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Silverbullet

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Silver Bullet is an extensible, open source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, Silver Bullet goes a bit beyond just that.

Main page, showing normal text. This is all Markdown, and selecting any text will expose the Markdown syntax.

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Self-Hosted
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Distraction-free

Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Knowledge Management
  3.  Support for MarkDown
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Dark Mode
  6.  No Tracking
  7.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  8.  Portable
  9.  Live Preview
  10.  Full-Text Search

 Tags

  • personal-knowledge-management
  • end-user-programming

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Silverbullet information

  • Developed by

    US flagsilverbulletmd
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Alternatives

    44 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  3,432 Stars
  •  258 Forks
  •  239 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 13, 2025 
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Silverbullet was added to AlternativeTo by LunarLoony on Jan 11, 2023 and this page was last updated Jan 11, 2023.

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Top Positive Comment
green856
Jan 11, 2024
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I've been looking for an open source alternative to Obsidian and Logseq for a long time. It needs more work, but it's getting there.

I'm not a big fan of it being browser based, but at least it's self-hosted. I wish it could be used more as Obsidian is tho. Maybe in the future.

As it is, it works well and the editor is quite usable. It misses features that I'd like, but being as new as it is, I think the current state of the software is good and I'll be sure to check it out in the future for advances.

What is Silverbullet?

Silver Bullet is an extensible, open source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, Silver Bullet goes a bit beyond just that.

At its core it’s a clean markdown-based writing/note taking application that stores your pages (notes) as plain markdown files in a folder referred to as a space. Pages can be cross-linked using the [[link to other page]] syntax. This makes it a simple tool for Personal Knowledge Management. However, once you leverage its various extensions (called plugs) it can feel more like a knowledge platform, allowing you to annotate, combine and query your accumulated knowledge in creative ways specific to you.

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