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leafdesk

Open-source workspace of pages, databases, team messages and your email, with realtime collaboration, AI chat and agents, and a built-in MCP server for AI assistants.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

leafdesk is an AI chat assistant, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: real-time collaboration, self-hosting on your own server, full-text search, reminders and due dates, local model execution, Markdown support, central authentication (LDAP, SSO…), API for automation and integration.

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
  • “Leafdesk is an open-source workspace you run on your own server or in its desktop app on your computer: pages, databases, team messages, email and realtime collaboration, with a built-in MCP server so Claude and…” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Open-source workspace of pages, databases, team messages and your email, with realtime collaboration, AI chat and agents, and a built-in MCP server for AI assistants.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Leafdesk: open-source, self-hosted pages and databases with an MCP server” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Website: esmworks.github.io/leafdesk • Pages and databases: a block editor with slash commands, and databases whose rows are pages, shown as table, board, calendar, agenda, gallery, list, feed, timeline, map, chart,…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “It reads your mail and drafts answers, sets reminders, makes Word and Excel files, asks your questions on a schedule and keeps short notes about you, which you see, change or turn off.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Optional AI writing, AI properties and agents, with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or a local model.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Nested pages, slash commands, markdown shortcuts, callouts, LaTeX, Mermaid diagrams, columns, embeds, comments and suggested edits, links between pages with a graph of how they connect, and full page history.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Teamspaces, page, property and row permissions, guests, SSO with OIDC and SAML, SCIM, two-step verification, passkeys, sign-in only from approved networks, legal holds, sensitive content detection, page webhooks and…” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Teamspaces, page, property and row permissions, guests, SSO with OIDC and SAML, SCIM, two-step verification, passkeys, sign-in only from approved networks, legal holds, sensitive content detection, page webhooks and…” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (AGPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub esmworks/leafdesk (AGPL-3.0-only)

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