This list is divided into proprietary or free software, and open source software, with several comparison tables of different product and vendor characteristics. It also includes a section of project collaboration software, which is a standard feature in collaboration platforms.

Collaborative software

Comparison of notable software

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

General Information

Comparison of
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Comparison of collaborative software features

Comparison of targets

Open source software

The following are

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applications for collaboration:

Standard client–server software

Access Grid Access Grid is a collection of resources and technologies that enables large format audio and video based collaboration between groups of people in different locations. The Access Grid is an ensemble of resources, including multimedia large-format ...

, for audio and video-based collaboration * Axigen * Citadel/UX, with support for native groupware clients ( Kontact, Novell Evolution,

Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 software suites. Though primarily an email client, Outlook also includes such functions as Calen ...

) and web interface * Cyn.in * EGroupware, with support for native groupware clients ( Kontact, Novell Evolution,

) and web interface * Group-Office groupware and CRM * Kolab, various native PIM clients * Kopano * OpenGroupware.org * phpGroupWare * Scalix * SOGo, integrated email, calendaring with Apple iCal, Mozilla Thunderbird and native Outlook compatibility * Teambox, Basecamp-style project management software with focus on GTD task management and conversations. (Only V3 and prior are open-source.) * Zarafa * Zentyal, with support for native groupware clients ( Kontact, Novell Evolution) natively for

and web interface *

Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration, formerly known as the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) before 2019, is a collaborative software suite that includes an email server and a web client. Zimbra was initially developed by LiquidSys, which changed their name ...

Zulip Zulip is an open source chat and collaborative software created by Jeff Arnold, Waseem Daher, Jessica McKellar, and Tim Abbott in 2012. Today, it is one of the free and open source alternatives to Slack, with over 40,000 commits contributed by 6 ...

Groupware: Web-based software

* Axigen *

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, content management system *

BigBlueButton BigBlueButton is an open source (except for some versions of its database software) virtual classroom application designed for online education. Accessed most commonly through a variety of Learning Management Systems, the application provide ...

, Web meetings * Collabora Online, Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice enabling real-time collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics * DotNetNuke, also called DNN: module-based, evolved from ASP 1.0 demo applications * EGroupware, a free open source groupware software intended for businesses from small to enterprises * EtherPad, collaborative drafting with chat *

Feng Office Community Edition Feng Office Community Edition (formerly ''OpenGoo'') is an open-source collaboration platform developed and supported by Feng Office and the OpenGoo community. It is a fully featured online office suite with a similar set of features as other ...

FusionForge GForge is a commercial service originally based on the Alexandria software behind SourceForge, a web-based project management and collaboration system which was licensed under the GPL. Open source versions of the GForge code were released from 20 ...

, has wiki, forums, mailing lists, FTP, SSH, subdomains, hosting, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, task management * Group-Office, Web-based groupware for sharing calendars, files, e-mail, CRM, Projects, Mobile Synchronization and much more. * Horde * HumHub a free and open-source enterprise social network solution *

IceWarp Server IceWarp, Inc. is a software company located in Prague, Czech Republic. It develops IceWarp Mail Server, an email, messaging and collaboration service for small, medium and enterprise level businesses. IceWarp has offices in the United States, Germ ...

* Jumper 2.0, collaborative search engine and knowledge management platform * Kolab Groupware, integrated Roundcube web frontend * Kune, collaborative federated social network, based on Apache Wave *

Loomio Loomio is decision-making software and web service designed to assist groups with collaborative, consensus-focused decision-making processes. It is a free software web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up proposals. As the ...

, for making decisions together (AGPL). *

MediaWiki MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It is used on Wikipedia and almost all other Wikimedia websites, including Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata; these sites define a large part of the requirement set for Media ...

, which provides core content management and integrates with many other tools via extensions *

Nextcloud Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. Nextcloud provides functionally similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive when used with integrated office suite solutions Collabora Online or Only ...

, file hosting service, functionally similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive when used with its integrated office suite solutions Collabora Online or OnlyOffice *

OnlyOffice OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab), stylized as ONLYOFFICE, is a free software office suite developed by Ascensio System SIA, a subsidiary of "New Communication Technologies", a company from Russia, but headquartered in Riga, Latvia. In Russian mark ...

Community Server, available for Microsoft and Linux * OpenBroadcaster LPFM IPTV broadcast automation tools *

Overleaf Overleaf is a collaborative cloud-based LaTeX editor used for writing, editing and publishing scientific documents. It partners with a wide range of scientific publishers to provide official journal LaTeX templates, and direct submission links. ...

for creating

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documents * phpGroupWare * Simple Groupware * SOGo, integrated email, calendaring with Apple iCal, Mozilla Thunderbird and native Outlook compatibility *

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware or simply Tiki, originally known as TikiWiki, is a free and open source Wiki-based content management system and online office suite written primarily in PHP and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LG ...

, has wiki, forums, calendar, ticket system, workflow engine *

Tine 2.0 Tine 2.0 is an open-source business software package covering the software categories groupware and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), released under the terms of the agpl license. Tine 2.0 is platform independent and implemented as a serv ...

Tonido Tonido is remote access and home server software for network-attached storage. Once installed on a computer, Tonido software makes that computer's files available remotely via the internet through the web browser or through native mobile apps. Th ...

, free collaborative software with workspace synchronizing, Web access from personal desktop; cross-platform * Zarafa, full MAPI MS Exchange replacement for Linux, GPL+proprietary * Kopano, full MAPI MS Exchange replacement for Linux, GPL+proprietary * Zentyal *

Other

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, enterprise content management system: document management, workflow, and portal * Drupal Framework, open source content management framework: document management, web pages, attachments, forums, photos, social profiles, collaboration tools * Liferay Enterprise Portal, open source enterprise portal: document management, wiki, social tools, workflow * LogicalDOC, document management system: document management, workflow * Nuxeo EP, enterprise content management system: document management, workflow *

OpenKM OpenKM is a document management system that provides a web interface for managing nonspecific files. It has a Free/Libre Community Edition, and a proprietary Enterprise Edition. OpenKM includes a content repository, Lucene indexing, and jBPM work ...

, open source document management system: document management

Project collaboration software

Web-based software

* Ceiton, workflow-based project management with Gantt chart, scheduling calendar and time-tracking * Central Desktop, has project management, wiki, file upload, review and approve, calendar, document management * Clarizen, online on-demand, collaborative project execution software * dotProject *

Easy Projects Easy Projects is a suite of project management software developed by Toronto-based Logic Software. As an example of web based project management software, Easy Projects is designed to enable online project management via a browser, rather than manu ...

* EGroupware, is free open source groupware software intended for businesses from small to enterprises *

* Fle3 * Gitea *

GitLab GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package which can develop, secure, and operate software. The open source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Dutch developer ...

* Group-Office, Web-based groupware for sharing calendars, files, e-mail, CRM, Projects, Mobile Synchronization and much more. * GroveSite, online collaboration, project and document management; online relational database * Horde * InLoox, web-based project management and collaboration software with Outlook integration * LiquidPlanner, web-based project management and collaboration software * Mindquarry, has document synchronizing, wiki, task management *

PBworks PBworks (formerly PBwiki) is a commercial real-time collaborative editing (RTCE) system created by David Weekly, with Ramit Sethi and Nathan Schmidt, who joined shortly thereafter as co-founders. Based in San Mateo, California, United States, t ...

is a commercial real-time collaborative editing (RTCE) system * phpGroupWare, has a project collaboration module *

Plone Plone is a free and open source content management system (CMS) built on top of the Zope application server. Plone is positioned as an enterprise CMS and is commonly used for intranets and as part of the web presence of large organizations. Hi ...

, content management * project.net * Projectplace, full suite of collaborative project tools *

Redmine Redmine is a free and open source, web-based project management and issue tracking tool. It allows users to manage multiple projects and associated subprojects. It features per project wikis and forums, time tracking, and flexible, role-based acc ...

, for software projects includes issue tracking, wiki, basic file and document management with hooks to major version control systems: SVN, Git, etc. * Simple Groupware * TeamLab, has forums, blogs, bookmarks, wiki, task management, instant messaging, mobile version, CRM, online document editors *

Trac Trac is an open-source, web-based project management and bug tracking system. It has been adopted by a variety of organizations for use as a bug tracking system for both free and open-source software and proprietary projects and products. Tr ...

, has wiki, document management, ticket system and version control system * Traction TeamPage integrated action tracking, wiki, live status, notification, and streams organized by person, task, project, and shared permissioned space. * web2project, a dotproject fork with active current development and some innovations: subprojects, etc. * WiserEarth, social network and database that include an open-source Groupware (closed) *

Wrike Wrike, Inc. is an American project management application service provider based in San Jose, California. Wrike also has offices in Dallas, Tallinn, Nicosia, Dublin, Tokyo, Melbourne and Prague. History Wrike was founded in 2006 by Andrew Fil ...

, interactive web-based project management software and tools for remote collaboration * Zoho Projects, a web-based project management software with collaboration features such as Interactive Feeds, Chat, Calendar, Forum, Wiki Pages and shared Document management

Other

* Croquet project, collaborative virtual environment *

Open Wonderland Open Wonderland (originally Project Wonderland) is a Java open-source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and do ...

, open source Java toolkit to make collaborative 3D virtual worlds *Wiki engines: see

List of wiki software Standard wiki programs, by programming language JavaScript-based * Lively Wiki is based on Lively Kernel and combines features of wikis and development environments. Users can create and edit application behavior and other content. * Tiddl ...

*Realtime editors: see

Collaborative real-time editor A collaborative real-time editor is a type of collaborative software or web application which enables real-time collaborative editing, simultaneous editing, or live editing of the same digital document, computer file or cloud-stored data – suc ...

Revision control In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs, documents, large web sites, or other collections o ...

for software engineering projects: see

Comparison of revision control software In software development, version control is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs or other collections of information such that revisions have a logical and consistent organization. The following tables inclu ...

* Collaborative development environment * Tools for collaborative writing such as

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's wiki-like git-managed authoring platform ''Atlas''

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Collaborative software

Comparison of notable software

General Information

Comparison of unified communications Unified communications (UC) is a business and marketing concept describing the integration of enterprise communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, voice (including IP telephony), mobility features (including e ... features

Comparison of collaborative software features

Comparison of targets

Open source software

Standard client–server software

Groupware: Web-based software

Other

Project collaboration software

Web-based software

Other

Comparison

See also

References

Comparison of
unified communications Unified communications (UC) is a business and marketing concept describing the integration of enterprise communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, voice (including IP telephony), mobility features (including e ...
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