Self-Hosted Notes & Knowledge Base Tools (2026)

Ranked by how painless they are to run yourself — from one-click deploys and single docker run commands up to multi-service stacks. Lower difficulty first.

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Open-source Notion alternative built on Flutter and Rust

63k Dart AGPL-3.0 10 days ago
3/5

Lightweight, self-hosted note-taking and memo hub

40k Go MIT 7 days ago
2/5

Privacy-first personal knowledge management with block-level editing

36k TypeScript AGPL-3.0 6 days ago
2/5

Hierarchical note-taking app for building personal knowledge bases

12k TypeScript AGPL-3.0 13 days ago
2/5

Privacy-first, local-first workspace combining docs, whiteboards, and databases

51k TypeScript MIT 14 days ago
3/5

Open-source note-taking app with end-to-end encrypted sync

50k TypeScript AGPL-3.0 8 days ago
3/5

Fast, collaborative team knowledge base and wiki

33k TypeScript BSL-1.1 7 days ago
3/5

Modern, powerful, self-hosted wiki built on Node.js

26k JavaScript AGPL-3.0 1 month ago
3/5

Simple, self-hosted documentation and wiki platform

16k PHP MIT 11 days ago
3/5

Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software

15k TypeScript AGPL-3.0 9 days ago
3/5

End-to-end encrypted notes app with self-hostable sync server

6k TypeScript AGPL-3.0 18 days ago
3/5

Privacy-first, local-first outliner for networked notes

36k Clojure AGPL-3.0 26 days ago
4/5