Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for Wordpress 3.3.1 or later designed to enable readers to contribute comments to each paragraph of a text and display those comments in the margins. Commentpress turns a text into a conversation, whether a blog or a fixed document such as an essay, book or article. It may also be used to add a gloss or annotations to a document. This tool is also available for BuddyPress and BP Group Blog.

The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool that enables users to select regions of an image and link them to text. TILE is a system for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and connecting them to digital archives of the texts. It has been designed for easy modification by integrating a plugin infrastructure.

MorphAdorner, now in version 2.0, is a Java command-line program for the adornment of words in a text. At present, available adornments include standard spellings, parts of speech and lemmata, in addition to tokenization, the recognition of sentence boundaries and extracting names and places. Version 2.0 features a separate MorphAdorner Server, an improved integration with MONK's Abbot and improved processing of the Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Evans Early American Imprint Collection corpori.

RoSE is a web-based system blending social computing with humanities bibliographical resources, enabling these resources to be explored as a social network. It incorporates data mined from YAGO and Project Gutenberg, offers profile pages for both persons and documents, keywords, and visualizations of the relationships between people and documents. Users are encouraged to contribute metadata supplementing the standard bibliographical data.

Scripto is a lightweight, open source tool for crowdsourcing transcriptions for Humanities projects. Projects utilizing Scripto can manage contributions via full editorial controls and a versioning history.

Data Wrangler is free web-based tool for interactive data cleaning and transformation. It takes raw data and transforms it into data tables for further analysis and cleaning. The results can be exported in a variety of data table formats, including Excel, R, Tableau and Protovis.

The Versioning Machine, now in version 4.0, is a framework and an interface for displaying multiple versions of text, and encodes the text according to TEI guidelines. It incorporates features found in both critical editions and electronic publication, in addition to providing an environment for textual editors to comparatively view the results of their edits. This tool may be downloaded for use on a local machine, or hosted on one's server for web usage.

Dynamic Table of Contexts is a free tool for supplementing a traditional table of contents for a text. It allows users to add or subtract index items based on XML encoding. This tool requires the creation of an account.

FromThePage is a free software for manuscript transcription, allowing volunteers to transcribe document pages online. Transcriptions can then be marked up and annotated in a wiki-like enviroment, with the resultant text displayed on the public web. It includes a discussion environment, enabling collaboration on particularly difficult pages. FromThePage is currently in beta, permitting up to 100 pages per project, and is in the process of developing a paid version for larger projects requiring more server space, with price determined primarily by server and maintenance costs. Privacy features are also under development, and further features forthcoming based on feedback from users.

Sophie is a free, creative commons authoring tool from the Institute for the Future of the Book and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts that enables collaboration, reading and publication. Its highlights include an authoring environment that allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents, a reader than opens books in a browser without downloading additional software, comment frames for adding discussions within books, digital libraries compatible with the Sophe iPad app, timeline creation and collaborative book creation. As of version 2.1, Sophie includes HTML5 export for data integrating multimedia content and for use on a wide variety of devices.