DokuWiki Alternatives and Similar Software

DokuWiki is a popular wiki software that notably doesn't require a database. It uses plain-text files and has its own, very intuitive syntax for wiki content. Some might prefer an alternative for that matter, one with built-in Makrdown support.

DokuWiki is a self-hosted solution, so the most similar apps would be found under that platform. Like most self-hosted apps, it's open-source. Many freemium and commercial alternatives offer the benefit of iPhone and Android for creating wiki articles on the go, as well as web-based apps.

The list of alternatives was last updated: 9/18/2019 10:20:00 AM

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Zim

Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type. Creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "Create new note" button, by linking to a non-existing page or by writing a CamelCase name in any note.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
File Versioning Portable Text formatting Wiki-like interface ... Sync with Dropbox Git integration Hierarchical structure Latex Math Lightweight Nested Notes Notetaking Works Offline Plain text file Save as txt WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

390 Like
Notion

With so many tools, it's hard to keep everyone on the same page. Notion is a new tool that unifies them all. It's like Google Docs, but everything is organized and discoverable by your team. Real collaboration in real-time. Tired of your clunky wiki? With Notion, adding all types of content is as easy as drag & drop. Drag. Drop. Work as fluidly as you think. Love using Trello? Notion brings the same visual organization to every page.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Android Tablet iPad Software as a Service (SaaS)
MarkDown support Hierarchical structure Kanban boards Nested Notes ... Real time collaboration Wiki-like interface Blogging Collaborative writing Custom templates Data first Drag n drop Embedded media Google Drive integration Google Maps integration Integrated PDF Viewer Integrated Search Integration Intuitive Interface Knowledge base Latex Math Support for @mentions Nested lists Notetaking Real time collaboration Real time editing Slack integration Student discount Syntax Highlighting Team Collaboration To-Do management To do lists Visual bookmarks Youtube integration Add a feature

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CherryTree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

Free Open Source Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Hierarchical structure Infinite hierarchical depth Support for Android Things Code formatting ... Customizable Data portability Encryption Export to HTML Folder Tree Integrated Search MarkDown support Multiple languages Notetaking Password encryption Portable Rich text editing Export to PDF Syntax Highlighting Tablet support Tree structure Tree-style Tree view Add a feature

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TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is a single html file with all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because its a single file, its very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick. It has a broad range of tools and an ever expanding plethora of plugins.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web BSD ... Self-Hosted Xfce
Cross page linking Database Encrypted Notes File-sync ... Internal links MarkDown support Multiple languages Notetaking Password encryption Portable Standalone Support for NodeJS Wiki-like interface Add a feature

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MediaWiki

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, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.
- Many of the same features but much easier to configure. Guest • Jan 2019
Free Open Source Self-Hosted PHP Cloudron
Support for Multiple Users Web-Based Wiki-like interface Add a feature

129 Like
BookStack

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. BookStack uses a WYSIWYG editor to create and edit content so users don't have to memorise some particular mark-up.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted
Knowledge base Note Manager WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

51 Like
Nuclino

Nuclino is the easiest way to organize and share knowledge in teams. Create real-time collaborative documents and connect them instantly like a wiki. Use the tree, board, and graph view to explore and organize your knowledge visually. It's great for meeting notes, product requirements, docs, decisions, and more.
- A really slick and lightweight wiki alternative, easier to set up and maintain. stephenbarrow895 • Nov 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Nuclino is a more modern, easy-to-use alternative, DokuWiki feels very outdated. octave_clavet • Nov 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Nuclino is a lot more modern than DokuWiki. Fewer customization options, but that makes the experience a lot easier and faster, even for non-technical users like me. mflanagan009 • Nov 2018
Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS iPad
Real time collaboration Mind Map view WYSIWYG Support Kanban boards ... Lightweight MarkDown support Internal links Graph view Hierarchical structure Wiki-like interface Full text search Infinite hierarchical depth Minimalistic Team Collaboration Tree view Drag n drop Built-in editor Collaborative writing Knowledge base Knowledge Management Living documentation Notetaking Real time collaboration Share content Visual Editing Visual Organization Add a feature

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Confluence

Leading collaboration software and enterprise wiki for intranets and knowledge management.

Commercial $ $ $ Web Self-Hosted Cloudron
Batch image manipulation Business-wiki Jira integration Create Macro ... Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Knowledge Management Support for @mentions Real time collaboration REST API Third party integrations WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

57 Like
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

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. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge base, intranets, and extranets. It is actively developed by a very large international community. Tiki is the Open Source Web Application with the most built-in features.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted ... PHP
Web-Database Bug reporting CRM Data export/import ... Database Publishing FAQ Automation File management Group collaboration Knowledge Management Multiple languages Network intrusion detection system Export to PDF Search within wikis Web-Based Workflow Add a feature

89 Like
XWiki

XWiki is a powerful Open Source collaborative platform allowing companies of all sizes to save time and money while enhancing collaboration on both team and organizational level. Being focused on efficient communication and collaboration, XWiki redefines the value of business knowledge by allowing any user to access critical information in a fast and efficient way while reducing the organizational silos.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted
Blogging Built-in editor Business-wiki Extensibility ... File management File Searching Multiple languages Notetaking Real-time Real time collaboration Add a feature

62 Like
Wiki.js

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 (.md) files and that content is automatically synced with your remote Git repository. Your content is therefore safe and readable directly from your Git repository. Wiki.js runs on the blazing fast Node.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted
Built-in authentication Built-in search engine MarkDown support Real time collaboration Add a feature

16 Like
MDwiki

MDwiki is a CMS/Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client. No special software installation or server side processing is required. Just upload the mdwiki.html shipped with MDwiki into the same directory as your markdown files and you are good to go!
- Discontinued Project is not maintained as of October 2018 and the Github repo is archived. https://github.com/Dynalon/mdwiki/commit/35708693eb5b829334890ccca6b8b80c9497acb4
Free Open Source Self-Hosted
Extensible by Plugins/Extensions MarkDown support Portable Add a feature

17 Like
MemPad

MemPad is a plain text outliner and note taking program with a structured index. All pages are stored in a single file. User interface available in 20 languages. Unicode. The program offers standard editing functions including cut, copy, paste, undo, date/time insert, drag&drop, and supports Web links as well as network and local file or folder links (full path not required) and internal page links. Environment variables can be used in file links to run programs, for example.

Free Windows
Notetaking Add a feature

15 Like
Indigrid

A new medium for your ideas—augment your thinking with a text editor designed for structuring lists. Side-by-side views allow 3 modes of thinking. Indigrid lets you list and group pieces of text in a hierarchical tree structure: so that you can organize big networks of ideas and navigate them—because the emphasis is on manipulating the ideas, instead of designing a document. It is like a text editor for mind mapping, with more emphasis on text editing and no graphics.

Free Windows
Lightweight Portable Full text search Works Offline ... Side-by-Side View Tree structure Add a feature

12 Like
Raneto

Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted
Flat File CMS Knowledge base Knowledge Management Add a feature

7 Like
Banana Dance Wiki/CMS

Free open source software combining the best of wiki and CMS with community building-features.
- Discontinued Abandoned since 2015
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PHP
SEO tools WYSIWYG Support Add a feature

10 Like
Docsify.js

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.html to start and deploy it on GitHub Pages. See the Quick start for more details.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted
MarkDown support Add a feature

4 Like
Twiki

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 workspaces, manage documents and knowledge bases, and implement other collaborative tool.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Real time collaboration Add a feature

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WackoWiki

Wacko Wiki is a light and handy Wiki-engine. Features: full revision control, powerful diff between revisions, access control through per-page access control lists, What You Think Is What You Get editing, integrated page commenting functionality,page watching & email notification on changes/comments,design themes (skins) support, uploads per page or global, clusters & relative addressing, automatic table of contents generation, on-the-fly correction of punctual typos & spec.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted
Notetaking Add a feature

7 Like
Documize

Documize provides an Integrated Document Environment that adapts to the business, making it dead-simple for anyone to compose & contribute content and share knowledge. A single place to compose docs and share know-how, without the mess of email, chat apps and sync folders * Handles traditional documents and wiki style content * Integrates SaaS Data like GitHub, Trello, AirTable and more * Has both open source and enterprise edition

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted
Knowledge base Living documents MarkDown support Office & Productivity Add a feature

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SlimWiki

SlimWiki is an easy to use knowledge sharing platform for teams. With a beautifully simple editing experience, including easy management of images, videos and attachments, your team will be able to quickly share knowledge like never before. While simple, SlimWiki still offers powerful features like: - Teams - Powerful free-text search - Page collections - Page permissions - Full page version history - Custom logo - Custom domains - Google Apps for Work integration ...

Freemium Web
Knowledge base Add a feature

3 Like
Foswiki

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 applications from within your browser.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
Real time collaboration Add a feature

9 Like
Ardoq

Ardoq is a data-based documentation platform with a focus on connecting the business and IT sides of your organization. Our auto-generated visualizations help you understand your systems at a conceptual or strategic level. This makes Ardoq a powerful tool for organizing unstructured data – something that is becoming more and more necessary at the enterprise planning level.

Commercial Web
Automated diagrams Software as a Service Add a feature

8 Like
ikiwiki

Ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git. There are many other features, including support for blogging, as well as a large array of plugins.

Free Open Source Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

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BlueSpice for MediaWiki

This freely available OpenSource Software Wikipedia’s popular software engine MediaWiki into a fully-fledged EnterpriseWiki solution. Companies can continue cherishing MediaWiki’s numerous advantages and automation capabilities; with BlueSpice, they can now work even more comfortably, safely and more effectively. Compered with basic MediaWiki, BlueSpice provides, amongst other, the following enhancements: 1. Comfortable and sophisticated rights and user management capabilities. 2.

Free Mac Windows Linux Android Self-Hosted ... MediaWiki
Knowledge Management Real time collaboration Add a feature

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