FAQ
Billions of internet users have traded their digital rights for the convenience of online workspaces like Google Workspace, Notion, and Microsoft 365. These centralized platforms jeopardize people's privacy, creativity, and digital freedom through account and data lock-in mechanisms, intrusive ads, centralized server control, opt-in by default AI integrations, and arbitrary censorship. Fileverse offers privacy-first alternatives that deliver the comfort of familiar apps but with end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge authentication, data portability, and local or decentralized storage at their core.
The Fileverse middleware provides the core infrastructure that powers beta apps such as ddocs.new, dsheets.new, open SDKs and the Fileverse API. The middleware focuses on privacy by design, decentralization and sovereignty by default, full user control over data, and open-source standards. The source code is publicly available on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license.
ddocs.new (public beta) is a privacy-first and open-source alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word, built on the Fileverse middleware. It offers an end-to-end encrypted document editor for groups and teams to work, collaborate, and share knowledge online in a fast and secure way.
Unique dDocs features include: offline mode, Markdown/LaTeX support, dark mode/themes, and private zero-knowledge powered access permissions & social recovery. Data stays local (IndexedDB), with optional saving on decentralized servers (IPFS) for sharing and cross-device syncing. It requires no account to get started and can be instantly accessed via ddocs.new in any browser, on both desktop and mobile.
dDocs also integrates AI without compromising privacy. The app includes an opt-in local LLM that runs entirely on your device, for autocomplete, prompting, and summaries, online or offline. The Fileverse API lets external LLMs and agents programmatically create, edit, and manage encrypted documents via MCP, enabling multiplayer collaboration between humans and agents.
All documents tied to a dDocs account can be independently recovered using the Backup Key if the main app is down. Online documents can be controlled end-to-end without depending on centralized servers via the static and .onion Walkaway Page, giving you full sovereignty over your data.
ddocs.new supports a range of use cases including real-time and asynchronous team collaboration, fan fiction writing, legal document management with version history, and academic work. All with no tracking, surveillance, or AI training.
dsheets.new (public beta) is a privacy-preserving and decentralized alternative to Google Sheets and Excel. It lets you read, manipulate, and write financial and onchain data privately, without relying on centralized servers.
dSheets requires no account creation and is accessible instantly via any browser on desktop and mobile by navigating to dsheets.new. It provides a familiar spreadsheet interface with standard functions (such as VLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH) alongside features specific to easily querying and writing onchain data.
Unique features include: live price feeds and market data via native CoinGecko integration (=COINGECKO() formula), smart contract querying and simulation, multi-chain data querying, Dune graphs and tables embedding, custom API key integration for third-party protocols, no-code onchain dashboard creation, and IPFS storage for optional public sharing.
Built on the same Fileverse middleware as dDocs, dSheets is fully end-to-end encrypted, local-first, and uses private zero-knowledge authentication (vOPRF-ID) for granular permissions and recovery. dsheets.new is ideal for privacy-minded individuals and teams who want a trustworthy spreadsheet tool free from data mining, AI scanning, or centralized control.
The Fileverse API is an interface that enables LLMs (such as Claude, ChatGPT, Clawbot) and your CLI to programmatically access ddocs.new.
With it you can create, edit, read, and delete end-to-end encrypted documents, sync notes from other applications, and add multiplayer agents or custom skills via MCP (Model Context Protocol). The API allows for various agents to simultaneously collaborate on markdown documents and users to add comments.
Local deployment keeps data on device; cloud deployment allows persistent access. It also has an Agent Skills available on ClawHub.
To use it login to ddocs.new, open your settings, and enable developer mode.
Fileverse Portal (private Beta) is a privacy-enhancing space for everyday online activities: peer-to-peer file-sharing and storage via IPFS & Arweave, publishing decentralized websites/knowledge bases/portfolios, collaborative document editing (via dDocs), brainstorming on whiteboards, and creating onchain communities with trustless co-management (via Safe multisigs).
Portal serves as a decentralised alternative to Google Workspace & Notion. It’s designed to support privacy, creative freedom, and cryptographically secured collaboration without surveillance or platform lock-in.
Sovereignty on Fileverse means complete control over your data and tools, without dependence on centralized players, Big Tech, or any entity that could lock you in, censor you, or disappear with your content.
Fileverse implements sovereignty by design, across the middleware and apps. With dDocs and dSheets, you can always independently retrieve your data using your Backup Key via the Walkaway Page, no matter what happens to Fileverse and even if the apps are down.
You also have the freedom to control where your data lives: local on your device (IndexedDB), self-hosted on-premises, stored on centralized servers of your choosing, or on decentralized networks (IPFS).
Fileverse apps enhance your privacy online through multiple approaches. For those who want to avoid any form of identification, the apps are useable without an account. Data stays locally on your browser and never touches a server. When creating an account for collaborative features or cross-device syncing, you can use passkeys or generate a wallet address to maintain pseudonymity instead of sharing email or social identifiers.
All your content is end-to-end encrypted and collaborative sessions are secured cryptographically. Only you and your collaborators can decrypt content. It’s impossible for Fileverse to read your data or use it for ads or AI training.
Fileverse apps do not use ads, tracking or fingerprinting. We do use a privacy preserving and open source analytics tool called Plausible (GDPR compliant) and a basic version of Sentry to detect crashes and errors on our apps (only anonymised logs, no PIIs only device and browser type for debugging). These tools do not capture any private identifiable information and only share device and browser type to help us debug.
The apps also provide enhanced privacy in collaborative activities. Access permissions are managed through smart contracts and User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs). We use vOPRFs and zero-knowledge Semaphore contracts to keep collaborators anonymous. Fileverse can't see who you invited, even if you add their emails in the access permissions. Social recovery is also powered by zero-knowledge proofs, enabling trusted contacts to help you recover access without exposing your or their identity.
Finally, Fileverse apps' UIs are also accessible via any IPFS public gateway for those that do not want to rely on the main domains. You can download the static pages of the apps from IPFS and use them without ever interacting with the apps frontends hosted by Fileverse.
Yes! The Fileverse beta apps -ddocs.new and dsheets.new- are fully end-to-end encrypted. Here are the open source repos, independently audited by Nethermind, Dedalo, and X41 D-Sec: Fileverse cryptography, Fileverse Walkaway, ZKovery, ZK Permissions, VOPRF Server.
The cryptography powering Fileverse’s collaborative workspace and productivity apps is all open-source. Anyone can verify our approach to end-to-end encryption, security and privacy. We have open sourced (AGPL-3.0) and audited our work, and have made it easy for developers to adopt it in their own applications through a simple npm package. You can find our repositories and libraries HERE. These are used across the content encryption, file-sharing, commenting, and collaboration features of both ddocs.new and dsheets.new.
Fileverse maintains dedicated open-source repositories for its applied zero-knowledge proof research, built on the Semaphore protocol developed by the Privacy & Scaling Explorations (PSE) team at the Ethereum Foundation. The ZK infrastructure underpins three core capabilities deployed in production across ddocs.new anddsheets.new:
- ZK social recovery (ZKovery): A privacy-preserving social account recovery system in which guardians can collectively recover a user's account by generating zero-knowledge proofs of membership in a secret recovery set, without revealing their identities. The process is serverless and relies solely on smart contracts deployed on Ethereum.
- ZK granular permissions: A permission management library combining verifiable oblivious pseudorandom functions (vOPRF), Merkle trees, and multi-layer encryption to enforce six-tier access control (public/private × view/comment/edit) across documents and spreadsheets. Users authenticate via email, wallet address, or ENS domain without the server learning their identity. The system has been audited by Dédalo and Nethermind Security.
- Floppy: A smart contract system for tokenized access groups with ZK-proof verification via Semaphore. Each "floppy" represents a capacity-limited access group with a three-tier permission model (owner, managers, operators) and privacy-preserving membership claims.
ddocs.new is designed with longform and creative writing in mind, making it especially useful for fanfiction writers.
It supports structured organization through folders and tabs, letting you manage chapters, alternate versions, and notes without duplicating full documents. The built-in version history lets you track changes, revisit earlier drafts, or experiment with different plotlines. Word count tracking helps you stay on top of your progress.
You can write fully offline, on mobile, use distraction-free custom themes to stay focused, and collaborate privately with beta readers or co-authors. AO3-compatible HTML export makes it easy to publish your work directly to Archive of Our Own.
There are no content restrictions: dDocs will never censor or restrict your writing. All content on the app is end-to-end encrypted and stored locally and optionally on decentralized servers, ensuring your writing remains yours, with no platform censorship, account locks, AI training, or surveillance. Even if the app is down, you can always recover your documents independently of Fileverse via the static walkaway page.
Whether you're writing solo or co-authoring, dDocs keeps your flow focused, private, and portable.
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Manifesto
"In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish." - A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
The Internet is the new home of our Minds. It's where we discover, produce and share information and it's where we meet and coordinate freely with others. Being unrestrained in our ability to access information and people is essential to our freedom and to global understanding and collaboration.
Alas, the factories in control of the "global conveyance of thought" have creeped their way into that new world. Today, the state of the Internet is best described by the walled gardens that have captured most of its traffic and the content people produce online. This capture feels benign most of the time. It is enveloped by an effortless user experience and deep integrations across popular apps, making it difficult for someone to imagine themselves without these exact tools.
However, the reality is that over 3 billion (!!) people have unwittingly traded their digital rights, such as the right to privacy, for the comfort of "free" online workspaces and collaboration suites that are controlled by one centralized entity. This has invited unrestrained surveillance and control over our personal data. With the rise of foundation models (AI), this control is only exacerbated, weaponised, and used to justify even more data collection and processing.
We should know better than to tie our whole digital life to entities that put their corporate interests above our digital rights, but we could not necessarily do better… until now.
The first goal of dDocs and dSheets is to shed light on the performative neutrality of centralised apps like google docs and google sheets, so that we can unmask the exploitative practices they facilitate and help people make informed choices about their digital lives. Their second goal is to be the open alternative to closed-source tools posing as digital public goods.To do so, dDocs and dSheets are designed to be as simple and comfortable to use as centralized apps by abstracting away the complexity of the technologies that guarantee people’s sovereignty.
Contrary to alternatives, dDocs and dSheets are usable without creating an account, they are optimized for mobile compatibility as most of the world are mobile-native internet users, and they can even be used offline. dDocs and dSheets will also have open SDKs, allowing anyone to reproduce and reconfigure the tools to their liking and develop them in whatever way they see fit.
dDocs and dSheets are the culmination of years of work on p2p networks and blockchain research. Their architecture combines p2p networks for file sharing, content addressing as well as real-time collaboration, and public blockchains (Ethereum & Gnosis) to guarantee the protection of people’s freedom by design. This allows dDocs and dSheets to benefit from:
We're committed to pushing open-source software into the world and are gradually opening up the repositories by creating SDKs for you to build on top of it or fork. dDocs is powered by Fileverse, here is the codebase you can audit and verify, or participate to: Fileverse, Fileverse cryptography, dDocs, dSheets, Fileverse Walkaway, ZKovery, ZK Permissions, VOPRF Server.
Also on Radicle, .onion, and static page.