Open-source Coda alternatives

AppFlowy is an open-source workspace that brings documents, wikis, project and task management and team collaboration into one app. It is presented as an alternative to Notion, and its topics also tag it as a Confluence alternative, with the emphasis on keeping control of your own data.

The client is built with Flutter and a Rust core, giving apps for macOS, Windows and Linux plus iOS and Android versions. Desktop builds can be downloaded directly or from channels such as Flathub and Snapcraft. AI features are part of the workspace, and a public roadmap and active forum let users propose features. Translations are contributed through JSON files and tools such as inlang.

The project is AGPL-3.0 licensed and has documentation for self-hosting the server side, so organizations can keep content on their own infrastructure. A hosted version is available through appflowy.com for people who do not want to run servers. It suits teams looking for a Notion-style workspace with a privacy-first stance.

Colanode is an all-in-one collaboration platform built around data privacy and control. It combines real-time chat, rich-text pages for documents, wikis and notes, customizable databases and file management in one workspace, positioned as an open-source alternative to Slack and Notion.

It has a client app, available on the web and as an Electron desktop app, and a self-hosted server. One app can connect to several servers, each holding one or more workspaces for different teams or projects. Databases support custom fields and table, kanban and calendar views. The local-first design writes every change to a local SQLite database first and syncs it in the background, so reads are immediate and people can keep working when offline.

The topics reference CRDTs and Yjs for real-time collaboration. Colanode is written in TypeScript and licensed under Apache-2.0, and because you run the server yourself you decide where the data is stored. It suits individuals, small projects and larger teams that want to avoid depending on a hosted vendor.