#1
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.
62.6k stars4.7k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
8 self-hosted Tana alternatives
Tana is an AI-enhanced workspace for building a personal knowledge base and managing tasks. It captures notes as structured, linked objects to enable searchable organization, templates, queries and daily workflows, and supports task tracking and relationship-based organization.
Alternatives to Tana
#2
Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge management app for networked notes, tasks, and collaboration using local Markdown or Org-mode graphs.
44.6k stars2.8k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Open-source hierarchical notes and personal knowledge base with rich editing, full-text search, encryption, scripting, and optional self-hosted sync and web access.
37.6k stars2.5k 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.
11k stars774 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Self-hosted, browser-based personal knowledge management platform with Markdown pages, wiki-style links, tasks, queries, and Lua scripting for automation.
5.9k stars471 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
Offline-first file manager and personal knowledge workspace that organizes local files with tags, fast search, previews, and optional local AI features.
5.3k stars513 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#7
Zim is a desktop wiki editor for personal notes, journals, and task lists, storing pages as plain text files with links, attachments, and plugin support.
2.2k stars397 forksGPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained
HabitSync is a self-hosted PWA habit tracker offering goals, challenges, social sharing, OIDC SSO, Apprise notifications, API-first design, and a mobile app.
334 stars7 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained
What replacing Tana 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. 8 of 8 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0, GPL-2.0, BSD-3-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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