Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Sandstorm
- Cloudron

Rustpad is described as 'Efficient and minimal open-source collaborative text editor based on the operational transformation algorithm. It lets users collaborate in real time while writing code in their browser. Rustpad is completely self-hosted and fits in a tiny Docker image, no database' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are eight alternatives to Rustpad for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS, Heroku and Cloudron apps. The best Rustpad alternative is Etherpad, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rustpad are HackMD, collabedit, Plunker and CodeBunk.
Etherpad is a highly customizable Open Source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.

HackMD is a browser-based, real-time collaborative markdown editor. It was inspired by hackpad but focuses more on speed and flexibility.


Real-time, browser based, collaborative text editor. It supports syntax highlighting for several programming languages, has integrated chat, requires no sign up and is very simple to use.

Plunker is an online community for creating, collaborating on and sharing your web development ideas.

CodeBunk provides a Realtime Collaborative Editor with Compile/Run. CodeBunk is an Online Compiler/Interpreter for PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Lua, Javascript, C, C++. CodeBunk also has Peer-to-Peer Video/Audio chat facility.





Squad is a collaborative web-based code editor with one goal: to make it easy to open, edit, and share code in real time. Our powerful, secure tools include syntax highlighting, cloud hosting, a searchable chat log, and multiple syntaxes.
