Best open-source alternatives to Google Workspace
Google's cloud productivity suite (Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Drive).
Google Workspace combines Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, and Drive in a browser-first collaborative suite used by many small and mid-sized organizations. Its real-time co-editing model set the standard for cloud productivity. Privacy concerns around scanning, data residency, and recurring per-user pricing drive teams toward self-hosted office and email stacks.
2 alternatives listed- GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall
Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management platform designed for people who want to control their media library without relying on a third-party cloud service. It provides a web interface and mobile apps for organizing, browsing, backing up, and sharing personal photo collections, with support for advanced features such as metadata search, facial recognition, albums, and public sharing. The project appears aimed at users who want a modern alternative to commercial photo storage services while keeping their data on infrastructure they manage. The README highlights mobile and web functionality, automatic backup behavior, offline support, and administrative user management, making it suitable for households, small groups, or anyone running a private media server.
Offline CapableMulti-UserDockerDocker ComposeFeatures:
- Upload and view photos and videos
- Auto backup
- Duplicate prevention
- Selective album backup
- Local device download
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Auth:oauthlocal - GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Core — Some Features Paid
TinyCld is a self-hosted workspace platform organized as an app shell plus separately installable feature packages. It is designed for users who want a modular alternative to a hosted productivity suite, with core capabilities such as mail, calendar, contacts, drive, text, calc, and import tooling assembled from sibling packages in a pnpm workspace. The project combines an Expo front end, PocketBase back end, and Go server wiring, with a generator that connects the installed packages into routes, seeds, migrations, and runtime configuration. It is aimed at developers or operators who want to assemble and run a customizable workspace locally or in a self-hosted deployment, with Docker-based delivery and a documented bootstrap flow for building a working workspace root.
DockerDocker ComposeBinarySourceFeatures:
- plugin-based feature packages
- calendar
- contacts
- drive
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What to look for in a Google Workspace alternative
Real-time multi-user editing is the hardest feature to replicate — most self-hosted office suites support it, but conflict resolution and offline behavior vary. Evaluate import/export fidelity for Google Docs/Sheets, since native formats do not exist outside Google. Email, calendar, and drive components are usually separate self-hosted projects, so plan for integrating distinct services rather than a single bundled suite.
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