Collabora Online
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
2warn against
Nov 6, 2025first mention
Oct 24, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Which is distributed libreoffice you can self-host and also integrates with nextcloud.”
“https://www.collaboraonline.com/”
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“Or you can just ask your LLM to install”
“Speaking of online use please see:”
“The folks from Collabora[1] have done an amazing job at wrapping LibreOffice for the web”
Caveats and dissent
“LibreOffice and Collabora don't seem to be there yet.”
company entrenched in Excelon “Microsoft Teams is a red flag”
“LibreOffice and Collarbora don't seem to be there yet”
works at a non-software mercantile and manufacturing companyon “Microsoft Teams is a red flag”
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“Collabora (the online document suite) is slow as heck.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- The New Collabora Office for Desktop 3 mentions
- ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk 3 mentions
- Microsoft Teams is a red flag 2 mentions
- Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS 2 mentions
- LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation 2 mentions
- Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices 2 mentions
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According to the article the Agency for Digital Government (Digitaliseringsstyrelsen) initiated a pilot in spring 2025 to use Collabora[1]. A General Election was called (not related) which put the project on hold indefinitely. No plan to pick it up agian, and no evaluation is planned. The article mentions that the (38) test persons had reported some frustrations with typography, and track-changes during the test. 1:
“LibreOffice and Collabora don't seem to be there yet.”
“LibreOffice and Collarbora don't seem to be there yet”
“Which is distributed libreoffice you can self-host and also integrates with nextcloud.”
“The German Defense sector did something with Nextcloud, Collabora Online”
https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/ is the French government's office suite. I think this can work as long as the devs are responsive to users' needs. They don't need to reimplement all of MS Office, just the parts they need to serve their constituency.
“https://www.collaboraonline.com/”
“Here we have LibreOffice and Collabora parting ways”
“Collabora's own online version of LibreOffice lies in another repo”
“repackaged Collabora (~LibreOffice)”
“self-hosted instances of Outline (https://www.getoutline.com/) and Nextcloud (with Collabora)”
“Collabora and OnlyOffice are also present in Lasuite Drive's development environment”
“Collabora (the online document suite) is slow as heck.”
“the former is snappy compared to the second”
“I use Collabora online all the time (via Nextcloud)”
“Or you can just ask your LLM to install”
“Speaking of online use please see:”
“here is a (somewhat biased) comparison between OnlyOffice and Collabora Online”
“The folks from Collabora[1] have done an amazing job at wrapping LibreOffice for the web”
“check out Collabora and OnlyOffice, both have a modern ribbon-like interface”
“They have integrated collabora online[0] for web office tasks”
“I have been using and comparing OnlyOffice and Collabora”
“which is itself based on libreoffice online - web based libreoffice”
“The Excel replacement they use is this one”