Best Offline-First Office Suites for self-hosting

The 4 best Offline-First office suites you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

At a glance

AppDeploy effortDifficultyMin. RAMLicense★ Stars
drawDBUnder-an-hour setupEasy128 MBAGPL-3.039,987
ConvertXUnder-an-hour setupEasy512 MBAGPL-3.019,133
Calligra SuiteRead-the-docs projectMedium512 MBGPL-2.0300
KoboToolboxUnder-an-hour setupHard4,096 MBAGPL-3.0185

Quick picks

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Offline-First within the office suites category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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