🍃 Ethersync

Ethersync enables real-time co-editing of local text files. You can use it for pair programming or note-taking, for example! Think Google Docs, but from the comfort of your favorite text editor!

[!CAUTION] The project is under active development right now. Everything might change, break, or move around quickly.

Features

• 👥 Real-time collaborative text editing
• 📍 See other people's cursors
• 🗃️ Work on entire projects
• 🛠️ Sync changes done by text editors and external tools
• ✒️ Local-first: You always have full access, even offline
• 🇳 Fully-featured Neovim plugin
• 🪟 VS Code plugin
• 🧩 Simple protocol for writing new editor plugins
• 🌐 Peer-to-peer connections, no need for a server
• 🔒 Encrypted connections secured by a shared password

Documentation

Learn how to install, use, and understand Ethersync in the documentation.

Development

If you're interested in building new editor plugins, read the specification for the daemon-editor protocol.

For more information about Ethersync's design, refer to the list of decision records.

Sponsors

Thanks to NLNet for funding this project through the NGI0 Core Fund.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.