fileverse.io

What It Is

Fileverse is a privacy-first, self-sovereign collaboration suite and middleware platform, positioned as an open-source alternative to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Notion. Its public beta apps include dDocs.new for documents and dSheets.new for spreadsheets, while Portal remains in private beta. The product emphasizes end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge authentication, data portability, local or decentralized storage, and is open-sourced under AGPL-3.0.

Core Features

dDocs provides encrypted document collaboration with support for offline use, Markdown/LaTeX, themes, version history, comments, recovery via backup keys, and local LLM-assisted writing. dSheets offers a spreadsheet-like experience with enhanced on-chain data capabilities, including CoinGecko price formulas, smart contract queries and simulations, multi-chain queries, Dune embeds, and custom API keys. Its permissions system is based on smart contracts, UCAN, vOPRF, and zero-knowledge proofs, covering fine-grained access control such as viewing, commenting, and editing.

Pricing and Deployment

The crawled text does not disclose plans, pricing, payment methods, or enterprise SLAs. dDocs and dSheets are currently in public beta and are described as accessible directly in the browser without an account. Deployment follows a local-first model: data can remain in the browser’s IndexedDB, or users can choose IPFS, their own server, self-hosted on-premises deployment, or cloud deployment. Walkaway Page and Backup Key further strengthen data recovery in extreme scenarios.

Pros and Cons

Its main advantage is a very thorough privacy-oriented design: no ads, no tracking, no AI training, open-source code, and some cryptographic components audited by Nethermind, Dedalo, and X41 D-Sec. API/CLI, SDK, and MCP support also make it friendly to developers and AI agents. The downsides are that the product is still in beta, and common enterprise features such as SSO, audit logs, compliance certifications, and commercial support are not fully documented. Decentralized storage, key management, and recovery mechanisms may also increase the learning curve for ordinary teams.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Fileverse is suitable for privacy-sensitive teams, creators, legal and academic writers, Web3 data analysts, and developers looking to build encrypted collaboration applications. The text does not clarify access conditions from mainland China, and there is uncertainty around the stability of the main domain as well as the availability of external services such as IPFS/.onion, CoinGecko, Dune, and LLMs. For companies in China, Feishu, Tencent Docs, and Shimo Docs may be considered alongside it; if open source and private deployment are priorities, alternatives such as ONLYOFFICE and CryptPad are also worth watching.