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Memos is a lightweight, privacy-first self-hosted note-taking service with Markdown, fast search, and sharing features for personal notes, wikis, and team knowledge.
61.8k stars4.6k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
5 self-hosted Memos Cloud alternatives
Cloud-hosted lightweight note-taking and personal knowledge management service for capturing, tagging, editing and searching memos. Supports Markdown-style formatting, tag-based organization, full-text search and a web interface for multi-device access.
Alternatives to Memos Cloud
#2
Joplin is an offline-first, privacy-focused note and to-do app with end-to-end encryption, Markdown support, web clipping, and sync across desktop and mobile.
55.8k stars6.2k forkslast commit Actively maintained
#3
Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge management app for networked notes, tasks, and collaboration using local Markdown or Org-mode graphs.
44.1k stars2.7k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#4
Open-source, self-hosted AI note-taking app for fast capture and organization, with Markdown notes and RAG-based natural language search.
10.8k stars761 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Self-hosted Google Keep–style notes app built with Vite + React and an Express + SQLite API. Supports Markdown, checklists, images, PWA, collaboration and Docker deployment.
597 stars52 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
What replacing Memos Cloud actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 4 of 5 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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