You Need A Wiki Alternatives

Apps similar to You Need A Wiki include Zim, which is free and open source. Other options are CherryTree, TiddlyWiki, BookStack and MediaWiki. You're spoiled for choice with Note-taking Tools like You Need A Wiki: we list more than 50 alternatives for the web, self-hosting, Windows, Linux and Mac.

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  1. An entire wiki in a single PHP file. Intended for small - medium sized wikis. Supports themes, multiple users, and uses a module-based approach to allow features to be added and removed at will.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  2. Documize icon
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    Documize creates the Enterprise Knowledge Backbone by unifying docs, wiki, reporting and dashboards — composition + coordination + discovery + distribution + workflows = faster business outcomes

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    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  3. WikkaWiki icon
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    WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight wiki engine written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. Forked from WakkaWiki. Designed for speed, extensibility, and security. Released under the GPL license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  4. Gitit icon
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    Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore. Pages and uploaded files can be modified either directly via the VCS's command-line tools or through the wiki's web interface. Pandoc is used for markup processing, so pages may be written in (extended)...

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. OneBar icon
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    OneBar is a Q&A Knowledge Base for your team. It is like StackOverflow or Quora, but it’s private for your team, optimized for collaboration, and integrates with the systems that you use at work.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Slack
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  6. Herodotus icon
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    Herodotus 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...

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    • Self-Hosted
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  7. VSNotes icon
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    VSNotes is a Visual Studio Code extension.

    VS Notes is a simple tool that takes care of the creation and management of plain text notes and harnesses the power of VS Code via the Command Palette.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
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  8. The Most Advanced WordPress Knowledge Base Plugin Build a WordPress Knowledge Base with access control, frontend editing, and many more power-packed | Helpie Knowledge Base Plugin

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Wordpress
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    Knowen is an experiment in progress that is being designed to organize, preserve, and expand human knowledge - placing it in a hierarchical knowledge base (graph) that makes it readily available to learners of all backgrounds and ages.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
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  10. NoteLynX is the unique, 3-in-1 Outliner, Mindmap and Personal Wiki with embedded Hyperlinks to cross reference your notes. NoteLynX also lets a child note have Multiple Parents, enabling it to belong to multiple lists.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
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  11. UserPress icon
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    UserPress is a wiki plugin for WordPress offering sophisticated functionality wrapped in a simple, intuitive interface. UserPress allows users to edit and create content using your front-end theme (as opposed to the wp-admin area), much like Wikipedia.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
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  12. KiloDoc icon
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    Create, share, and print vibrant docs without the headache of formatting text — for everything from notes to massive user manuals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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