BookStack AlternativesOnly apps categorised as CMS Tools

The best CMS alternative to BookStack is DokuWiki, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to BookStack and nine of them are CMS Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting CMS Tool alternatives to BookStack are XWiki, Microsoft SharePoint, Vrite and Twiki.

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  1. DokuWiki icon
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    DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and...

    95 DokuWiki alternatives

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    DokuWiki vs BookStack Comments
    Wolfram Schmidt
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    DokuWiki is pretty powerful once you get used to using the syntax. Once you use it you can be working very fast on DokuWiki.

    • DokuWiki is Free and Open SourceBookStack is also Free and Open Source
    • DokuWiki is LightweightBookStack is not according to our users
  2. XWiki icon
     98 likes

    XWiki is the ultimate open-source structured wiki designed to enhance business collaboration and efficiency. Tailored for tech-savvy professionals, XWiki’s extensibility, customization, and flexibility make it indispensable for managing large projects and datasets, while...

    120 XWiki alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.

    132 Microsoft SharePoint alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Windows Phone
     
  4. Vrite icon
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    Open-source headless CMS ideal for programming blogs, offering a modern WYSIWYG editor, Markdown, code formatting, real-time collaboration, Kanban dashboard, and versatile API for content delivery.

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Twiki icon
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    TWiki is leading open source enterprise wiki and Web 2.0 application platform used by 50,000 small businesses, many Fortune 500 companies, and millions of people. The Structured Wiki has hundreds of plugin and is used as an intranet or extranet to run project and team...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Crossbill Cone is a self-hosted management system for a corporate portal, a knowledge base or a public website. Can be used as CMS or as a corporate Intranet portal.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. WackoWiki icon
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    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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Foswiki icon
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    Foswiki is the free and open source enterprise collaboration platform. Foswiki is a wiki, so you and your team members can collaborate and edit pages directly in the web browser. For advanced collaboration, Foswiki lets you enter macros to automate pages and build entire applicat.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    MarkWiki aims to be dead simple. MarkWiki was born out of frustration with bad documentation tools behind a company firewall that were too complex.

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    • Discontinued

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