Memos vs SiYuan
A side-by-side comparison of Memos and SiYuan — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | Lightweight, self-hosted note-taking and memo hub | Privacy-first personal knowledge management with block-level editing |
| Category | Notes & Knowledge Base | Notes & Knowledge Base |
| Replaces | Evernote, Notion | Notion, Obsidian, Evernote |
| GitHub stars | 40k | 36k |
| Language | Go | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | Docker Manual | Docker Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 7 days ago | 6 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
