FOSS online equivalent to Google Docs?
FOSS online equivalent to Google Docs?
Hi everyone. Me and a friend wanted to work on an online document together yet didn't want to use Google Docs. Are there services that allow us to work together? Thank you.
I appreciate everyone in this thread giving actually useful replies instead of pointing out that OP could have posted in a more suitable community.
Yeah, I guess I could've, but I was looking for something to use on Android. I could've emphasized on that better, thank you.
@trippingonthewire
Nextcloud and Collabora in combination. If you dont want to host your own nextcloud, there are providers offering a hosted nextcloud with collabora. editing spreadsheets from a mobile device (tablet, smartphone) does not work very smoothly, the rest is great, also collaborative file editing.@vanilla_thunder @trippingonthewire Nextcloud with their own Text editior works very well on mobiles as long as you only edit text documents with standard formatting, images etc
Collabora.
If you like compatibility with MS Office, Onlyoffice.
I think Nextcloud has some collaborative office stuff
Yes it does, but it is not part of nextcloud itself, they require you to host a collabora CODE server. It works quite well but it's a bit of a hassle to set up
Etherpad is my personal recommendation.
@trippingonthewire There is also Hedgedoc hedgedoc.org/
Hedgedoc / codimd. Collaborative markdown.
Etherpad works, but it's not markdown.
My friends and I use Obsidian and Syncthing. It's a bit tricky if you try to edit simultaneously but it works if you edit at different times.
Edit: not foss
Obsidian is closed source.
Oh fuck, sorry, you're right
Infomaniak kdrive is open source*
- = it's using onlyoffice web version + their desktop clients and mobile clients, which is AGPL 3 but it's not really a community effort like LibreOffice, rather a commercial product
I think framasoft also has an option for a google docs alternative! They're the folks who made peertube
What kind of formatting do you need? Something no too complex that is markdown-based would be enough?
Try Typst! It's quite awesome! I wrote my thesis with it :)
Google Docs is really the best-in-class product in this space by a long shot. I haven't heard of any good FOSS options and Word online is unstable and Microsoft which isn't any better.