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 author's text in their own colour. There is also a chat box in the sidebar to allow meta communication.

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public
public
crowd
computer

• no software installation required (when using hosted service)
• free to use, as either a remotely hosted service or a self management system of personally owned hardware
• unlimited documents and users
• no need for user IDs or login


• no access control and documents can be edited by anyone
• only basic document formatting options

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