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CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys.
CryptPad provides a full-fledged office suite with all the tools necessary for productive collaboration. Applications include: Rich Text, Spreadsheets, Code/Markdown, Kanban, Slides, Whiteboard and Forms.
All data on CryptPad is encrypted in the browser. This means no readable data leaves the user's device. Even the service administrators cannot see the content of documents or user data.
CryptPad is built to enable collaboration with features such as team drives, calendar, and sharing. It synchronizes changes to documents in real time. Because all data is encrypted, the service and its administrators have no way of seeing the content being edited and stored.
Ettex is an all-in-one office suite built local-first. Your documents live on your device, work offline, and sync between devices โ instead of sitting in someone else's cloud by default. It is a private alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
Docs โ rich text editing, real-time collaboration, comments, version history, DOCX/PDF export. Sheets โ formulas, conditional formatting, sorting, charts, XLSX/CSV. Slides โ layouts, themes, fullscreen present mode, PPTX import. Notes โ ideas, research and meetings with tags, checklists and links to documents. Forms โ surveys with sections, validation and a live response summary. PDF โ fillable templates for contracts, NDAs and offers: fill, sign, download. Mail, Chat, Calendar โ threads, labels, scheduled send, channels, events and reminders.
CRM โ contacts, a visual deal pipeline and activity tracking. Invoices & Books โ invoicing with PDF export, plus bookkeeping accounts, transactions and reports. Signature โ send documents for e-signature and track status. Sites โ a website and store builder with 70+ sections and one-click publishing. Board & Records โ kanban boards and structured tables on a local-first engine. Teams & API โ members, roles, audit log, and a developer API with MCP integration.
Available in English and Russian. Free tier, 14-day Pro trial without a card, paid plans from $9 per user per month.
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Ettex.cloud's answer:
Ettex is local-first. Your documents live on your device and stay usable offline, instead of being kept on a vendor's servers as the price of admission. Shared documents and team workspaces sync AES-GCM encrypted.
The second difference is scope. Instead of a single editor, Ettex is 18 connected apps: Docs, Sheets, Slides, Notes, Forms, PDF, Mail, Chat and Calendar for everyday work, plus CRM, Invoices, Bookkeeping, E-signature, Boards, Records, a website builder, a team workspace and a developer API. They share one data layer, so an invoice links to a contact and a form feeds a record.
And there is no lock-in: everything imports and exports as DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, ODT, CSV and Markdown.
Ettex.cloud's answer:
Three practical reasons.
You keep your data. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 assume your work lives on their servers. Ettex stores it on your device and works with no connection at all โ a real desktop app for Windows and Linux, not a browser window.
One subscription instead of six. Docs, sheets, slides, mail, chat, calendar, CRM, invoicing, bookkeeping, e-signature, boards, records and a site builder are one product at $9 per user per month, and they are connected to each other rather than merely sold together.
You can leave. Import and export cover DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, ODT, CSV and Markdown, so nothing you create is trapped in a proprietary format.
Ettex.cloud's answer:
Small and medium businesses, startups, agencies, freelancers and nonprofit teams that need a full office toolkit but do not want their documents, client data and finances sitting on a large vendor's servers.
It fits particularly well for teams leaving Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for privacy or cost reasons, for people who work offline or on unreliable connections, and for anyone tired of paying separately for an editor, a mailbox, a CRM and an invoicing tool that do not talk to each other.
Ettex.cloud's answer:
The web app is React with TypeScript, built with Vite. The desktop app is Tauri, so the shipped binary is native rather than a bundled browser.
Storage is local-first: documents live on the device with an operation log, so offline edits merge instead of overwriting each other. Sync goes through a lightweight relay service written in TypeScript on Node; shared documents and team workspaces are encrypted with AES-GCM via the Web Crypto API, with the key carried in the invite link fragment.
Document import and export (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PDF, ODT, CSV, Markdown) is handled client-side, and the optional AI assistant can run locally in the browser through WebGPU.
Ettex.cloud's answer:
Ettex started from a simple irritation: every office suite worth using asked for the same thing up front โ put your documents on our servers, and trust us with them. That trade is easy to accept and very hard to undo, and it quietly turns your own files into something you rent access to.
The idea was to invert it. Build the suite local-first, so documents sit on your device and work with no connection, and let sync be an added convenience rather than the foundation. Once that base existed, the scope grew the way real work does: an editor needs a spreadsheet next to it, a spreadsheet needs an invoice, an invoice needs a contact, a contact needs mail. Eighteen apps later, they share one data layer instead of being stitched together with integrations.
The suite launched in 2026 and is available in English and Russian, on the web and as a desktop app for Windows and Linux.
Based on our record, CryptPad seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 93 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
It's always a good thing to have multiple players and I hope we can have actual EU-based alternatives, but I feel like this is less interesting as a project than _La Suite numรฉrique_ [1] developed by the French government or _CryptPad_ [2] developed by XWiki, a French company based in Paris. [1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ [2] https://cryptpad.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
This wouldn't address building an actual E2EE service. This is a hard issue. CryptPad [1] does this but it has strong limitations inherent to a fully E2EE system. (disclaimer: I work for the company which develop CryptPad, but I don't myself work on it) [1] https://cryptpad.org. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
For e2ee you might want to have a look at CryptPad (https://cryptpad.org). You can test it on the free instance https://cryptpad.fr You'll have plenty of doc types with full end to end encryption, including for your drive. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I'm looking for the same. Open source, self hosted, and end-to-end encrypted. I haven't found anything that really does all of this, but it seems like Cryptpad[0] and Peergos[1] are viable platforms upon which something like this could be built. Except for encryption, Atomic Data[2] seems like a really cool platform to build this on. [0] https://cryptpad.org/ [1] https://peergos.org/ [2] - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I see that they claim all of their apps and libraries are open source[0]. But they only link to the OpenPGP libraries they're using. Is this actually open source? Following the "Open Source" footer link[1], here they only link to the ProtonMail Github account with nothing mentioning ProtonDrive. And if it is actually open source, I'd love to see a comparison to CryptPad[2] > which is why weโve made all our apps... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
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