Best self-hosted Wikis & Knowledge Bases apps

SiYuan

siyuan-note/siyuan

A privacy-first personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

Outline

outline/outline

Extensible wiki for your team.

Wiki.js

requarks/wiki

Modern, lightweight and powerful wiki app using Git and Markdown.

docmost Community Edition

docmost/docmost

Collaborative wiki and documentation software (alternative to Confluence, Notion).

BookStack

BookStackApp/BookStack

Simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

Docs

suitenumerique/docs

Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.

TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki/TiddlyWiki5

Reusable non-linear personal web notebook.

Dokuwiki

dokuwiki/dokuwiki

Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.

Raneto

ryanlelek/Raneto

Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files.

NoteDiscovery

gamosoft/NoteDiscovery

Markdown note-taking app with plain-file storage, graph view, and MCP integration (alternative to Obsidian, Notion).

Aleph

alephdata/aleph

Tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case.

Documize

documize/community

Modern Docs + Wiki software with built-in workflow, single binary executable, just bring MySQL/Percona.

Gitit

jgm/gitit

Wiki program that stores pages and uploaded files in a git repository, which can then be modified using the VCS command line tools or the wiki's web interface.

Zim

zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki

Graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.

django-wiki

django-wiki/django-wiki

Wiki system with complex functionality for simple integration and a superb interface. Store your knowledge with style: Use django models.

Atomic Server

ontola/atomic-server

Knowledge graph database with documents (similar to Notion), tables, search, and a powerful linked data API. Lightweight, very fast and no runtime dependencies.

Otter Wiki

redimp/otterwiki

Simple, easy to use wiki software using markdown.

XWiki

xwiki/xwiki-platform

Second generation wiki that allows the user to extend its functionalities with a powerful extension-based architecture.

LeafWiki

perber/leafwiki

A fast wiki for people who think in folders, not feeds. Fast editing. Tree navigation. Markdown on disk.

Marmot

marmotdata/marmot

Data catalog for discovering and organizing data assets across your stack, including databases, APIs, message queues, and pipelines.

Wiki-Go

leomoon-studios/wiki-go

A modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform.

WikiDocs

Zavy86/WikiDocs

A databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine.

TeamMapper

b310-digital/teammapper

Host and create your own mindmaps. Share your mindmap sessions with your team and collaborate live on mindmaps.

AmuseWiki

melmothx/amusewiki

Amusewiki is based on the Emacs Muse markup, remaining mostly compatible with the original implementation. It can work as a read-only site, as a moderated wiki, or as a fully open wiki or even as a…

LibreKB

michaelstaake/LibreKB

Web-based knowledge base solution. A simple web app, it runs on pretty much any web server or hosting provider with PHP and MySQL.

W

vincent-peugnet/wcms

Lightweight, mutli-user, flat-file-database Wiki engine. Create pages quickly and edit them in your Web browser using Mardown/HTML/CSS/JS. The main difference with other wiki is that you are…

WackoWiki

WackoWiki/wackowiki

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine.