Self-hosted wikis: open-source Confluence, Notion, and Bear alternatives
Confluence is $6-11/user/mo. Notion Enterprise is $20/seat. Self-hosted Outline, BookStack, and Wiki.js give the same shared docs and team-knowledge UX on a $5/mo VPS without per-seat pricing. Picks ranked by health and self-hosting cost.
The 24 picks, ranked by health
Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Project documentation with Markdown.
The Sphinx documentation generator
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
The Stack Overflow clone for your team (self-hosted or hosted)
Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
Android client for Nextcloud Notes app.
HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together
Huly, All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.
A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React.
A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.
Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.
Huma REST/HTTP API Framework for Golang with OpenAPI 3.1
Sketch and take handwritten notes.
Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS
A beautiful notes app
A minimalistic wiki powered by python, markdown and git.
Specifically replacing
These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.
Ready to self-host?
Most operators land on storybook (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.