20 self-hosted XWiki Cloud alternatives

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

66.1k stars10k forksMITlast commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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

21.5k stars1.5k forksAGPL-3.0last commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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

19k stars2.4k forksMITlast commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Collaborative note-taking, wiki, and documentation platform with real-time editing, access control, and offline support. Built with Django and React/Next.js.

16.8k stars620 forksMITlast commit 31 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

TiddlyWiki is a self-contained, highly customizable personal wiki that runs in the browser or on Node.js, enabling notes, knowledge bases, and documentation in one file.

8.6k stars1.3k forkslast commit 25 Aug 2026Actively maintained

DokuWiki is a lightweight, file-based wiki engine with ACL, versioning, and a rich plugin/template ecosystem for documentation and knowledge bases.

4.7k stars919 forksGPL-2.0last commit 24 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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 stars442 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 stars239 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 stars588 forksGPL-3.0last commit 22 Aug 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 stars124 forksMITlast commit 23 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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

615 stars76 forksMITlast commit 24 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Go-based flat-file wiki that stores content as Markdown with built-in search, version history, and access control, without an external database.

614 stars52 forksGPL-3.0last commit 21 Aug 2026Actively maintained

Lightweight filesystem wiki engine using Git for history and Mycomarkup for content, suited for personal wikis, digital gardens and small teams.

379 stars27 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 3 Sept 2025Slowing down

Silicon Notes is a lightweight personal knowledge base built with Flask. It offers Markdown editing, syntax highlighting, backlinks, full-text search, page history, and export/import.

264 stars6 forkslast commit 13 May 2026Actively maintained

Perl-based wiki engine focused on high-quality publishing, bookbuilding, EPUB/PDF output, Git and flat-file backends, and multi-database support.

219 stars30 forkslast commit 13 Aug 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 stars22 forksMPL-2.0last commit 23 Apr 2026Actively maintained

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

108 stars14 forksMITlast commit 26 Aug 2026Actively maintained

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

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

55 stars7 forksAGPL-3.0last commit 21 Aug 2026Actively maintained