CryptPad vs WPS Office
CryptPad and WPS Office are both office suite software. CryptPad is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 8k GitHub stars. WPS Office is a commercial product from Kingsoft.
Which to pick
- Pick CryptPad when
- Confidentiality is the deciding factor and you want shared documents that even the server operator cannot read, either self-hosted or on cryptpad.fr.
- Pick WPS Office when
- You need a free, Office-compatible suite for personal use on Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile.
Side by side
An end-to-end encrypted office suite in the browser with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, kanban and whiteboards, where the server cannot read the content.
A free office suite with a writer, spreadsheet, presentation and PDF tools that open and save Microsoft Office formats.
Encryption makes server-side search, recovery of lost keys and integrations harder, and large spreadsheets and documents can feel slower than Google or Microsoft equivalents.
The free version shows ads, it comes from a Chinese vendor which matters to some organisations, and complex Office files may not round-trip cleanly.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Desktop app and mobile app
JavaScript, Node.js and OnlyOffice
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Kingsoft
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
8k GitHub stars
2.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release 2026.10.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.