BookStack AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Wiki Engines

The best Wiki Engine alternative to BookStack is Ibis Wiki, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to BookStack and 14 are Wiki Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Wiki Engine alternatives to BookStack are Docmost, MediaWiki, DokuWiki and XWiki.

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  1. Ibis Wiki icon
     24 likes

    Ibis is a federated encyclopedia which uses the ActivityPub protocol, just like Mastodon or Lemmy. Users can create, browse, edit articles and use many other features. If you want to start a wiki for a TV series, a video game, or an open source project, then Ibis is for you!

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    • Online
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
    • PostgreSQL
     
  2. Docmost icon
     46 likes

    Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

    105 Docmost alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
  3. MediaWiki icon
     183 likes

    MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

    89 MediaWiki alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Sandstorm
     
  4. DokuWiki icon
     190 likes

    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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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
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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
  5. 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
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  6. Wiki.js icon
     52 likes

    Write your content in the widely used and simple Markdown format, using the built-in visual editor. Unlike other wiki software that save content in a database with a difficult to extract format, Wiki.js saves all your content directly into Markdown (.

    76 Wiki.js alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  7. Miraheze icon
     33 likes

    Miraheze is a wiki farm (hosts wikis) for free and with no ads, it also provides custom domains, extensions and many other features. It is based on MediaWiki.

    25 Miraheze alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • MediaWiki
     
  8. Filesystem and git-based wiki engine written in Go using Mycomarkup as its primary markup language.

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    • Online
     
  9. Create a wiki with Google Docs.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Drive - Docs
     
  10. WackoWiki icon
     13 likes

    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
     
  11.  2 likes

    LionWiki is a minimalist Wiki engine programmed in PHP. It is extensible, templatable, file based (it doesn't need database like MySQL) and requires just one file to function. It is suitable for small websites, personal notebooks or journals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. ProWiki icon
     3 likes

    ProWiki is a collaborative knowledge management tool for teams and organizations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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