Best Self-hosted Content & Publishing tools in 2026

Frappe Helpdesk is an open-source customer support platform with ticket management, agent and customer portals, SLAs, automation rules, and a knowledge base.

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Zendesk+19

Open-source DMS that OCRs, indexes, and manages scanned PDFs, TIFFs and images with tagging, versioning, metadata and full-text search support.

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DocuWare+7

Open-source, self-hosted social media manager for scheduling, publishing, analytics and team workflows; deploy via Docker or as a Laravel package.

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Hootsuite+13

Open-source no-code website builder to visually create fast static websites, with optional HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing and integrations for CMS and APIs.

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Webflow+11

Open source architecture documentation tool to model and document domains, services, events, and schemas for event-driven and microservice systems.

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Backstage+13

Squidex is an open-source headless CMS and content hub with REST and GraphQL APIs, workflows, versioning, and integrations for delivering content to any app or site.

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Contentful+19

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

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Atlassian Confluence+17

Gitit is a wiki engine that stores pages in a git-compatible repo, uses Pandoc for markup, and runs on Happstack.

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Atlassian Confluence+14

Self-hosted, secure platform for file sharing, collaboration, and document management with no vendor lock-in.

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Dropbox+19

Lightweight, privacy-focused self-hosted Markdown notes app with wikilinks, graph view, tags, templates, search, Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX math, and optional password prote...

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Notion+19

Self-hosted translation management platform to collaborate on localization, manage strings, and import/export translation files across common formats.

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Crowdin+6

Azimutt is a database exploration and documentation tool with scalable ERDs, an AML schema DSL, schema analysis, data navigation and multi-source connectors.

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dbdiagram.io+1

Docspell is a self-hosted document management system that imports scanned files and email attachments, runs OCR, and helps organize documents with tags, metadata, and sea...

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DocuWare+5

BroadcastChannel turns a public Telegram Channel into a fast, SEO-friendly microblog website with RSS feeds and minimal client-side JavaScript.

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Micro.blog+9

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

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Atlassian Confluence+15

Open-source Ruby on Rails blogging and publishing platform (formerly Typo) with themes, plugins, multilingual support and an official demo.

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WordPress.com+9

Ech0 is a lightweight open-source, self-hosted federated publishing platform (ActivityPub) with a Vue-based UI, SQLite storage, Docker deployment and built-in Markdown ed...

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Micro.blog+13

Manyfold is a self-hosted web app to organize, preview, and share 3D models for 3D printing, with tagging, metadata, and disk reorganization tools.

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Thingiverse+8

Elgg is a modular open source platform for building social networks and collaborative communities with plugin-based extensions.

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Facebook+12

Open-source multiplayer modification and engine for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that adds synchronized networking, Lua scripting, resource-based content, and a server b...

Open source headless CMS and real-time graph database with schema tooling, full-text search, tables, documents, files, and SDKs for web apps.

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Contentful+12

Winter CMS is a Laravel-based, self-hosted open-source CMS with a user-friendly backend and extensible plugin/theme architecture for websites and web apps.

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WordPress.com+10

MODX Revolution is an open source PHP CMS and content management framework for building highly customized websites and digital experiences with full control over markup a...

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WordPress.com+11

Bludit is a simple, fast flat-file CMS that stores content as JSON, enabling database-free websites and blogs with themes, plugins, and Markdown/HTML editing.

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WordPress.com+16

HTMLy is a fast, databaseless PHP blogging platform and flat-file CMS with built-in search, themes, categories/tags, and an admin dashboard for managing content.

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WordPress.com+8

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

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Atlassian Confluence+12

Open source electronic lab notebook (ELN) for documenting experiments, managing lab inventory, and coordinating equipment booking with granular permissions and auditing.

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LabArchives+3

Enterprise-grade open-source wiki platform for knowledge management, intranets and web applications.

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Atlassian Confluence+15

Enterprise-grade PHP CMS with multisite, multilingual and headless capabilities, extensible via Composer and an extensive extension ecosystem.

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Adobe Experience Manager+19

Open-source publishing platform enabling multi-user blogs, status updates, and media on your own site.

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WordPress.com+9