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Gobby

Edit text files collaboratively.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: multi-user support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Gobby is a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Gobby is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (ISC) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms. It uses GTK+ as its windowing toolkit and thus integrates nicely into the GNOME desktop environment.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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