Etherpad
The editor for documents that matter.
Etherpad is an open-source, real-time collaborative text editor that runs entirely on self-hosted infrastructure, giving organizations full data sovereignty. It attributes every keystroke to its author, preserves full revision history, and supports over 290 plugins for extended functionality. It is widely used by Wikimedia, governments, universities, and newsrooms that require privacy and auditability.
Users deploy Etherpad on their own server, where all documents are stored locally with full authorship tracking and revision history, and functionality is extended via a plugin ecosystem.
Organizations, institutions, and teams that require self-hosted, privacy-respecting collaborative document editing
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Launched
- 2009
Founders
- John McLeargithub
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