# Self-Hosted Collaborative Document Editors

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## Results

- [athensresearch/athens](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/athensresearch-athens.md) (6,298 ⭐) — Athens is no longer maintainted. Athens was an open-source, collaborative knowledge graph, backed by YC W21
- [suitenumerique/docs](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/suitenumerique-docs.md) (16,094 ⭐) — This project is a self-hosted documentation platform designed for collaborative knowledge base management. It provides a block-based editor that structures content as a tree of independent nodes, allowing for flexible layout composition and the creation of complex, nested document hierarchies.

The platform distinguishes itself through an offline-first architecture that utilizes conflict-free replicated data types to maintain synchronization across multiple clients. This ensures that teams can continue editing content during network disconnections, with all changes merging automatically once c
- [appwrite/appwrite](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/appwrite-appwrite.md) (56,318 ⭐) — Appwrite is a backend-as-a-service platform that provides a unified development environment for building full-stack applications. It integrates essential infrastructure components—including authentication, databases, storage, and serverless functions—into a single, centralized interface to simplify application development and resource management.

The platform distinguishes itself through a container-based microservices architecture that ensures consistent execution across diverse infrastructure. It features a versatile connectivity layer that links frontend applications with third-party servi
- [stoatchat/self-hosted](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/stoatchat-self-hosted.md) (2,497 ⭐) — This project is a self-hosted communication suite and private messaging infrastructure. It is a containerized chat platform designed for deployment on independent hardware to maintain full control over user data and server dependencies.

The system features a modular plugin framework that allows custom features and behaviors to be loaded into the client at runtime via manifest files. It is designed as a proxy-compatible service, supporting configurable network port routing to operate behind external reverse proxy servers.

The platform covers capabilities for containerized service orchestratio
- [ueberdosis/tiptap](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/ueberdosis-tiptap.md) (37,341 ⭐) — Tiptap is a headless, modular framework designed for building custom rich-text editors. It provides a developer-focused abstraction layer over a structured document model, allowing for full control over the underlying schema through a plugin-based architecture. By separating document state management from the user interface, it enables the creation of tailored editing experiences that remain framework-agnostic.

The project distinguishes itself through a robust collaborative engine that supports real-time multi-user editing, conflict resolution, and presence tracking. It integrates artificial
- [mengshukeji/luckysheet](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/mengshukeji-luckysheet.md) (16,643 ⭐) — Luckysheet is a web-based spreadsheet component and collaborative editor designed for rendering interactive grids in a browser. It functions as an Excel-compatible data grid that allows for the import and export of spreadsheet files while maintaining tabular data structures.

The project provides real-time collaborative editing, synchronizing changes across multiple users to enable simultaneous work on shared documents. It also serves as a JavaScript data visualization tool, converting cell values into graphical charts and visual representations.

The platform covers a broad range of data mana
- [getsentry/self-hosted](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/getsentry-self-hosted.md) (9,426 ⭐) — This project is a containerized error tracking platform and monitoring suite designed for self-hosted deployment on private infrastructure. It provides a collection of services for capturing and analyzing software crashes and exceptions, ensuring that sensitive application data remains within a controlled environment.

The system includes specialized tooling for air-gapped deployment, allowing the software to be installed and operated on servers without internet access through the manual transfer of container images. It also supports corporate network integration via proxy configurations to ma
- [capsoftware/cap](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/capsoftware-cap.md) (17,026 ⭐) — Cap is a self-hosted screen recording and video collaboration platform designed for teams to replace synchronous meetings with asynchronous video updates. It provides a comprehensive suite for capturing high-resolution desktop activity, including system audio, microphone input, and camera overlays, which are then processed through an integrated post-production workflow.

The platform distinguishes itself by offering full data sovereignty through containerized deployment and object storage abstractions, allowing users to host their media assets on private infrastructure or S3-compatible buckets
- [ckeditor/ckeditor5](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/ckeditor-ckeditor5.md) (10,435 ⭐) — CKEditor 5 is a modular rich text editor framework and JavaScript UI component used to build customizable visual editors. It serves as a system for generating HTML or Markdown content, providing both full rich-text editor components and restricted inline editor components for web applications.

The framework includes a collaborative editing engine for real-time simultaneous editing, change tracking, and threaded commenting. It features an AI text assistant for polishing, rewriting, and generating content, as well as a document export engine that transforms rich text into PDF and Word files.

T
- [amruthpillai/reactive-resume](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/amruthpillai-reactive-resume.md) (38,613 ⭐) — This project is a web-based platform designed for creating, managing, and sharing professional resumes. It functions as a structured document builder that integrates artificial intelligence to assist with content generation, editing, and analysis. Users can maintain a collection of resumes, customize their visual presentation through various templates, and export them into multiple formats for job applications.

The platform distinguishes itself through its autonomous AI agent capabilities, which can perform research, suggest incremental edits, and apply data patches directly to documents. It
- [datawranglerai/self-host-n8n-on-gcr](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/datawranglerai-self-host-n8n-on-gcr.md) (608 ⭐) — Self-host n8n on Google Cloud without the subscription fees or server headaches - because your automation workflows shouldn't cost more than your coffee budget
- [facebook/lexical](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/facebook-lexical.md) (23,562 ⭐) — Lexical is a modular rich text editor framework used to build extensible web-based editors. It functions as a state-driven content editor that maintains a serializable, immutable snapshot of document content to ensure predictable updates and accessibility compliance.

The framework is distinguished by its plugin-based architecture and customizable node framework, which allow developers to extend editor behavior through specialized content nodes and encapsulated runtime logic. It also includes a collaborative editing engine capable of synchronizing document state across multiple clients in real
- [formbricks/formbricks](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/formbricks-formbricks.md) (12,391 ⭐) — Formbricks is an open-source survey and feedback platform designed to help teams capture and analyze user insights through targeted, in-app, and website-based interactions. It functions as a comprehensive customer experience analytics system that allows organizations to maintain full control over their data, user attributes, and survey workflows.

The platform distinguishes itself through its event-driven architecture, which enables precise behavioral targeting by triggering surveys based on specific user actions or application events. It supports deep integration with external ecosystems by a
- [funwithflutter/google-docs-clone-flutter](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/funwithflutter-google-docs-clone-flutter.md) (131 ⭐) — Google-Docs Like Clone With Flutter Web and Appwrite
- [propublica/django-collaborative](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/propublica-django-collaborative.md) (100 ⭐) — ProPublica's collaborative tip-gathering framework. Import and manage CSV, Google Sheets and Screendoor data with ease.
- [asciinema/asciinema](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/asciinema-asciinema.md) (16,852 ⭐) — Asciinema is a platform for capturing, replaying, and sharing command-line sessions. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools to record terminal activity into lightweight, text-based files that preserve ANSI escape sequences, allowing users to document technical workflows, troubleshooting steps, and software demonstrations with high fidelity.

The project distinguishes itself through its versatile playback and distribution capabilities. It features a web-based player that renders interactive terminal sessions directly in the browser, supporting features like seeking, playback speed control,
- [rust-lang/rust-analyzer](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/rust-lang-rust-analyzer.md) (16,590 ⭐) — Rust-analyzer is a language server implementation that provides real-time code intelligence, static analysis, and development productivity tools for the Rust programming language. It functions as a backend engine that communicates with text editors to deliver deep structural understanding of source code, enabling features like semantic analysis, symbol navigation, and automated refactoring.

The project distinguishes itself through a core engine designed for high-performance responsiveness, utilizing incremental query-based compilation and lazy demand-driven evaluation to minimize resource con
- [excalidraw/excalidraw](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/excalidraw-excalidraw.md) (125,451 ⭐) — This project is a virtual whiteboard component and vector graphics editor designed for creating diagrams with a hand-drawn aesthetic. It provides a canvas-based drawing engine that can be embedded directly into web applications, allowing users to manipulate shapes, upload images, and export visual data into standard formats like PNG, SVG, or JSON.

The platform distinguishes itself through a real-time synchronization layer that supports multi-user collaboration across distributed environments. This engine utilizes end-to-end encryption to secure shared sessions and employs a local-first data p
- [dubinc/dub](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/dubinc-dub.md) (23,722 ⭐) — This project is a comprehensive link management and marketing attribution platform designed for creating, tracking, and analyzing shortened URLs. It functions as a centralized hub for marketing analytics, providing tools to monitor link performance, visualize conversion funnels, and manage affiliate programs through a unified dashboard.

The platform distinguishes itself by integrating advanced attribution modeling and partner management directly into the link infrastructure. It supports complex marketing workflows, including automated commission calculations, fraud detection, and payout distr
- [doc-detective/doc-detective](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/doc-detective-doc-detective.md) (125 ⭐) — Doc Detective is doc content testing framework that makes it easy to keep your docs accurate and up-to-date. You write tests, and Doc Detective runs them directly against your product to make sure your docs match your user experience. Whether it’s a UI-based process or a series of API calls, Doc…
- [coollabsio/coolify](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/coollabsio-coolify.md) (57,055 ⭐) — This project is a self-hosted platform-as-a-service that provides a centralized management interface for deploying, configuring, and monitoring containerized applications and databases on private infrastructure. It functions as a visual control plane, automating the end-to-end lifecycle of services from source code to production. By managing container orchestration, networking, and resource allocation, it allows users to maintain full control over their own hardware while streamlining the delivery of software.

The platform distinguishes itself through its agentless architecture, which uses se
- [ibit-to/google-unlocked](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/ibit-to-google-unlocked.md) (2,383 ⭐) — Google Unlocked browser extension uncensor google search results
- [arize-ai/phoenix](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/arize-ai-phoenix.md) (8,605 ⭐) — Arize Phoenix is an LLM observability platform and evaluation framework designed to capture execution traces and monitor large language model applications. It serves as a prompt management system for versioning and testing templates, and as a self-hosted AI operations infrastructure for managing telemetry and experiments.

The platform differentiates itself through a specialized embedding visualization tool used to detect data drift and optimize vector search. It provides a comprehensive evaluation suite that utilizes judge-based evaluators and ground-truth datasets to score model outputs, and
- [mattermost/focalboard](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/mattermost-focalboard.md) (26,240 ⭐) — Focalboard is an open-source project management tool and collaborative task organizer. It functions as a kanban board system where users define, track, and update project tasks within a shared digital workspace.

The platform is designed for self-hosted team collaboration, allowing organizations to manage project goals and workflows on their own private infrastructure. It provides a visual environment for mapping out complex projects and coordinating team efforts without the use of proprietary software.

The software covers project task management and visual workflow organization through the u
- [chartdb/chartdb](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/chartdb-chartdb.md) (21,286 ⭐) — ChartDB is a database schema visualizer and entity-relationship diagramming platform designed to help developers understand, design, and document complex data architectures. It functions as a visual workspace where users can create and modify database schemas, define table attributes, and map foreign key relationships. By parsing database metadata or SQL scripts, the tool generates interactive diagrams that provide a clear overview of structural interdependencies and data associations.

The platform distinguishes itself through its focus on automated documentation and schema synchronization. I
- [n8n-io/self-hosted-ai-starter-kit](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/n8n-io-self-hosted-ai-starter-kit.md) (14,997 ⭐) — This project provides a dockerized AI workflow stack and orchestration templates for deploying a self-hosted AI environment. It establishes a localized infrastructure for building autonomous agents and model chains that process private data on-premises without external cloud dependencies.

The environment is designed to support autonomous agent development, allowing models to dynamically select tools, execute shell commands, and interact with local file systems. It includes integrated vector database support to enable retrieval augmented generation and private document analysis.

The stack cov
- [portswigger/collaborator-everywhere](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/portswigger-collaborator-everywhere.md) (447 ⭐) — A Burp Suite Pro extension which augments your proxy traffic by injecting non-invasive headers designed to reveal backend systems by causing pingbacks to Burp Collaborator
- [langfuse/langfuse](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/langfuse-langfuse.md) (29,190 ⭐) — Langfuse is an open-source observability and evaluation platform designed for language model applications. It provides a centralized system for tracking execution traces, monitoring performance metrics, and managing prompt templates. By capturing hierarchical units of work and telemetry data, the platform enables developers to debug complex application lifecycles and analyze token usage, latency, and model interactions in production environments.

The platform distinguishes itself through an integrated evaluation framework that allows for systematic benchmarking and automated scoring of model
- [jordanknott/taskcafe](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/jordanknott-taskcafe.md) (5,176 ⭐) — Taskcafe is a self-hosted task management system and collaborative work management platform. It provides a private workspace for organizing work through a variety of interfaces, including Kanban boards, hierarchical outlines, and calendars.

The platform is designed for containerized deployment, orchestrating the application, database, and cache to ensure consistent environment management. It distinguishes itself by offering project portfolio dashboards for high-level monitoring and the ability to create public project boards that allow external visitors to view content without authentication.
- [writethedocs/docs](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/writethedocs-docs.md) (1,366 ⭐) — This is the code that powers www.writethedocs.org. It contains information about the Write the Docs group, as well as information about writing documentation.
- [chatwoot/chatwoot](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/chatwoot-chatwoot.md) (31,959 ⭐) — Chatwoot is a self-hosted, omnichannel customer support platform designed to aggregate messages from diverse social and digital channels into a single, collaborative team inbox. It provides organizations with full data ownership and control over their support infrastructure, ensuring strict logical separation of customer data through multi-tenant architecture. By centralizing communication, the platform enables teams to manage, route, and resolve inquiries within a unified workspace that maintains complete interaction history for every contact.

The platform distinguishes itself through an eve
- [bytedance/deer-flow](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/bytedance-deer-flow.md) (71,310 ⭐) — Deer-flow is an autonomous agent orchestration platform designed to manage multi-step workflows where AI agents reason, plan, and execute tasks. It functions as a development framework for building agents that utilize various large language models to solve complex problems through structured, sequential, and parallel reasoning.

The platform distinguishes itself through a secure, sandboxed execution engine that isolates generated code and system operations from the host environment. This architecture allows agents to safely test and validate solutions within ephemeral containers, ensuring that
- [gitroomhq/postiz-app](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/gitroomhq-postiz-app.md) (32,271 ⭐) — Postiz is an open-source social media management platform designed to centralize the scheduling, publishing, and analysis of content across diverse social networks, community forums, and blogging platforms. It functions as a unified hub where users can coordinate, review, and distribute content through a shared team workspace, while leveraging integrated artificial intelligence to assist in drafting text and generating multimedia assets.

The platform distinguishes itself through a modular architecture that utilizes a provider-specific adapter pattern to ensure consistent content distribution
- [googlehosts/hosts](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/googlehosts-hosts.md) (20,619 ⭐) — This project is a curated collection of domain-to-IP mappings designed to bypass network censorship and restore access to restricted web services. It provides a set of host file entries and static domain mapping files that allow users to redirect blocked traffic to accessible mirrors or proxy servers.

The system functions by prioritizing local host entries over external DNS responses. It utilizes plain-text configuration files that are intended for manual injection into a system's hosts file to override default name resolution.

The project covers network connectivity and DNS override managem
- [meshery/meshery](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/meshery-meshery.md) (9,966 ⭐) — Meshery is a service mesh management plane and cloud native infrastructure orchestrator. It provides a visual design-as-code environment for modeling microservices and infrastructure components through declarative blueprints, functioning as a centralized platform for designing, deploying, and managing service mesh infrastructure.

The platform is distinguished by its ability to translate visual designs into active deployments and its use of gRPC-based adapters to integrate with diverse infrastructure providers. It features a multi-tenant architecture that manages shared workspaces and role-bas
- [healthchecks/healthchecks](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/healthchecks-healthchecks.md) (9,891 ⭐) — Healthchecks is a heartbeat monitoring service and cron job monitoring tool designed to track the execution and success of scheduled tasks and systemd timers. It functions as a dead man switch, alerting users when expected periodic signals from remote processes fail to arrive.

The system accepts health signals via HTTP and SMTP, allowing it to track infrastructure heartbeats from sources ranging from CI/CD workflows to network routers. It distinguishes itself by supporting the capture of diagnostic data, including exit codes and execution logs, and by calculating the duration between start an
- [geritol/write-guard](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/geritol-write-guard.md) (9 ⭐) — Github Action to enforce file level write access for monorepos
- [toeverything/affine](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/toeverything-affine.md) (69,443 ⭐) — AFFiNE is a collaborative knowledge base and productivity suite designed as a private-first, local-first platform. It provides an integrated workspace that combines structured documents with an infinite digital canvas, allowing users to organize complex information through a block-based model. By prioritizing local data persistence, the platform ensures immediate responsiveness and data sovereignty while maintaining a distributed state for real-time synchronization across multiple devices.

The platform distinguishes itself through a canvas-integrated database engine that enables transitions b
- [langchain-ai/langchainjs](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/langchain-ai-langchainjs.md) (17,818 ⭐) — LangChain.js is a framework for building, executing, and monitoring stateful agentic applications. It provides an orchestration engine that models workflows as directed graphs, allowing developers to connect language models, data sources, and external tools into modular, multi-step processes.

The platform distinguishes itself through its focus on stateful execution and human-in-the-loop control. It manages agent lifecycles by persisting execution state across threads, enabling fault tolerance and the ability to pause workflows at designated breakpoints for manual review or modification. This
- [electric-sql/electric](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/electric-sql-electric.md) (9,909 ⭐) — Electric is a Postgres data synchronization engine and replication proxy designed to enable local-first software. It replicates data from Postgres databases to client-side stores in real time using logical replication, allowing applications to maintain a local embedded database for offline access and low-latency updates.

The system distinguishes itself by using shapes to filter and authorize specific subsets of database rows and columns before streaming them to clients or edge workers. It further supports multi-user collaboration by integrating a conflict-free replicated data type framework t
- [brktrlw/django-admin-collaborator](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/brktrlw-django-admin-collaborator.md) (105 ⭐) — Real-time collaborative editing for Django admin with WebSockets
- [ianstormtaylor/slate](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/ianstormtaylor-slate.md) (31,698 ⭐) — Slate is a customizable rich text editor framework that treats documents as a recursive tree of nodes. It functions as a schema-based, state-driven system designed to enforce structural constraints and manage nested components within a structured document model.

The framework utilizes a plugin-based architecture to extend editor functionality, allowing for the injection of custom logic into the rendering and transformation pipeline. It supports real-time collaborative editing by synchronizing document operations across multiple users.

The system covers a broad range of capabilities, includin
- [f/prompts.chat](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/f-prompts-chat.md) (163,814 ⭐) — This platform serves as a centralized management system for organizing, refining, and versioning AI instructions and agent skills. It functions as a repository that enables users to store, categorize, and retrieve structured prompts, ensuring consistent performance across various artificial intelligence models. By integrating with the Model Context Protocol, the system allows external AI assistants and development environments to discover and access these instruction libraries directly.

The platform distinguishes itself through its focus on prompt engineering and automated refinement, utilizi
- [google/revisiting-self-supervised](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/google-revisiting-self-supervised.md) (352 ⭐)
- [codemirror/dev](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/codemirror-dev.md) (7,820 ⭐) — CodeMirror is a browser-based code editor framework and modular extension system used to embed full-featured text editors into web pages. It functions as a syntax tree parsing engine and a language server protocol client, enabling structural language analysis and deep integration with external programming language services.

The project is distinguished by its modular architecture, which uses a system of extensions and compartments for dynamic reconfiguration at runtime. It supports real-time collaborative editing and state synchronization through an operational transformation framework, allow
- [cockroachdb/cockroach](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/cockroachdb-cockroach.md) (32,207 ⭐) — Cockroach is a distributed SQL database designed to scale horizontally across multiple nodes while maintaining strict ACID compliance and global data consistency. It functions as a relational database engine that automatically partitions data into ranges, rebalancing them across a cluster to accommodate growing storage and throughput requirements. By utilizing a distributed consensus protocol, the system ensures that all nodes agree on the order of operations, providing fault tolerance and continuous availability even in the event of hardware failures.

The system distinguishes itself through
- [gitterhq/docs](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/gitterhq-docs.md) (58 ⭐) — Moved to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/docs
- [codimd/server](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/codimd-server.md) (7,249 ⭐) — This project is a self-hosted note-taking platform and collaborative markdown wiki. It functions as a real-time markdown collaborative editor, allowing multiple users to create, organize, and share documents simultaneously.

The platform is designed for self-hosted knowledge management and collaborative markdown documentation, providing a private environment for teams to maintain shared technical notes.
- [4armed/terraform-burp-collaborator](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/4armed-terraform-burp-collaborator.md) (25 ⭐) — This is a Terraform configuration to build a Burp Private Collaborator Server on an Amazon Web Services EC2 Instance. It uses Terraform to create the instance and then uses our Ansible Burp Collaborator Server role from Ansible Galaxy to provision the Burp service.
- [heyscrumpy/tiptap](https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/heyscrumpy-tiptap.md) (37,270 ⭐) — Tiptap is a headless rich text editor framework and extensible WYSIWYG framework designed for building custom text editors. It functions as a high-level wrapper around the ProseMirror toolkit, separating core editing logic and state management from the user interface.

The framework enables real-time collaborative editing through a synchronization system using conflict-free replicated data types. It also supports the integration of AI content generation to provide automated suggestions and content refinement directly within the editor.

The system utilizes a plugin-based extension architecture