Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Multi User Text Editor
A collaborative, Google Docs-like text editor
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Multi User Text Editor launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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File manager + CRDT Note Editor. Contribute to notebox/nbfm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 3OT
2016 · cricklet.github.io · its alternatives →
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2018 · archagon.net · its alternatives →
- 5WC
2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →
- 6FA
2013 · firepad.io · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex, inline comments, tables, and callouts to name a few. Features - Collaborative real-time editor - Spaces (Teamspace) - User permissions - Groups - Comments - Page history - Nested pages - Search - File attachments You can find screenshots of the product on the website. Website:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Reactivepad▲243Docs made smart with textually narrated calculations 📝📊
2018 · reactivepad.com · its alternatives →
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Word processor in your browser using HTML and CSS (for invoices, legal notices, etc.) - delight-im/HTML-Sheets-of-Paper
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Collaborative editor with end-to-end encryption.
2017 · standardnotes.org · its alternatives →
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Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required - ekzhang/rustpad
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Draft brand new documents to use over API
2025 · useanvil.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Like many of you here, this is not my first time applying to YC. Each time, my co-founder and I would copy the YC application to google docs to collaborate on it, then we copy it back to submit. This got us thinking - why can't we just collaborate on the YC application in the YC application? At one point I went down the CRDT rabbit hole and realized collaborative forms would be a great use of CRDTs, so I decided to build this out to an MVP. If you're curious about CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types) and how they differ from OT (Operational transformation, which is what powers…
2024 · togetherform.com · its alternatives →
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A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor. Contribute to overleaf/overleaf development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Design powerful websites together with your team on Editor X
2021 · wix.com · its alternatives →
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Zen Editor▲99Customizable AI Text Editor that syncs with Google Docs
Nov 2025 · zeneditor.co · its alternatives →
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Make Google Docs good-looking in two clicks
2016 · gdoc.pub · its alternatives →
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2014 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal-based, hyper-fast, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking tool - Sambigeara/fuzzynote
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor alternatives
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