# Install teamtype with Homebrew, Nix, pacman

Peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic collaborative editing of local text files. Version 0.9.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-08. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#teamtype.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:teamtype
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install teamtype
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#teamtype
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/teamtype/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S teamtype
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: teamtype from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:teamtype
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9.2
- **Source summary:** Peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic collaborative editing of local text files
- **Homepage:** <https://teamtype.github.io/teamtype/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/teamtype/teamtype>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-08T19:57:32Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- teamtype (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.9.2
## Project history and usage

Teamtype is a local-first, peer-to-peer collaborative editing tool for local text files. Its README describes it as multiplayer mode for a user's own text editor and the missing real-time complement to Git and other version-control systems.

### Project history

The project was formerly known as Ethersync until October 2025, when the README says it was renamed to Teamtype. Its documentation and README present a design centered on real-time encrypted peer-to-peer editing, local files that remain on disk, and editor plugins communicating with a daemon through a JSON-RPC protocol.

Teamtype is maintained as a volunteer project rather than a company-backed hosted service. The README explicitly states that the maintainers do not sell a service, require accounts, access user data, train AI systems, serve ads, or track users.

### Adoption history

The README documents installation through GitHub binary releases, Arch Linux, Homebrew, Nix, Cargo, and cargo-binstall, and the supplied package-manager facts show Homebrew, Nix, and pacman packages. It also lists editor integrations for Neovim and VS Code/Codium, plus community or work-in-progress integrations for JetBrains IDEs, TeXstudio, Emacs, Obsidian, web editors, Kakoune, Hedgedoc, Braid, and LSP bridges.

### How it is used

Users run `teamtype share` in one directory and share the generated join code; a peer runs `teamtype join` in another directory, after which edits sync instantly while each participant keeps using their own editor. The README shows the peer address being stored in `.teamtype/config`.

### Why package nerds care

Teamtype is interesting to package nerds because it packages a collaboration protocol as a normal local CLI rather than a SaaS workflow. It sits at the intersection of editor plugins, local-first software, peer-to-peer networking, and reproducible command-line installs.

### Timeline

- 2024: README copyright headers and project funding notes show active Ethersync-era development.
- 2025: FOSDEM talk presented Ethersync as real-time collaboration in a text editor.
- October 2025: README says the project was renamed from Ethersync to Teamtype.

### Related projects

- The README says Teamtype is based on Automerge, Iroh, and Magic Wormhole, and the documentation includes a related-projects page for other collaborative text-editing systems.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/teamtype/teamtype>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/teamtype/teamtype/main/README.md>
- <https://teamtype.github.io/teamtype>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: .teamtype/config
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - teamtype: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/teamtype/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - teamtype - 0.9.2-4: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: teamtype from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Peer-to-peer, editor-agnostic collaborative editing of local text files | https://github.com/teamtype/teamtype


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/teamtype.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/teamtype.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph