Herodotus is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 50 alternatives to Herodotus for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and SaaS apps. The best Herodotus alternative is TiddlyWiki, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Herodotus are Ibis Wiki, MediaWiki, BookStack and DokuWiki.