Skip to content
Forkshelf

Self-hosted alternatives

Open source alternatives to Confluence

Confluence is Atlassian's hosted wiki for team documentation.

Published by Atlassian. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 5 of 6 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.

More in Docs and wikis

  1. 1Outline

    outline/outline

    Docs and wikis. Licence: Source-available (BUSL-1.1). Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    Source-available (BUSL-1.1)
    GitHub stars
    40,902
    Last commit

    Does not count toward the open source minimum: Source-available (BUSL-1.1).

    Repository on GitHubProject site

    Also listed as an alternative to Notion.

  2. 2Wiki.js

    requarks/wiki

    Docs and wikis. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    AGPL-3.0
    GitHub stars
    29,039
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

    Also listed as an alternative to Notion.

  3. 3BookStack

    BookStackApp/BookStack

    Docs and wikis. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    19,082
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  4. 4Mediawiki

    wikimedia/mediawiki

    Docs and wikis. Licence: GPL-2.0-or-later. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    GPL-2.0-or-later
    GitHub stars
    5,200
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  5. 5DokuWiki

    dokuwiki/dokuwiki

    Docs and wikis. Licence: GPL-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    GPL-2.0
    GitHub stars
    4,726
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  6. 6XWiki

    xwiki/xwiki-platform

    Docs and wikis. Licence: LGPL-2.1. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    LGPL-2.1
    GitHub stars
    1,318
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

Related comparisons

Also in Docs and wikis