Docs (La Suite)

A real-time collaborative editor for team knowledge, built by the French and German governments as an open alternative to Notion and Google Docs.

17k stars, 686 forks Python On GitHub since January 2024

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What is Docs (La Suite)?

Docs lets teams write together in real time, structure documents into a knowledge base and share them with fine-grained access. It is part of La Suite numérique, a joint initiative of the French government's digital agency DINUM and Germany's ZenDiS, with the Netherlands joining. The block-based editor supports offline editing, exports to .docx, .odt and PDF, and has optional AI writing helpers that can use your own model. Deployment is aimed at organizations: Kubernetes with the included Helm chart, or Docker Compose.

Good fit if

  • You work in the public sector or need a sovereign alternative to US cloud suites.
  • You want a modern collaborative editor under a permissive license.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want a light install: the development compose file runs about 19 services, including PostgreSQL, Redis and MinIO. Docmost is simpler.
  • You want a personal notes app: Joplin or Memos.

Before you adopt it

Docs is MIT-licensed, with no paid parts, and developed by public agencies rather than a company, which makes its roadmap public and its funding independent of sales.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Docs (La Suite) health: is it still maintained?

80 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    407 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 30 October 2026.
    30 / 30
  • Contributors
    15 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 45% of them.
    16 / 20
  • Releases
    15 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v6.0.4, on 26 October 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Too few recent issues from outside the team to measure, so this part gets a neutral score.
    10 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Docs (La Suite) license: is it open source?

Docs (La Suite) uses MIT, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. January 2024First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayMIT.

How to run Docs (La Suite) yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
compose.yml: 19 services (postgres, redis, minio, proxy)
Setup effort
4 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
16 languages

Install instructions: docs.la-suite.eu or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Docs (La Suite)

Is Docs (La Suite) open source?

Yes. Docs (La Suite) is published under MIT, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is Docs (La Suite) still maintained?

Its health score is 80 of 100 (actively developed). It had 407 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 30 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 26 October 2026.

How do I run Docs (La Suite)?

You can run it with Docker, on Kubernetes with the Helm chart in the repository. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Docs (La Suite)?

Close alternatives in the Notes & knowledge bases category include Docmost, Trilium Notes, Notesnook.