Collaboration suite with real-time messaging, rich text pages, file management, and dynamic databases - built for offline work (alternative to Slack, Notion).
Colanode is an open-source groupware project, with 5.0k GitHub stars and a health score of 30/100. It committed 74 times in the last twelve months across 6 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: Apache-2.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-04-03 |
| Days since last commit | 136 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 74 |
| Months with activity | 6 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-04-03 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Category | Groupware |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
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Colanode is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
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Slowing down. Colanode recorded 74 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 6 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-04-03. Last release: 2026-04-03. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
Colanode is published under Apache-2.0. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
13 open-source implementations, 2 of them actively maintained, led by Colanode at 5.0k stars. Saturation score 32/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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