Docs (La Suite numérique)
Sovereign collaborative document editor
docs.numerique.gouv.fr- Price
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT license; self-host it yourself or use a government-run instance at no charge.
- Works on
- Web
- Based in
- France / Germany
- Source code
- Open source
Docs is a collaborative document and wiki editor built jointly by the French government's DINUM and Germany's ZenDiS digital agencies as a sovereign alternative to Google Docs and Notion. It offers real-time co-editing, a clean block-based writing interface, offline support, and granular sharing, built on Django and React. Designed for public servants, it is fully self-hostable so organizations keep their data on their own infrastructure. It is not end-to-end encrypted and privacy rests on controlling where it runs. The code is open source under the permissive MIT license and developed openly on GitHub.
Strengths
- Backed by the French and German governments as a Google Docs alternative
- Real-time collaboration, offline editing, and clean block-based writing
- Permissive MIT license and fully self-hostable
Considerations
- Not end-to-end encrypted
- Self-hosting needs technical setup; hosted instances target public agencies
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