Office suites and document editors in 2026
5 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Microsoft 365 has the most readers, about 10k a month. 30 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Etherpad leads with 19k stars, ahead of CryptPad. 21 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (13), AGPL-3.0 (7) and GPL-3.0 (5).
Commercial office suites and document editors
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Microsoft 365 Microsoft
Subscription services offered by Microsoft
Complete system Production-ready A business of any size that relies on Excel and Office files, Windows PCs or Microsoft identity and security tooling.
10k readers a month Since 2017 Commercial -
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Google Workspace Google
Try Google Workspace's (formerly G Suite) secure collaboration and productivity apps for businesses of all sizes. Includes Gmail, Drive, Meet and more
Complete system Production-ready A small or mid-size business that works mostly in the browser and values real-time co-editing over desktop Office features.
4.6k readers a month Since 2006 Commercial -
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WPS Office Kingsoft
WPS Office is a free all-in-one office suite for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files. Write, edit, convert, and collaborate faster with built-in AI across Windows, Mac, and mobile.
Complete system Production-ready You need a free, Office-compatible suite for personal use on Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile.
2.7k readers a month Since 1988 Commercial -
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Apple iWork Apple Inc.
Every Apple device includes powerful, intuitive apps to help you create, connect, and get things done on Mac, iPad, iPhone, and more.
Complete system Production-ready You work on Apple devices and want free, well-designed apps for documents and presentations.
877 readers a month Since 2004 Commercial -
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Zoho Workplace Zoho Corporation
Zoho Workplace is a productivity and collaboration suite trusted by millions. It brings mail, chat, files, office suite, meetings, and more into one place.
Complete system Production-ready A small business wants a cheaper alternative to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, especially if it already uses other Zoho apps.
Commercial
New open-source projects
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ibisOffice ibisjp
The next-gen Office suite built with Rust & GPUI. Blazing-fast, memory-safe, and highly accurate editing for DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX with pixel-perfect rendering. Powered by DirectX, Metal, Vulkan & WebGPU for peak performance across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Web (Wasm).
Complete system Experimental Only for evaluation; it is too new for everyday office work.
★ 421 AGPL-3.0 Rust Active, pushed 3 days ago -
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Tinylittleoffice aboard-io
A free office suite where your document is inside the link and easy to share. There's no account and nothing saved unless you choose.
Complete system Experimental You want to share a quick document without accounts or cloud storage.
★ 570 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago -
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Doca workhold
Doca｜开源文档管理与知识库，支持多人协同编辑、在线文档、Markdown、表格、幻灯片、画布和 AI 助手。Self-hosted document management, knowledge base & real-time collaborative editing for individuals and small teams.
Complete system Experimental A small Chinese- or English-speaking team wants one self-hosted place for documents, sheets and slides and is willing to ride a fast-moving new project.
★ 494 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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Bento nyblnet
Bento, the office suite that fits in a file
Complete system Experimental You want a portable, self-contained office tool for simple documents without installing software.
★ 5.6k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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Betteroffice openooxml
Native OOXML engines in Rust - DOCX, XLSX & PPTX editing, rendering and real-time collaboration, compiled to WASM for the web.
Building block Experimental You are building Office document editing into a web product and want an open engine.
★ 333 Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today
Open-source office suites and document editors
Complete systems you can adopt 8
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Etherpad ether
Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.
Complete system Production-ready You want a self-hosted shared notepad for meetings, drafting or public-sector work where authorship and history matter more than rich formatting.
★ 19k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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CryptPad cryptpad
Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
Complete system Production-ready Confidentiality is the deciding factor and you want shared documents that even the server operator cannot read, either self-hosted or on cryptpad.fr.
★ 8k AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed today -
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DocumentServer ONLYOFFICE
ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.
Complete system Production-ready You want browser-based Office-compatible editing on your own servers.
★ 7.1k AGPL-3.0 Shell Active, pushed 8 days ago -
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Bento nyblnet
Bento, the office suite that fits in a file
Complete system Experimental You want a portable, self-contained office tool for simple documents without installing software.
★ 5.6k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today -
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Core LibreOffice
Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead
Complete system Production-ready You want a free desktop office suite or need to build or contribute to LibreOffice; most users should download the release instead.
★ 4.6k GPL-3.0 C++ Active, pushed today -
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Sync-in Server Sync-in
Sync-in · Sovereign platform for file storage, sharing, synchronization, and collaboration.
Complete system Usable A small organisation wants a lighter Nextcloud alternative focused on files, sharing and document editing on its own servers.
★ 2k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed yesterday -
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Tinylittleoffice aboard-io
A free office suite where your document is inside the link and easy to share. There's no account and nothing saved unless you choose.
Complete system Experimental You want to share a quick document without accounts or cloud storage.
★ 570 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago -
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Doca workhold
Doca｜开源文档管理与知识库，支持多人协同编辑、在线文档、Markdown、表格、幻灯片、画布和 AI 助手。Self-hosted document management, knowledge base & real-time collaborative editing for individuals and small teams.
Complete system Experimental A small Chinese- or English-speaking team wants one self-hosted place for documents, sheets and slides and is willing to ride a fast-moving new project.
★ 494 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today
Integrations 1
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Text nextcloud
📑 Collaborative document editing using Markdown
Integration Production-ready You run Nextcloud and want shared Markdown notes and documents without adding a full office suite.
★ 665 AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed today
Developer tools 1
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Teamtype teamtype
Peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic collaborative editing of local text files.
Developer tool Usable You pair-program or co-write across different editors and want shared editing of a whole directory without a central server or account.
★ 2k AGPL-3.0 Rust Active, pushed 3 days ago
Compared head to head
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Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 17. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Network copyleft: 7. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Strong copyleft: 5. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
- Weak copyleft: 1. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
Languages
TypeScript 13, JavaScript 6, Rust 3, Lua 2, Shell 1, C++ 1, Objective-C 1, GDScript 1, Go 1 and Python 1.
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