Top 6 Office Suite Open-Source Projects

Etherpad

45 15,798 9.7 JavaScript

Etherpad: A modern really-real-time collaborative document editor.

Project mention: Edit This Blog Post | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-06

CryptPad

183 5,187 9.9 JavaScript

Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Project mention: Browse Self-Hosted Software | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-04

In my frustration with MS Office, I gave it a chance and searched for MS Office alternatives ... and found https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad ! Looks quite nice. Maybe I should set that up on a server.

SurveyJS

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Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
ONLYOFFICE

172 4,351 6.8 Shell

ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.

Project mention: Ask HN: Why hasn't OnlyOffice see higher adoption than LibreOffice? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

Had never even heard of it.
And their website doesn't help at all - https://www.onlyoffice.com/ - At first, I thought it is selling some kind of add-on for Businesses to use with Microsoft Office. Then I clicked "Get it now" and saw a page that gives me options to download a Docker Image, or Cloud Images or VM Images. What the heck? Then I see the "GET OnlyOffice" link in the navigation menu and go to it - the menu pop-up talks about DocSpace, Enterprise, Workspace etc. etc. and asks to sign-in for cloud. Again, what the heck?? Then I go to the PRODUCT link that also pop-ups lot of options - like - Doc editors to integrate into your business platform .... ??? Then I see the "Desktop and Mobile Apps" option in it and click 'For Desktop'. And finally, here I found what I had been searching for - Get free desktop office suite for document editing and collaboration ( https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop.aspx ).
When a website is designed to be "Enterprisey" - only targetting and catering to a particular audience, and totally ignores everyone else - I am not surprised it's userbase is limited.

EtherCalc

15 2,909 0.0 JavaScript

Node.js port of Multi-user SocialCalc

Project mention: PicoCalc | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-02

Somewhat random, but spreadsheets continued to evolve after VisiCalc (obviously).
Here is one by the inventor of VisiCalc, Dan Bricklin, on github: https://github.com/DanBricklin/socialcalc
Audrey Tang (who happens to currently serve as the Minister of Digital Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan)) created the Node.js port of SocialCalc, EtherCalc: https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc
Audrey made a fascinating write up of SocialCalc for The Architecture of Open Source Applications https://aosabook.org/en/v1/socialcalc.html

WebODF

2 783 0.0 JavaScript

WebODF - JavaScript Document Engine
Infinoted

0 567 6.6 C++

Gobby collaborative editor

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-04.