Open Source Self-Hosted Laverna Alternatives

There are many alternatives to Laverna as a self-hosted solution and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best open source Self-Hosted alternative is TagSpaces. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Laverna and 15 are open source and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Self-Hosted alternatives to Laverna are Trilium Notes, Turtl, Nextcloud Notes and OpenNote.

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  1. TagSpaces icon

    TagSpaces

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    Privacy-first, multi-device organizer for files and folders with customizable tags, color labels, note editing in markdown or HTML, Kanban boards, S3 object storage support, web page clipping, vendor lock-in free filename tagging, open source option, and multi-format preview.

    100 TagSpaces alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Cross-platform file tagging
     
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    TagSpaces vs Laverna Comments
    Danilo Venom
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    With TagSpaces you can create and edit notes in plain text, markdown and HTML.

    John Fastman
    Positive
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    TagSpaces reads/saves files locally. You can sync those however you wish. It supports note taking (plain text and html), tagging (labels), text search, and works with many file formats. The basic version (which is v. good) is open source & free; advanced features cost a little. Not perfect, but excellent.

    • TagSpaces is Freemium and Open SourceLaverna is Free and Open Source
    • TagSpaces is Privacy focusedLaverna is not according to our users
  4. Turtl icon

    Turtl

     179 likes

    Whether it's bookmarks or passwords, files or shopping lists...Turtl organizes it all and makes it easy to find later. Sync across your devices. Leave nothing behind.

    193 Turtl alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
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  5. Nextcloud Notes icon

    Nextcloud Notes

     30 likes

    Distraction-free note-taking app featuring categories for organization, Markdown formatting, favorites, and seamless integration with Nextcloud clients. Enables syncing across devices, API integration with third-party apps, offline access, and privacy-focused storage.

    100 Nextcloud Notes alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
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  9. Encryptic icon

    Encryptic

     15 likes

    Encryptic is an open-source note-taking application heavily focused on encryption. When you start writing, no one will know what you write except for you. We don’t know and we don’t want to know. That’s between you and your work.

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    • Discontinued

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    • RemoteStorage
     
  10. Piggydb icon

    Piggydb

     56 likes

    Piggydb is a Web notebook application that provides you with a platform to build your knowledge personally or collaboratively. With Piggydb, you can create highly structured content by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Permanote icon

    Permanote

     1 like

    permanote - A note-taking application for Sandstorm

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Sandstorm.io
     
  12. Tracks icon

    Tracks

     36 likes

    Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. It was built using Ruby on Rails, and comes with a built-in webserver (WEBrick), so that you can run it on your own computer if you like.

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    • Online
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  13. Knowfox icon

    Knowfox

     8 likes

    Personal Knowledge Management.

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    • Linux
    • Online
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    View of a bookmarked webpage with extracted markup
     
  14. Meemo icon

    Meemo

     7 likes

    Quickly filter and search for notes using categories based on hash tags. Additional full text search allows to find notes, even without tagging and never lose an idea again.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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