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Workspace 5.5/10

End-to-end-encrypted, open-source online office suite with real-time collaboration and a free 1 GB encrypted drive.

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CryptPad scores 5.5/10 for free value in Workspace. The main constraint: Free registered account on cryptpad.fr gives 1 GB of end-to-end-encrypted storage with full access to every app (docs, sheets, slides, code/markdown, kanban, forms, whiteboard, calendar), real-time collaboration, teams, and shared folders, with per-file uploads capped at 25 MB.

Category Workspace Kind E2E-encrypted office suite Caveats Free quota is only 1 GB and per-file uploads are limited to 25 MB (150 MB requires a paid plan); documents you store can be evicted after ~3 months of inactivity, and there is no password recovery (lose your password and the encrypted data is gone). Paid plans run €5–€100/month for 5–50 GB. Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

5.5 / 10
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Overall 5.5/10
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Collab 5.2/10
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Content 4.8/10
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Auto 7.1/10
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What you get

End-to-end encrypted: the server and operator cannot read your documents, and no email is required to register

Full collaborative office suite — rich-text docs, spreadsheets, presentations, code/markdown, kanban, forms, whiteboard, and calendar — with real-time multi-user editing

Fully open-source (AGPL) and self-hostable if you outgrow the hosted instance

Hosted in France/EU by XWiki SAS with no credit card needed for the free tier

Gotchas

  • 1 GB encrypted storage

    Free registered accounts on cryptpad.fr get 1 GB of total encrypted drive storage; more (5–50 GB) requires a paid plan at €5–€100/month.

  • 25 MB per-file upload limit

    Registered (non-premium) users on cryptpad.fr can upload files of up to 25 MB each; the increased 150 MB upload limit is a paid-plan benefit.

  • Documents evicted after ~3 months of inactivity

    Documents are removed after 3 months of inactivity (counted per document); registered users get permanent storage only for documents they keep active/pinned in their CryptDrive.

  • Increased upload size is paid-only

    The higher 150 MB per-file upload limit is reserved for paid subscribers; the free tier is capped at 25 MB per file.

  • Priority support is paid-only

    The free account is community/best-effort support; guaranteed response times and priority support come with paid and enterprise plans.

  • Shared public instance

    cryptpad.fr is a shared public instance; performance depends on overall load and the operator may apply fair-use throttling. Heavier/guaranteed-resource use points to self-hosting or a paid/enterprise instance.

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Open service Source ← All Workspace

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