Cool Innovation #0030. Google Docs for paranoids: Cryptpad.
2 min readDec 31, 2020
Not everyone trusts Google, specially not the people who care about the privacy of their data.
CryptPad is an amazing open-source online suite for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, boards, and more. The best part is that all the documents are encrypted.
Considering it as a suite of office tools and cloud services, it packs in a lot of features. Here they are:
- Offers Rich Text editor for document creation/editing
- Offers the ability to create and manage Spreadsheet
- Provides a separate code editor with color scheme
- Ability to create a presentation
- Easily create a private or public poll
- Offers a Kanban board editor
- Provides a whiteboard to take notes or anything you’d need
- Password protection for your files/documents
- Self-destruction functionality for your documents
- Ability to make the document public using link sharing or keep it restricted
- Control the permissions of your document before sharing it to someone
- Easily embed the pad anywhere using iframe snippet
- Collaboration options to chat/edit documents
- Client-side encryption (Server does not know the contents of your documents)
Enjoy, you paranoid.
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