Office docs alternatives

Alternatives to: Google Docs, Microsoft 365, Notion

Even outside of work you're going to need documents of some sort. Perhaps just to stay organised, perhaps to share with family.

And like everything else in your life, there's no reason that should be shared with the data-hungry Big Tech beast. It's none of their business.

There are several options here for full office suite alternatives and two that are closer in function to Notion.

App name	Open Source	Structure; Business model	Features	Country of origin	Link
LibreOffice	Yes	Free Open Source	Complete suite of office apps; Great 'Draw' app for flow charts; Familiar excel-style shortcuts	Open Source	LibreOffice.org
CryptPad	Yes	Nonprofit; Free with certain public instance / paid on flagship French server	Encrypted; All types of docs, even kanban and forms	France	CryptPad.org
OnlyOffice	Yes	Private company; Free if self-hosted / Paid hosted (discounts for nonprofits)	Good collaboration features on hosted DocSpace; Free offline doc editing apps	Latvia	OnlyOffice.com
Collabora Online	Yes	Free if self hosted; Paid via partner hosts	LibreOffice apps but with collaboration features	UK	Collaboraonline.com
Fibery	No	Private company; Freemium	Combination of Notion and Airtable features	Poland	Fibery.io
Nuclino	No	Private company; Freemium	Notion alternative	Germany	Nuclino.com

We use LibreOffice for day to day docs, and are looking into using Cryptpad.