Tiny Little Office brings 10 browser-based tools together

Developer Paul Ford has introduced Tiny Little Office, a free office suite that runs in a web browser without logins or cloud access. The project’s code is open source. TechRadar reports that it was made with help from AI, though the extent of that work is unclear.

The suite includes 10 tools: a word processor, outliner, presentation tool, spreadsheet, calculator, drawing tool, diagram maker, animator, calendar and trip planner. Its central idea is that “the link is the document”: changes are saved in the URL, and sharing it gives someone else a copy they can edit locally. Those edits do not sync back to the original.

Shared links can be password-protected, set to read-only or made to expire after a period ranging from an hour to a month. Users can also save multiple files in their browser or choose to clear them when they close the page. The suite supports LLM agents.

Ford’s colleague Rich Ziade built TinySheet, a small spreadsheet that ran in a browser, six years ago; TinyCalendar followed, but both projects were later abandoned. Ford says he uses Tiny Little Office to leave notes in Slack. He also describes its approach as unlike Google Docs collaboration, comparing it instead to handing out zines at a street fair. The links can become unwieldy in chat, and the app cannot upload video or images.