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Self-hosted open-source wiki and docs platform: a Confluence and Notion alternative with real-time collaboration, spaces, Bases, diagrams, and full-text search.
"It seems like there's a lot of recent interest and effort in open-source or self-hosted Notion-like/markdown-with-widgets applications and platforms. AppFlowy (<a href="https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy">https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy</a>) comes to mind; I attended one of their monthly "town hall" meetings a few months back, and looks like they're rapidly increasing in popularity. [...]"
"I cannot recall why i did not go for wiki.js myself, I tried, but I kept looking. Ended up with <a href="https://docmost.com/" rel="nofollow">https://docmost.com/</a> and I've been quite happy. It's probably more equal to Notion then Wikipedia, but as a internal knowledge base it seem to be hit the right spot in terms simplicity and features."
| Project | License | Stars | Last release | Hosted | Docker | Zero terminal | Install path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AppFlowy | AGPL-3.0 | 75.0k | 2026-07-24 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Install path |
| Docmost | AGPL-3.0 | 21.3k | 2026-07-03 | Yes | Yes | No | Install path |