Cost / License
- Freemium
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted




There are many alternatives to BookStack as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Self-Hosted alternative is Notesnook. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to BookStack and many of them are open source and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Self-Hosted alternatives to BookStack are TiddlyWiki, Docmost, Ibis Wiki and DokuWiki.




Quartz is a set of tools that helps you publish your digital garden and notes as a website for free. Quartz v4 features a from-the-ground rewrite focusing on end-user extensibility and ease-of-use.






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owl is a minimalistic and very fast web application that allows you to organize a simple knowledge base from Markdown files.


TakeNote was made by developers for developers - a simple, plain-text note-taking app for the web with Markdown support. What you see is what you paste. No WYSIWIG, no formatting pasted from the web, and no features you don't need or want.





Herodotus has been designed as easy to use archival software, created to serve as an offline information reference when internet access in unavailable. Herodotus is not designed to be a personal "wayback machine", instead its focus is on providing a handy offline...




docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.


WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine. Supports WYTIWYG-editing, page rights (ACLs), page comments, file uploads, email notification, design themes (skins) and much more. Compatible with PHP 8.0 - 8.5 and MariaDB / MySQL / SQLite.



