About Zoho Workplace
Zoho Workplace is a commercial productivity and collaboration suite from Zoho that brings mail, chat, files, an office suite and meetings into one place. The vendor presents it as one combined window for email and collaboration, and as a way to avoid disconnected apps and costly AI add-ons.
Unified communication covers email, conferencing, calling, voice and team messaging on any device, while unified collaboration gives people a shared space where they create, distribute and organize files, tasks and calendars with document, spreadsheet and presentation editors. Employee engagement tools, drawn from Zoho Connect, include town halls, company forums, live events and peer recognition, and file sharing is based on WorkDrive.
Zoho Workplace is a hosted service sold through a get-started flow and sales contact, with a pricing page and an interactive demo. It suits organizations that want one vendor for email, documents and chat instead of combining several products.
Key features
- Business email and team chat
- Video conferencing and calling
- Document, spreadsheet and presentation editors
- File sharing with WorkDrive
- Tasks and shared calendars
- Company forums and town halls
Good fit for
- →Small businesses needing an all-in-one suite
- →Remote teams combining chat and meetings
- →Companies replacing separate email and office tools
- Tags
- productivity-suite
- collaboration
- chat
- zoho
- documents
- saas
Zoho Workplace: questions and answers
- What is Zoho Workplace used for?
- Zoho Workplace is a business suite combining email, chat, meetings, file storage and office editors, with tools for company communication and engagement. It is a good fit for small businesses needing an all-in-one suite, remote teams combining chat and meetings, and companies replacing separate email and office tools.
- Is Zoho Workplace free?
- Yes. Zoho Workplace has a free plan, and paid plans start at $3 per seat per month. A free trial is also available.
- Is Zoho Workplace open source?
- No. Zoho Workplace is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Zoho Workplace include CryptPad and ONLYOFFICE Groups.
- What are some alternatives to Zoho Workplace?
- Zoho Workplace competes with Google Workspace and WPS Office. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Zoho Workplace alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Zoho Workplace
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CryptPad
Productivity
Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
AGPL-3.0vs Google Docs★ 8k
ONLYOFFICE Groups
Productivity
Free open source office suite with business productivity tools: document and project manag
Apache-2.0vs Zoho Workplace★ 3.2k
Macro
Productivity
Macro is a unified workspace for teams: email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, calls, and CRM —
AGPL-3.0vs Slack★ 4.5k
Collabora Online
Productivity
Issue tracker only. Active development is on Gerrit at https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/
OSSvs Microsoft 365★ 3.4k
Univer
Productivity
The Office Harness for AI Agents — Spreadsheets, Docs, Slides, Canvas, Relational Tables,
Apache-2.0vs Microsoft Excel★ 22k
Linkwarden
Productivity
Collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters. Open-source, self-hostable bookm
AGPL-3.0vs Raindrop.io★ 20k
SaaS alternatives to Zoho Workplace
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Google Workspace
Productivity
Cloud suite with email, docs, calendar, meetings and storage for businesses
SaaS
WPS Office
Productivity
Office suite with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation apps
SaaS
Microsoft 365
Productivity
Subscription suite bundling Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and cloud storage
SaaS
SoftMaker Office
Productivity
Office suite with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation apps
SaaS
Microsoft Excel
Productivity
Spreadsheet application with formulas, pivot tables, charts and Power Query
SaaS
Google Docs
Docs & Wikis
Google Docs is Google's browser-based word processor for writing and co-editing documents in real time, part of Google Workspace.
SaaS

