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CryptPad is a privacy-first collaboration suite — documents, spreadsheets, presentations, kanban, polls, all with end-to-end encryption. The server has zero access to user content. Originally developed by XWiki SAS in France, with strong privacy guarantees.
CryptPad is a privacy-first collaboration suite — documents, spreadsheets, presentations, kanban, polls, all with end-to-end encryption. The server has zero access to user content. Originally developed by XWiki SAS in France, with strong privacy guarantees.
For privacy activists, journalists, and orgs handling highly sensitive collaborative documents, CryptPad's E2E encryption is the gold standard.
Concrete scenarios where teams pick CryptPad over the SaaS alternative.
no plaintext on the server
multi-user real-time
journalism, legal, healthcare, activism
no account required
pads, sheets, presentations, kanban, polls
If your team profile matches one of these, CryptPad is a strong fit out of the box.
handling sensitive collaborative content
with source-protection requirements
working on confidential matters
under HIPAA collaborative document constraints
demonstrating E2EE-capable collaboration
When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which CryptPad consistently lands above the alternatives.
The stack you'll plug CryptPad into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.
cryptpad/cryptpad:v5.7 (release-tagged)Operational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.
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