Office documents · Whiteboards & diagrams · Forms & surveys
CryptPad
End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite from France.
open source self-hostable hosted in Europe XWiki SAS · FRDocuments, sheets, kanban, forms and whiteboards that the server itself cannot read.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
| Hosted in Europe | servers in Europe, run by a European company | ≈ €5/mo per seat | yellow — European company, European servers, but someone else runs it. |
Facts
| Company / project | XWiki SAS (FR) — Also makes CryptPad |
|---|---|
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 512 MB RAM · 0.5 vCPU · 5 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Google Workspace |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 7,880 stars · updated 2026-05-26 · Nodejs, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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