CryptPad
CryptPad is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Office Suites category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in JavaScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Docs, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and ships a Docker image. It has 8,028 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Office Suites
- JavaScript
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 8,028
- Forks
- 866
- Open issues
- 309
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,005
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- 2026.10.0Oct 21, 2026
- Created
- Oct 31, 2014
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 1,005 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases6 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,005 |
| Latest release | 2026.10.0 (Oct 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 6 |
| Releases, all time | 139 |
| Open issues | 309 |
| Open pull requests | 47 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Oct 31, 2014 |
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About CryptPad
Collaboration suite built to enable collaboration, synchronizing changes to documents in real time.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad.
Topics
- collaborative-editing
- cryptpad
- javascript
- chainpad
- collaboration
- e2ee
- end-to-end-encryption
- real-time
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Is CryptPad free and open source?
Yes. CryptPad is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run CryptPad with Docker?
Yes. CryptPad provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to CryptPad?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to CryptPad include Etherpad, Grist and ONLYOFFICE. CryptPad itself is a self-hosted alternative to Google Docs, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Dropbox Paper.
Is CryptPad actively maintained?
The most recent commit to CryptPad was on Oct 23, 2026 with 1,005 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 2026.10.0, published Oct 21, 2026. It had 309 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.