OpenSoft

Open source Wikis & knowledge base

XWiki

100 · Healthy

Enterprise wiki with structured pages, fine-grained rights and an extension system for building apps on top.

Free, share changesLGPL-2.1★ 1.3kLast commit today

Joplin

92 · Healthy

Note-taking app with notebooks, tags, web clipping and end-to-end encrypted sync across devices.

Free, share hosted changesAGPL-3.0-or-later★ 57kLast commit today

Docs (La Suite)

90 · Healthy

Real-time collaborative document editor from La Suite, the workplace tools built by the French and German governments.

Free to useMIT★ 17kLast commit 4 days ago

Memos

88 · Healthy

Lightweight timeline for quick notes and memos, searchable by tag and date.

Free to useMIT★ 64kLast commit today

Onyx

88 · Healthy

AI search and chat over your company's documents, with connectors for Slack, Google Drive, Confluence and more.

Free core, paid extrasMIT★ 32kLast commit today

Scalar

88 · Healthy

Interactive API reference docs and an API client, generated from OpenAPI documents.

Free to useMIT★ 16kLast commit today

AppFlowy

84 · Healthy

Collaborative workspace for docs, databases, kanban boards and wikis, with built-in AI.

Free core, paid extrasAGPL-3.0★ 77kLast commit 4 months ago

Logseq

78 · Stable

Outliner for notes and knowledge management, with daily journals, backlinks and a graph view.

Free, share hosted changesAGPL-3.0★ 45kLast commit yesterday

Notesnook

77 · Stable

End-to-end encrypted note-taking app with notebooks, tags, reminders and web clipping.

Free, share changesGPL-3.0★ 15kLast commit yesterday

AFFiNE

74 · Stable

Workspace that puts docs, whiteboards and databases on one canvas, usable offline or self-hosted.

Free core, paid extrasMIT★ 73kLast commit today

BookStack

74 · Stable

Wiki organized as shelves, books, chapters and pages, built on Laravel.

Free to useMIT★ 19kLast commit yesterday

Fumadocs

74 · Stable

React and Next.js framework for documentation sites, with search, MDX content and API reference pages.

Free to useMIT★ 13kLast commit today

Standard Notes

73 · Stable

End-to-end encrypted notes and files, with editors for Markdown, code, tasks and spreadsheets.

Free, share hosted changesAGPL-3.0★ 6.6kLast commit yesterday

SiYuan

70 · Stable

Block-based personal knowledge base with Markdown, backlinks, databases and end-to-end encrypted sync.

Free, share hosted changesAGPL-3.0★ 47kLast commit 5 days ago

Wiki.js

70 · Stable

Node.js wiki with Markdown and visual editors, Git sync and many auth providers.

Free, share hosted changesAGPL-3.0★ 29kLast commit yesterday

Docmost

64 · Stable

Collaborative wiki with real-time editing, spaces, permissions, comments and diagrams.

Free core, paid extrasAGPL-3.0★ 22kLast commit today

Colanode

54 · Caution

Local-first workspace that combines team chat, pages and databases, with a self-hosted sync server.

Free to useApache-2.0★ 5.2kLast commit 6 months ago

Source-available and unverified licenses

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Outline

72 · Stable

Fast team knowledge base with real-time collaborative editing and Slack integration.

Free, no resellingBusiness Source License 1.1★ 41kLast commit yesterday

Anytype

54 · Caution

Local-first, encrypted workspace of linked pages, objects and databases that syncs peer to peer.

Free with conditionsAny Source Available License 1.0★ 8.9kLast commit 6 days ago

XWiki

Enterprise wiki with structured pages, fine-grained rights and an extension system for building apps on top.

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Will it still be around?

Healthy

Score 100/100

Details

Can a business use it freely?

Free, share changes

LGPL-2.1 · open source (copyleft)

Details

Flat Rate Deploy

Monthly cost

XWiki on OpenSoft
$99
Confluence
$160

You save each month

$61/mo

38% less than today

Saving from month one

You save

Over 3 years
$2,196
In year one
$732

List price checked 7 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer

Health score: 100/100

Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub

Score v2 · How it works

Activity

45% weight

100/100

  • Last commit today (100/100).
  • 3563 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
  • 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).

Bus factor

30% weight

100/100

  • Top contributor wrote 24% of the last 98 commits (past 12 months).
  • 10 people authored those commits.

Responsiveness

25% weight

Not scored; its weight is shared by the other parts.

  • Issues are disabled on GitHub, so this part is not scored.

License

Free, share changes

LGPL-2.1 · Open source (copyleft)

What you need to do

Free for any use, commercial included. Running it in your company, changed or not, asks nothing of you; only if you hand modified copies to others must you publish your changes under the same license.

GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).

Detected by GitHub as LGPL-2.1.

GitHub activity

Stars
1.3k
Forks
670
Commits, 12 mo
3.6k
last today
Releases, 12 mo
50+
last 7 days ago
Contributors
226
10 in last 98 commits
Issues
Off
disabled on GitHub

Snapshot from 2026-10-09 · Funding: open collective

Top contributors

How points work

Points for pull requests merged into XWiki and reviews of them since 30 September 2026 (older history is still loading). Building something another user asked for earns more.

  1. 1290 points
  2. 2243 points
  3. 350 points
  4. 429 points
  5. 522 points
  6. 621 points
  7. 720 points
  8. 810 points
  9. 910 points
  10. 1010 points
Bespoke · we set it up$7,200onceFlat Rate Deploy$99/mo