Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.
Gobby’s main features include:
- Realtime Collaboration through encrypted channels (version 0.4.0 and up)
- Each user has its own changeable colour to be identified by others
- IRC-like chat for communicating with your partners while coding
- Syntax highlighting for most programming languages
- Session password protection
- Multiple documents in one session
- Drag’n'drop of documents into Gobby
- Document synchronisation on request
- Zeroconf support
- Unicode support
- and more…




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