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Fidus Writer

an online collaborative editor for academics

Office Suites ★ 568 stars Medium setup GPL-3.0-only

an online collaborative editor for academics.

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0-only license
  • Written in JavaScript
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 50 MB RAM

Is Fidus Writer secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Fidus Writer's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Fidus Writer replaces

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