Related Projects
There have been a number of attempts of enabling collaborative text editing! If you think a project is missing, feel free to submit an issue or a PR to add them to the list!
| Open-source | Actively developed1 | Peer-to-peer | Local-first2 | Editor-agnostic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teamtype | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (Neovim, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, TeXstudio) |
| Open Collab Tools | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ (VS Code, Eclipse Theia) |
| Reflection | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (Standalone) |
| Zed Collaboration | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ (Zed) |
| Tandem | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (Sublime, Neovim, Vim) |
| crdt.el | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (Emacs) |
| instant.nvim | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (Neovim) |
| Teletype | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (Atom) |
| Etherpad | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Web) |
| HedgeDoc | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌3 | ❌ (Web) |
| CryptPad | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Web) |
| Nextcloud Collectives via Text | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ (Web) |
| Rustpad | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Web) |
| Collabora Online | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Web) |
| Overleaf | ✅4 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Web) |
| SubEthaEdit | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ (Standalone) |
| Acme of Plan 9 | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Standalone) |
| CoVim | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Vim) |
| togetherly.el | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Emacs) |
| Gobby | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ (Standalone) |
| codemp | ❌5 | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ (Neovim, VS Code, Sublime, JetBrains IDEs) |
| Floobits | ❌5 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (Sublime, Atom, Neovim, Vim, JetBrains IDEs, Emacs) |
| Duckly | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (VS Code, JetBrains IDEs) |
| Google Docs | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Web) |
| Visual Studio Live Share | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (Visual Studio, VS Code) |
| IntelliJ’s Code With Me | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (JetBrains IDEs) |