Framasoft in numbers, 2025 edition

What tangible impact does our association have ? This is the question we like to explore at the end of each year (see our figures for 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023, and 2024). Looking at the numbers helps us better understand the real-world value of what we do. Welcome to Framastats 2025 !

Thanks to your donations (66 % tax-deductible in France), Framasoft has been working for over 20 years to promote a more ethical, friendly, and human-centered web. Below, we highlight some of our actions in 2024.

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Part of the traffic data comes from our self-hosted analytics tool, Matomo. As with many privacy-respecting analytics solutions, these figures tend to underestimate actual usage.

Additional statistics are sourced directly from the software we run, or from manual SQL queries on our databases.

Finally, data collection took place between December 8 and December 18, meaning that roughly two to three weeks of activity are missing (about 5 % of the year).

Our online services at a glance

More than 2 million people use Framasoft websites every month, roughly the population of a large European capital like Paris. It’s both humbling and energizing to realize how many people rely on the tools we maintain.

De-google-ify the Internet – Illustration CC BY-SA by David Revoy

So what does this look like, service by service ?

🗓️ Framadate

💪 One of the largest scheduling and polling platforms of its kind worldwide, with nearly 1.5 million polls created in 2025

Framadate helps groups and communities find the right time to meet through simple, accessible polls. In 2025, we also rolled out a major redesign.

In 2025 :

1.4 million polls hosted across our infrastructure

38.5 million visits over the year

☁️ Framaspace

💪 To our knowledge, the world’s largest non-profit-operated Nextcloud ecosystem

Framaspace provides collaborative digital workspaces for small non-profits, grassroots organizations, and informal collectives looking for alternatives to Big Tech platforms.

In 2025 :

2,502 organizations chose Framaspace instead of Google-based tools

864 new Nextcloud instances were deployed

Over 7 million files stored across the platform

📝 Framaforms

💪 A major player in online forms, with hundreds of thousands of new forms created every year

Framaforms enables individuals, collectives and organizations to create online surveys and questionnaires without ads, tracking or data exploitation.

In 2025 :

Over 15 million visits (+68 % compared to 2024)

Nearly 800,000 forms hosted in total

More than 217,000 new forms created during the year

Over 520,000 user accounts

📨 Framalistes & Framagroupes

💪 Among the largest non-commercial mailing list services in operation today, outside of Big Tech platforms

Framalistes and Framagroupes allow groups to create and manage email discussion lists, a simple but still essential communication tool.

As the original Framalistes infrastructure reached its limits, Framagroupes was launched in 2023 to ensure continuity of this service.

In 2025 :

About 1.4 million users

Nearly 70,000 active mailing lists

Roughly 440,000 emails sent every working day

🗒️ Framapad

💪 One of the largest Etherpad-based collaborative writing services worldwide

Framapad allows multiple people to write together on the same document in real time, without requiring accounts or complex setup.

In 2025 :

Nearly 5 million visits

More than 1 million active pads hosted at any given time

Hundreds of thousands of new pads created compared to the previous year

🧮 Framacalc

💪 Possibly the largest EtherCalc deployment in the world, despite its spartan interface

Framacalc provides collaborative online spreadsheets, often used for quick calculations, collective budgeting or shared data tables.

In 2025 :

Nearly 5 million visits

Over 220,000 spreadsheets hosted

💬 Framateam

💪 One of the world’s largest Mattermost-based team chat instances

Framateam is a team chat service that helps groups organize discussions into channels, without surveillance or advertising.

In 2025 :

Almost 1.9 million visits (+30 % year-on-year)

Nearly 180,000 users, including several thousand daily active users

More than 200,000 discussion channels

Over 56 million messages exchanged in total

🔀 Framagit

💪 One of the largest non-commercial Git hosting platforms in France

Framagit is a collaborative software forge where developers can publish code, manage issues and contribute to shared projects.

In 2025 :

More than 84,000 hosted projects

Over 55,000 users

Tens of thousands of forks, issues and merge requests

🗳️ Framavox

Framavox is one of the largest existing instances of the Loomio decision-making software, with nearly 20,000 communities.

Framavox enables collectives to meet, discuss and make decisions together in a single shared space.

In 2025 :

157,050 visits (+14 % compared to 2024)

135,939 users, around 7,000 more than in 2024

18,634 communities, including more than 5,000 created during the year

📍 Framacarte

Framacarte allows users to create and share custom online maps for projects, events or collective initiatives.

In 2025 :

2,654,245 visits (-17 % compared to 2024)

11,950,764 users (+3,186 in one year)

216,750 hosted maps (+19,772 in one year)

🗣️ Framatalk

Framatalk allows users to create or join video-conferencing rooms without installing software or creating accounts.

In 2025 :

98,146 visits (+50 % compared to 2024)

84,000 video-conferencing sessions hosted during the year

Sessions initiated by 15,800 users

🧠 Framindmap

Framindmap enables users to create mind maps online, individually or collaboratively.

In 2025 :

259,655 visits (-9 %)

1,361,130 mind maps hosted in total

223,000 new mind maps created during the year

588,584 users, around 100,000 more than in 2023

📅 Framagenda

A large-scale Nextcloud-based calendar and contact service

Framagenda allows users to manage calendars, events, contacts and collaborative tools online.

In 2025 :

200,536 visits

314,000 calendars (about 15,000 more than in 2024)

More than 150,000 user accounts, including 33,000 active users during the year

27 million events (including subscription events)

2.6 million contacts

1,558 teams

20,000 decks (Kanban-style boards)

66,600 discussion rooms

📁 Framadrive

Framadrive is a document storage and sharing service. While it is no longer open to new registrations, it remains fully operational.

In 2025 :

8.6 million files stored

7,200 users, including 1,126 active users

21,000 public link shares

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Mobilizon

Mobilizon is a federated alternative to Facebook groups and events. In 2024, Framasoft handed over the codebase to the community, notably to the Kaihuri association.

Across the Mobilizon network :

366,136 events

46,487 users (+63 % compared to 2024)

86 instances (8 more than in 2024)

5,341 groups (over 1,000 additional groups)

For the instance operated directly by Framasoft (mobilizon.fr) :

103,963 visits (+15 %)

15,479 published events

13,952 users

2,329 groups

🐘 Framapiaf

Framapiaf is Framasoft’s Mastodon instance. Although it is closed to new registrations, it remains very active.

In 2025 :

347,049 visits (+66 %)

793 users who logged in during the last 30 days

2,650,000 messages posted since the instance was launched

🎮 Framagames

Framagames is our little website, which brings together free games that you can play without leaving your browser. Framagames in figures :

22 games (9 more than in 2024 !)

255,000 visits in 2025

Framasoft as a software publisher

Despite maintaining a Framagit repository with nearly 35 software projects, Framasoft currently officially publishes a single flagship application : PeerTube (along with its mobile app).

Drawing in the style of a fighting video game, where PeerTube’s octopus battles the monster of YouTube, Twitch, and Vimeo.

📺 PeerTube

💪 One of the rare, credible alternatives to centralized video platforms

PeerTube is a decentralized alternative to platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, Dailymotion or Vimeo.

Important note : our counting methodology has changed, making year-to-year comparisons unreliable. The statistics below only include data voluntarily reported by PeerTube instances.

In 2025 :

721,517 users, around 300,000 more than in 2024

Active accounts : 5,384 daily, 17,465 weekly, 38,897 monthly

1,368,408 videos

1,782 public instances

384,742 comments posted on videos

827,695,635 views (a view is counted after 10 seconds of playback)

We therefore expect to reach one billion views in 2026

858 TB of video files stored

345 issues resolved in 2024 (out of 5,257 issues handled overall)

533,365 visits on JoinPeerTube.org (+8.5 % compared to 2024)

PeerTube statistics for the last months of 2025 : instances, users, comments, videos, views and storage volume

📱 PeerTube App

We have been developing a mobile application for PeerTube (iOS and Android) for over two years.

The latest version has just been released.

Total downloads : 110,448

iOS : 56,400

Android (Play Store) : 104,048

F-Droid : statistics not available

The newcomers

At the end of 2025, Framasoft launched several new services.

Since these tools are still very recent, their figures are naturally more modest. Still, transparency matters to us, so here are the numbers !

Dorlotons Dégooglisons – Illustration CC BY-SA by David Revoy

✍️ Framapetitions

Framapetitions is our ethical alternative to platforms like Change.org or Avaaz.

Although the project is still young, we are confident in its long-term relevance. You can read the announcement article for more context.

In 2025 :

59,232 visits

60 petitions

83 users

📄 FramaPDF

FramaPDF is a toolbox for working with PDF files (compressing, signing, adding, removing or rotating pages, and more).

More details are available in the announcement article.

In 2025 :

48,712 visits

21,502 visits on SignaturePDF

27,210 visits on StirlingPDF

💸 Framacount

Framacount is our alternative to Tricount. A simple way to keep track of shared expenses and answer the question : “Who owes how much to whom ?”

In 2025 :

16,492 visits

571 groups

2,303 participants

2,141 recorded expenses

🛠️ FramaToolbox

FramaToolbox is a kind of “digital Swiss army knife”, offering more than a hundred small tools to manipulate files or text (conversion, compression, formatting, etc.).

In 2025 :

13,285 visits

🎙️➡️📝 Lokas

Lokas is our prototype mobile application for audio transcription, designed with privacy in mind.

Released at the end of 2024, it recorded the following figures in 2025 :

12,329 visits (+308 % compared to 2024)

4,919 downloads

iOS : 2,260

Android (Play Store) : 2,659

8,000 transcriptions completed

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The association and cultural commons

The online services we provide are only part of Framasoft’s work. Here are a few figures related to other activities we carried out in 2025.

Illustration by David Revoy – License : CC-BY 4.0

🎤🧑‍🏫 Internal activities

39 talks and workshops in 2025, held both in person and online, on digital issues and cultural commons

Over 118 articles published on the Framablog during the year

305,000 confirmed subsribers to our newsletter

6 publications in our “Des livres en communs” collection

21 textbooks, 8 essays, 12 comic books, and 16 novels, for a total of 57 publications in our (now archived) Framabook publishing house

🤝 Shared projects and partnerships

Framasoft mentioned in at least 29 French-language articles and 26 articles in other languages

1,150 entries listed in the Framalibre directory

54 service providers supporting non-profits in their digital emancipation, listed on emancipasso.org

Continued transfer of coordination after eight years of facilitating the CHATONS collective, now bringing together 86 alternative hosting providers

Ongoing contributions to many free software and commons-oriented projects, through code, documentation and financial support

Support Framasoft’s actions

🏗️ Technical infrastructure

To our knowledge, Framasoft is the largest non-profit host of online services in the world.

In 2025 :

68 physical servers and 61 virtual machines hosting our services

52 TB of inbound traffic and 119 TB of outbound traffic on the main network, plus 69 TB inbound and 399 TB outbound on subnets (excluding December 2025)

0.7 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent for annual electricity consumption (our host, Hetzner, relies on renewable hydro and wind energy)

1 full-time systems and network administrator, supported by two part-time contributors

1 full-time support staff member

– Anakin : “Framasoft has just shared the numbers for its technical infrastructure.” (68 dedicated servers, 61 virtual machines)
– Padmé : “Impressive, you must have lots of system administrators ?”
– Anakin looks at Padmé with a smirk. (Only 1 sysadmin at Framasoft)
– Padmé, concerned : ”You must have lots of system administrators, right? »
— Meme Framamemes.org

👥 Human resources (or rather, human wealth)

Framasoft is :

An association of 35 members, including :

26 volunteers involved in public outreach, communication, project management, governance and administration

9 employees, covering support, development, system administration, coordination and management roles

A broader community of contributors helping with translations, forum support, public events and outreach

❤️ Around 9,000 people providing financial support every year ❤️

By supporting Framasoft, you help put technology back in its rightful place : at the service of people, not profit. You contribute to an Internet where culture and knowledge can circulate freely, where tools are shared rather than monetized, and where ethical digital services remain accessible to everyone.

We estimate that we need to raise €250,000 by December 31 in order to continue and expand our actions in 2026. As of December 23, 2025, this leaves just a few days to mobilize and support us.

By running this 2025 donation campaign, we are reaching out to everyone who refuses to remain a passive spectator of surveillance capitalism and the enshittification of the Internet. By donating, you choose the side of the commons and affirm that another digital future is possible.