Processing
End-to-end encrypted cloud
How product activity is processed.
INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE
CryptPad
An open-source suite for end-to-end encrypted collaborative documents, spreadsheets, forms, whiteboards and shared drives.
- Web · Self-hosted
- End-to-end encrypted cloud
- Open source
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Category
- PDF and documents
Privacy at a glance
A quick view of the dimensions most useful for comparing this product. Unconfirmed facts stay explicitly unconfirmed.
Identity
Optional account
Whether an account is needed to use it.
Tracking
Not confirmed
Reported analytics and tracking posture.
Ownership & source
Open source
Availability of the product source code.
Offline support
Not confirmed
Whether core use can continue offline.
Self-hosting
Yes
Whether you can run it on your own infrastructure.
What to know
Why it stands out
- Document content is encrypted in the browser, and CryptPad states that the server cannot read it.
- The suite supports accountless use, encrypted collaboration, export and a fully open-source self-hosted deployment.
Trade-offs
- Anyone who receives a document capability link may gain its associated access unless additional access controls or safe-link settings are used.
- Public and self-hosted instances can have different logging, account, retention, policy and administration practices even though document content remains encrypted.
Best for
Teams that need real-time collaborative documents without giving the hosting provider routine access to document contents.
Consider another option when
Organizations requiring conventional server-side indexing, content inspection or uniform policy guarantees across arbitrary public instances.
Technical details
Complete privacy-profile dimensions, grouped for easier review. Each value is retained from the catalogue record.
4 groups · 18 dimensions
- Processing
- End-to-end encrypted cloud
- Storage
- Encrypted cloud
- Offline support
- Not confirmed
- Self-hosting
- Yes
- Data export
- Yes
- Data deletion
- Yes
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Evidence
5 public sources collected
- About CryptPadcryptpad.org · Product page · browser-side encryption, open-source status, collaboration and business model
- CryptPad Securitydocs.cryptpad.org · Documentation · end-to-end encryption boundaries and security guidance
- Share and accessdocs.cryptpad.org · Documentation · capability links, permissions and sharing behavior
Review status: ListedLast reviewed: Not yet reviewedCatalogue updated: 22 Jul 2026
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