Gobby

What Gobby is

Gobby is a free collaborative text editor for sessions where several people can work on documents and chat together over the internet. A session can hold multiple documents, and participants can edit the same document in real time. Remote cursors, selections, and user-specific text colors show where each person is working. The editor supports full Unicode and syntax highlighting through GtkSourceView. Group undo is available without undoing changes made by remote users. Sessions include group chat, and a server plugin supports chat documents. Gobby includes a built-in server; technical users can also run the dedicated infinoted server, which stores documents persistently and supports configurable plugins. Sessions can be password-protected, data transfer can use encryption with perfect forward secrecy, and access-control lists can set permissions for documents, directories, and the server. Gobby is available for Windows and Linux, and it runs on Mac OS X. The project does not provide a pre-built Mac package and recommends installation with brew and required packages. The software is licensed under GPLv2+ and ISC.