20 self-hosted Helpjuice alternatives

An open source static site generator for building and maintaining documentation and project websites with Markdown/MDX, React, versioning, and i18n.

65.7k stars10k forksMITlast commit 23 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Outline is a fast, collaborative knowledge base for teams, featuring markdown docs, real-time editing, AI-powered search, and Slack integrations.

39.9k stars3.5k forkslast commit 28 Jul 2026Actively maintained

A modern, extensible Node.js wiki with Markdown editing, powerful admin tools, multiple auth options, and support for popular SQL databases.

28.7k stars3.3k forksAGPL-3.0last commit 1 May 2026Actively maintained

Open-source Confluence/Notion alternative for team wikis and documentation with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, diagrams, and search.

21.1k stars1.5k forksAGPL-3.0last commit 21 Jul 2026Actively maintained

BookStack is a simple documentation and wiki platform with a WYSIWYG and optional Markdown editor, full-text search, permissions, and integrated authentication.

18.9k stars2.4k forksMITlast commit 23 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Git-backed wiki engine that supports multiple markup formats, an integrated editor, and features like diagrams, math rendering, citations, and RSS feeds.

14.3k stars1.6k forksMITlast commit 31 Aug 2025Slowing down

Raneto is an open-source, file-based Markdown knowledge base for Node.js with web editing, full-text search, theming, and optional login protection—no database required.

2.9k stars443 forksMITlast commit 18 Mar 2026Actively maintained

Documize is a self-hosted knowledge base and documentation platform for internal and external docs, offering spaces, labels, search, and enterprise-friendly authentication.

2.4k stars236 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 18 May 2026Actively maintained

Extensible Django wiki application with Markdown pages, versioning, permissions, and a pluggable architecture for integrating knowledge bases into Django sites.

1.9k stars590 forksGPL-3.0last commit 23 Jun 2026Actively maintained

A minimalistic wiki for collaborative documentation, storing pages in Git and editing in Markdown with version history, attachments, and user authentication.

1.5k stars119 forksMITlast commit 24 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Open-source server for hosting multiple static documentation projects with versioning, CLI upload, tagging and built-in search.

905 stars55 forksMITlast commit 22 Jun 2026Actively maintained

Open-source, Markdown-based flat-file CMS for documentation, knowledge bases, manuals and eBook generation with plugins, themes and AI-assisted editing.

610 stars76 forksMITlast commit 18 Jul 2026Actively maintained

A compact, single-file PHP wiki engine offering page history, file uploads, tagging, themes and collaborative editing for small to medium sites.

206 stars21 forksMPL-2.0last commit 23 Apr 2026Actively maintained

Web app and API server that publishes Markdown notes as websites and exposes REST APIs for programmatic access, with Obsidian-flavored Markdown and full-text search.

180 stars3 forksMITlast commit 21 Oct 2024Likely dormant

Modern, lightweight static wiki and documentation site generator using Markdown and Next.js with TypeScript-configurable navigation and themes.

100 stars12 forksMITlast commit 29 Dec 2025Slowing down

Oddmuse is a single-file Perl wiki engine that stores pages on the filesystem, offers page versioning, themes and extensions, and runs under CGI or Mojolicious.

89 stars14 forksGPL-3.0last commit 25 Jul 2025Slowing down

Self-hosted knowledge base web app in PHP/MySQL with Bootstrap UI and TinyMCE editor, offering categories, full-text search, user groups, email password resets and Docker support.

60 stars10 forksGPL-3.0last commit 29 Dec 2025Slowing down

Lightweight PHP wiki/CMS for spontaneous, heterogeneous websites; flat-file JSON storage, Markdown editing, media manager, themes, RSS, and mobile-friendly editing.

55 stars5 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 26 Jul 2026Actively maintained

Lightweight PHP wiki engine offering WYSIWYG editing, per-page ACLs, revision control, themes, file uploads, and support for MariaDB/MySQL/SQLite.

55 stars9 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit 27 Jul 2026Actively maintained

PmWiki is a PHP-based wiki CMS for collaboratively building and maintaining websites with simple markup, skins, extensions, file uploads, and granular access control.

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