Confluence AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Wiki Engines

The best Wiki Engine alternative to Confluence is Nuclino, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Confluence and 17 are Wiki Engines so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Wiki Engine alternatives to Confluence are Notion, BookStack, Docmost and XWiki.

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  1. Nuclino icon
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    Nuclino is a unified workspace where teams can bring all their knowledge, docs, and projects together in one place. It’s a modern, simple, and blazingly fast way to collaborate, without the chaos of files and folders, context switching, or silos.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • iPad
     
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  2. Notion icon
     660 likes

    Enhance team collaboration and content organization with Notion. Experience real-time access, intuitive drag-and-drop functionalities, and visually simple interfaces designed for productivity in managing tasks, notes, and databases effectively. Ideal for teams of every size.

    262 Notion alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. BookStack icon
     132 likes

    BookStack is a free and open source knowledge management platform built on PHP. The system has been built around simplicity to ensure that adding information to it is not a chore. The content structure is built on the metaphors of Books, Chapters & Pages.

    112 BookStack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
     
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  4. Docmost icon
     49 likes

    Open-source wiki and documentation solution offering real-time collaborative editing, robust permissions, group management, spaces for organizing content, inline commenting, full-page history, advanced full-text search, nested pages, attachments, and flexible storage.

    116 Docmost alternatives

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Cloudron
     
  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...

    130 XWiki alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Docker
     
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  6. 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.

    91 MediaWiki alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Sandstorm
     
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  7. 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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  8. 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 (.

    78 Wiki.js alternatives

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    • Cloudron
     
  9. BlueSpice is your tool for documentation and centrally collecting and sharing knowledge. BlueSpice turns Wikipedia’s popular software engine MediaWiki into a fully-fledged EnterpriseWiki solution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
    • MediaWiki
     
  10. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (40+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP + Smarty, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery and Bootstrap.

    126 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  11. Documize icon
     19 likes

    Documize creates the Enterprise Knowledge Backbone by unifying docs, wiki, reporting and dashboards — composition + coordination + discovery + distribution + workflows = faster business outcomes

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
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  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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