Run Etherpad with PostgreSQL in one click

Documents you write together in real time: Etherpad with its own PostgreSQL database, on its own HTTPS address. Pick the template, name the app and deploy; the database is set up for you. Ours was running in 36 seconds.

What you get

Etherpad as its makers publish it, with nothing changed.

  • Etherpad, the official image
  • Its own PostgreSQL 17 database, connected for you, instead of Etherpad's development file database
  • Its own HTTPS address from the first minute
  • Pads anyone with the link can write in at the same time, each writer's text in their own colour, with chat and history

Deploy it from the template

Sign in, then Stacks, Create, From a template, and pick Etherpad + PostgreSQL. Give the app a name. On the database card the username is already yours and the password is made for you if you leave it empty; both are under Connection details on the stack page afterwards. The Etherpad card has the admin login for Etherpad's own admin page (/admin): type a password or leave it empty to have one made, and find it under Your settings on the card. Press Deploy, check the summary, then Confirm and deploy.

Picking the Etherpad + PostgreSQL template
Picking the Etherpad + PostgreSQL template
The database card: your username, a password made for you unless you type one
The database card: your username, a password made for you unless you type one
What will be built, before deploying
What will be built, before deploying
The stack page: Etherpad, its database, and the Private switch
The stack page: Etherpad, its database, and the Private switch

Open a pad and write

Open the app's address, type a pad name and press Open pad by name, or let Etherpad make one up. The pad is saved as you type. A new pad shows its deletion token once: keep it if you may want to delete that pad later.

Etherpad's start page on the app's address
Etherpad's start page on the app's address
A pad with meeting notes, the writer's text in their colour
A pad with meeting notes, the writer's text in their colour

Share it

The app starts private: only you can open it. Switch it from Private to Public on the stack page, then send people a pad's link: anyone who has it can read and write in that pad.

Questions people ask

Can I run Etherpad without setting up a server?

Yes. Uppcoder starts Etherpad and its PostgreSQL database for you from a template, on its own HTTPS address. There is no server, Docker or database to set up yourself.

Does it come with a database?

Yes, its own PostgreSQL 17 database, connected for you. You choose its username and password, or let Uppcoder make the password.

Who can edit a pad?

Anyone who can open the app and has the pad's link. Keep the app private until you want others in.

Shared documents and their database, live in seconds. Uppcoder is not affiliated with the Etherpad Foundation.