Name

Framasoft

Legal name

Framasoft

Website

https://framasoft.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations: Primary revenue stream (94% of revenue in 2025). Association operates entirely on voluntary donations from supporters. Monthly recurring donations (€2, €20, €40, €80/month) and one-time donations (€20, €80, €200, €400). French donors receive 66% tax deduction, making an €80 donation cost only €27.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Framasoft provides free, libre (free as in freedom) online services that serve as ethical alternatives to GAFAM surveillance-capitalism platforms, including collaborative productivity tools (Framadate for scheduling, Framaforms for surveys, Framapad for real-time collaborative documents), team communication (Framateam), cloud collaboration (Framaspace, built on Nextcloud), and federated video hosting (PeerTube). All services are accessible without payment, developed and self-hosted as libre software across a 100+ server infrastructure, and sustained entirely by donations from individual supporters.

Product overview

Framasoft is a non-profit association (loi 1901) founded in 2004 that offers a portfolio of 44 projects including 26 ethical online services, all built as free/libre software alternatives to proprietary surveillance capitalism platforms. The portfolio centers on collaborative productivity tools (Framapad, Framadate, Framaforms), communication platforms (Framateam), video hosting (PeerTube), and cloud storage (Framaspace/Nextcloud). These services are promoted collectively through initiatives like 'Dégooglisons Internet' and are part of a broader ecosystem including the CHATONS collective for digital sovereignty, Framalibre directory, Framablog for educational content, and Des Livres en Communs publishing house. Framasoft operates approximately 60 sites and services across 100+ servers, funded entirely by donations, with 10 permanent staff and 700 contributors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Framadate: Online scheduling and decision-making tool (alternative to Doodle)
• Framaforms
• Framapad
• Framaspace
• Framateam
• PeerTube

Products and services

• Framadate Free online scheduling and polling tool for coordinating meetings and making group decisions; positioned as a libre alternative to Doodle and intended for individuals, small associations, and collectives needing privacy-respecting group decision-making.
• Framaforms Free online form builder for creating surveys and questionnaires; positioned as a libre alternative to Google Forms and intended for individuals and small organizations that need a privacy-respecting way to collect responses.
• Framapad Collaborative online text editor allowing multiple users to write and edit documents together in real time; positioned as a libre alternative to Google Docs for individuals, collectives, and educators needing ad-free collaborative writing.
• PeerTube Free and decentralized video platform software enabling federated video hosting and streaming through ActivityPub federation; positioned as a libre alternative to YouTube for creators, organizations, and instances that want to resist GAFAM video platforms.
• Framaspace Friendly cloud storage and collaboration platform for activist collectives and small associations, built on Nextcloud technology; positioned as a libre alternative to Google Workspace for solidarity organizations.
• Framateam Team chat and communication platform (Mattermost/Chatwoot-based) for groups that need a libre alternative to Slack; targeted at collectives, small associations, and project teams.
• Mobilizon Federated events and activities platform for organizing and discovering events; intended for groups and individuals who want to coordinate public or community events without depending on centralized platforms.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CHATONS (Collectif d'Hébergeurs Alternatifs, Transparents, Ouverts, Neutres et Solidaires)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Framasoft initiated and maintains the CHATONS collective, a network of alternative, transparent, open, neutral, and supportive hosting providers. The collective facilitates access to trusted alternative hosts beyond Framasoft's own services, promoting decentralization and data sovereignty across the libre hosting ecosystem. The network includes over 300 member organizations.
• FramalibreminorOthersFramalibre is a directory of libre software resources operated by Framasoft, cataloging free and open-source software alternatives.
• Des Livres en CommunsminorOthersA publishing house that challenges industry codes, producing books on commons and social justice topics in collaboration with Framasoft.
• PeerTube (Chocobozzz/Framasoft)coreOthersFramasoft develops PeerTube, a federated video platform software under the AGPLv3 license. This is a flagship libre software project that enables anyone to host their own video platform while federating with other instances via ActivityPub.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Jami (Savoir-faire Linux): Jami is a peer-to-peer, federated communication platform from a Quebec-based open-source company. It competes in the same surveillance-resistant communication space as Framateam and shares Framasoft's emphasis on decentralization and libre software.

Direct peers

• Mattermost: Mattermost is the technology powering Framateam and competes as an open-source Slack alternative for enterprise and devops teams. While Framasoft uses the community edition, Mattermost operates commercially and targets overlapping institutional customers.
• Diaspora Foundation: Diaspora is one of the longest-running federated social networks and shares Framasoft's privacy-first, decentralized philosophy. Both target activist and digital-sovereignty communities with libre software alternatives to centralized platforms.
• Element (Matrix.org Foundation): Element, built on the Matrix federated protocol, competes with Framateam for privacy-conscious team communication. Both champion end-to-end encryption, federated architecture, and serve European institutional clients seeking alternatives to Slack and Teams.
• Mastodon gGmbH: Mastodon, like PeerTube, is a federated social platform built on ActivityPub that Framasoft actively uses and promotes. Both share nonprofit stewardship, federation philosophy, and serve the digital-sovereignty community in the European FOSS ecosystem.
• Nextcloud GmbH: Nextcloud provides the underlying technology for Framaspace and competes directly as a self-hosted alternative to Google Workspace. Both target European institutions seeking sovereign cloud collaboration, with Nextcloud operating on a more commercially-oriented open-core model.
• CryptPad: CryptPad is a French-based open-source encrypted collaborative editing suite that directly competes with Framapad for privacy-conscious users seeking Google Docs alternatives. Both operate on donation/FOSS models and target similar educational and activist user bases.

Broad incumbents

• Signal Foundation: Signal is a nonprofit foundation stewarding privacy-first messaging technology funded by donations. While focused on messaging rather than productivity, it shares Framasoft's nonprofit, surveillance-capitalism-opposed mission and donation-based sustainability.
• Mozilla Foundation: Mozilla is a much larger nonprofit stewarding privacy-respecting internet software (Firefox, Thunderbird) on a donation model. It shares Framasoft's digital-sovereignty mission and nonprofit governance model, and represents the scaled version of what Framasoft aspires to be at a niche level.

Others

• Open Collective: Open Collective provides donation and fiscal-sponsorship infrastructure for open-source and community projects. While not a direct competitor, it represents an adjacent model for how nonprofit/libre projects can sustain themselves through transparent donation infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeframatube.org/a/framasoft/video-channels
• Facebookfacebook.com/framasoft
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/framasoft

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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