Hello everyone,
After a long time in the making, I have finally finished the first release of EditBase and published it on the App Store. If you already use my apps, I would be glad if you gave it a try.
EditBase is a word processor built only on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with no outside program needed. It combines the layout of my Base series of apps, the feel of LibreOffice and the easy handling of a DTP program. I kept it to the features that matter, so that good-looking documents are easy to make.
Each document is a single HTML file: any ordinary browser can show it, publishing it on the web is simple, and it prints like any word processor would. It is also made to work with my other apps, such as RegiBase and FormulaBase.
I can’t say whether it will fit everyone’s needs, but I think it has turned out versatile and well suited to sharing documents in Nextcloud. As much as possible is done with HTML5 and CSS alone; what they cannot do — letting the text run on both sides of an object, photographs enlarged with an effect, table calculation — is done with JavaScript, which can be turned on or off for each document.
The source code has grown very large, and debugging it all on my own is hard, so there may well be bugs still hiding in it. Please use it for real and report any bugs you find. Opinions and impressions are just as welcome — feel free to reply.
I would also like to introduce my other apps once more — all of them have improved a lot since August:
- RegiBase — your passwords and records, the way you want them. Design your own fields or start from a template, and browse as a list, a table or cards. Secret fields are encrypted in your browser with a master password, so the server only ever holds ciphertext.
What’s new since August: sharing collections with other users; triple protection — every change kept as a snapshot, versions by session, and password-protected backups; import from Google Password Manager and Contacts; now in 20 languages. - NetBase — see every device on your network, and open it from anywhere. It finds the devices on your LAN in seconds, recognises 81 kinds of device (printers, routers, cameras, NAS…) and shows them as cards grouped by network. Their web pages open through Nextcloud, even when you are away from the office, and an SSH terminal, ping, DNS, whois and mail-domain checks are built in.
NetBase has grown the most through this forum: its thread here is the busiest of all my apps, and many of its improvements came straight from your reports — thank you. If you run a network, it is worth a look. - FormulaBase — the calculator that remembers. Save the formulas you use again and again, name each variable once, and just fill in the numbers next time. Formulas can go straight into an EditBase document.
What’s new: templates grown to more than 5,500 across 13 fields (finance, statistics, physics, chemistry, medicine, AI and more), and a far stronger engine — lists, matrices, complex numbers, integrals, derivatives and equation solving, with over 200 functions. - Talk-Bot — an AI assistant right in Nextcloud Talk: Claude, Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible service, through its API or with the subscription you already have. It remembers each conversation, and administrators can look after the server from a chat.
What’s new: runs inside Nextcloud itself; switch the AI model with?model, and update it with?update, straight from the chat; ready for Nextcloud 35.
Links: EditBase / RegiBase / NetBase / FormulaBase / Talk-Bot
P.S. Honestly, I’m exhausted. I’m going to take a little nap now — please be gentle with the bug reports while I’m asleep. 
all your apps work out of the box on Nextcloud snap!
