: Easy
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 2w ago GitHub ↗ View details

CryptPad

cryptpad/cryptpad Healthy growth: Stars rising (+36 in 28 days) with 31+ people committing in the last 12 months, active 12 of the last 12 weeks.
★ 8.0k active 1d ago

End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite with real-time documents, sheets, presentations, forms and an encrypted drive, self-hosted or on public instances.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0-or-later
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 2w ago GitHub ↗ View details

ONLYOFFICE Docs (Document Server)

ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer
★ 7.1k active 6d ago

Self-hosted online office suite with document, spreadsheet and presentation editors and real-time co-editing of .docx, .xlsx and .pptx files.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Confirmed: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 2w ago GitHub ↗ View details

WBO (Whitebophir)

lovasoa/whitebophir
★ 2.7k active 3d ago

Simple self-hosted collaborative whiteboard where many users draw on a large shared board in real time; boards are persisted.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AGPL-3.0
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Partial: See details
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 7d ago GitHub ↗ View details

Macro

macro-inc/macro Actively maintained: 33 people committing in the last 12 months, active 12 of the last 12 weeks.
★ 6.1k active today

Team workspace that puts a Gmail client, chat channels, markdown docs, tasks, a CRM, calls and AI agents in one app. AGPL-3.0.

Runs locally
Partial: Partly
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · AGPL-3.0
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Unknown: Unknown
Setup
Confirmed: Hard
7 of 8 facts sourced · checked 4d ago GitHub ↗ View details

Doory

shaongitbd/doory
★ 2.0k active today

Self-hostable browser design editor for posters, social posts, slides and cards, with templates, brand kits, co-editing and PNG/PDF/MP4 export.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Partial: Conditions · AAL
Paid services
Confirmed: None required
Hardware
Partial: See details
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 11d ago GitHub ↗ View details

4ga Boards

RARgames/4gaBoards Healthy growth: Stars rising (+7 in 17 days) with 11 people committing in the last 12 months, active 6 of the last 12 weeks.
★ 735 active 1d ago

Real-time kanban boards with projects, boards, lists, cards and tasks, dark mode, Markdown editor, SSO and board import/export; MIT.

Runs locally
Confirmed: Yes
Commercial use
Confirmed: Yes · MIT
Paid services
Partial: Optional only
Hardware
Partial: CPU works
Setup
Confirmed: Medium
8 of 8 facts sourced · checked 11d ago GitHub ↗ View details

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