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

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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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collaborative software Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them". As re ...
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Open source software

The following are

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applications for collaboration:

Standard client–server software

* Access Grid, for audio and video-based collaboration *

Axigen Axigen is a Linux, Windows, and Docker mail server with groupware and collaboration functionalities. It supports SMTP, IMAP, POP3, and webmail services, and includes features such as an integrated mailing list server, Antivirus and Antispam ...

Citadel/UX Citadel/UX (typically referred to simply as "Citadel") is a collaboration suite (messaging and groupware) that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is ...

, with support for native groupware clients (

Kontact Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite developed by KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email. It offers a number of inter-changeable graphical UIs (KMail, KAddressBook, Akregator ...

Novell Evolution GNOME Evolution (formerly Novell Evolution and Ximian Evolution, prior to Novell's 2003 acquisition of Ximian) is the official personal information manager for GNOME. It has been an official part of GNOME since Evolution 2.0 was included with ...

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 (

) and web interface * Group-Office groupware and CRM *

Kolab Kolab is a free and open source groupware suite. It consists of the Kolab server and a wide variety of Kolab clients, including KDE PIM-Suite Kontact, Roundcube web frontend, Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Lightning with SyncKolab extensio ...

, various native PIM clients * Kopano * OpenGroupware.org * phpGroupWare *

Scalix Scalix is an e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux, licensed under the Scalix Public License (SPL). The software provides e-mail, group calendaring and other collaborative software, which are standard in groupware. It can be also be ac ...

* SOGo, integrated email, calendaring with Apple iCal, Mozilla Thunderbird and native Outlook compatibility *

Teambox Redbooth (formerly Teambox) is a web-based workplace collaboration tool and communication platform. History Redbooth, previously known as Teambox Technologies S.L., who developed Teambox, was founded in 2008 and continued to serve commercial and ...

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-style project management software with focus on GTD task management and conversations. (Only V3 and prior are open-source.) * Zarafa *

Zentyal Zentyal (previously known as eBox Platform) is an open source email and groupware solution based on Ubuntu Linux. Zentyal used to implement Microsoft Exchange Server protocols on top of standard open source components (such as Dovecot, Postf ...

, with support for native groupware clients (

) 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 ...

Groupware: Web-based software

Bricolage In the arts, ''bricolage'' ( French for "DIY" or "do-it-yourself projects") is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work constructed using mixed media. The term ''bricolage'' ...

, content management system * BigBlueButton, Web meetings *

Collabora Online Collabora Online is an open source online office suite that can be integrated with any web application, it is developed by Collabora Productivity, a division of Collabora. Collabora Online has LibreOffice at its core and allows for collaborativ ...

, Enterprise-ready edition of LibreOffice enabling real-time collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics *

DotNetNuke DNN Platform (formerly DotNetNuke) is a web content management system and web application framework based on the .NET Framework. It is open source and part of the .Net Foundation. DNN is written in C#, though it existed for many years as a VB.N ...

, 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 Etherpad (previously known as EtherPad) is an open-source, web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each ...

, collaborative drafting with chat * Feng Office Community Edition *

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 *

Jumper 2.0 ApexKB (formerly Jumper), is a discontinued free and open-source script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher. It was publicly announced on 29 ...

, collaborative search engine and knowledge management platform *

Groupware, integrated Roundcube web frontend * Kune, collaborative federated social network, based on

Apache Wave Google Wave, later known as Apache Wave, was a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Originally developed by Google and announced on May 28, 2009, it was renamed to ''Apache Wave'' when the project was adopted by the Ap ...

* Loomio, 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 MediaWiki ...

, 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 Onl ...

, 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 marke ...

Community Server, available for Microsoft and Linux *

OpenBroadcaster OpenBroadcaster is a web-based, open-source system to run community radio and television broadcast transmitters with a simple web interface. History The initial concept was to develop a web based radio system to run emergency messages and p ...

LPFM IPTV broadcast automation tools * Overleaf for creating

LaTeX Latex is an emulsion (stable dispersion) of polymer microparticles in water. Latexes are found in nature, but synthetic latexes are common as well. In nature, latex is found as a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants (angiosperms ...

documents * phpGroupWare *

Simple Groupware Simple Groupware is a groupware package written in PHP. It uses the MySQL database (version 4 or higher). It contains a calendar system, an email client, an inventory system, and a number of other features. Simple Groupware is free software releas ...

* 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 ser ...

* Tonido, 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 *

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 CEITON is a web-based software system for facilitating and automating business processes such as planning, scheduling, and payroll using workflow technologies. The system is used by several media companies such as MDR, Yle, RAI, Red Bull Media ...

, 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 Clarizen, Inc. is a project management software and collaborative work management company. Clarizen uses a software as a service business model. Clarizen's features include attaching CAD drawings to a project, moving between the project view a ...

, online on-demand, collaborative project execution software *

dotProject dotProject is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language project management application. It is free and open source software, and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers. History dotProject was originally developed by Will Ez ...

* Easy Projects * EGroupware, is free open source groupware software intended for businesses from small to enterprises * Feng Office Community Edition * Fle3 *

Gitea Gitea () is a forge software package for hosting software development version control using Git as well as other collaborative features like bug tracking, code review, kanban boards, tickets, and wikis. It supports self-hosting but also pr ...

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 InLoox, Inc. is a company that develops and sells software for project planning, resource management, project document management, mind mapping, and project accounting. InLoox, Inc. is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but the company hea ...

, 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 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 – s ...

(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. *

TeamLab 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 marke ...

, 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. Tra ...

, has wiki, document management, ticket system and version control system *

Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island. TeamPage is one of the first products in the enterprise blog and wiki market, with Traction release 1.0 sh ...

integrated action tracking, wiki, live status, notification, and streams organized by person, task, project, and shared permissioned space. *

web2project web2project is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language Project Management application. It is an open-source software and free for any uses and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers. web2project, as collaborative softwar ...

, a dotproject fork with active current development and some innovations: subprojects, etc. *

WiserEarth Wiser.org, formerly WiserEarth.org, was a user-generated online community space for the social and environmental movement. As one of the social networks for environmental sustainability and social change, Wiser.org was the primary initiative of th ...

, 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 File ...

, 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 Croquet OS is a web-based operating system for creating three-dimensional apps with multi-user functionalities that run simultaneously on any device. Croquet can be used for communication, online gaming environments such as massively multipla ...

, 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 doc ...

, 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. * Tid ...

*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 includ ...

Collaborative development environment A collaborative development environment (CDE) is an online meeting space where a software development project's stakeholders can work together, no matter what time zone or region they are in, to discuss, document, and produce project deliverables. ...

* 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 Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them". As re ... 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 ...
features

Comparison of
collaborative software Collaborative software or groupware is application software designed to help people working on a common task to attain their goals. One of the earliest definitions of groupware is "intentional group processes plus software to support them". As re ...
features