Self-hosted alternatives to SharePoint
Want intranet and document management without handing your data to SharePoint? These 30 self-hosted apps run on your own server. Cheapest estimated hosting starts at about $3.5/month.
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| App | Health | Stars | License | Docker | RAM (est.) | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outline | Active | 41.2k | BUSL-1.1 | ✓ | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Wiki.js | Active | 29.2k | AGPL-3.0 | ✓ | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| docmost Community Edition | Active | 22.2k | AGPL-3.0 | ✓ | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| TiddlyWiki | Active | 8.7k | BSD-3-Clause | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Dokuwiki | Active | 4.7k | GPL-2.0 | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Gitit | Active | 2.3k | GPL-2.0 | – | 512 MB | $3.5/mo |
| Zim | Active | 2.2k | GPL-2.0 | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Sync-in | Active | 2k | AGPL-3.0 | ✓ | 4 GB | $20/mo |
| django-wiki | Active | 1.9k | GPL-3.0 | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Otter Wiki | Active | 1.6k | MIT | ✓ | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| XWiki | Active | 1.3k | LGPL-2.1 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| LeafWiki | Active | 1.2k | MIT | ✓ | 512 MB | $3.5/mo |
| Colanode | Maintained | 5.2k | Apache-2.0 | ✓ | 4 GB | $20/mo |
| Signature PDF | Active | 832 | AGPL-3.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| Openmeetings | Active | 688 | Apache-2.0 | ✓ | 4 GB | $20/mo |
| Mayan EDMS | Active | 682 | GPL-2.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| Wiki-Go | Active | 625 | GPL-3.0 | ✓ | 512 MB | $3.5/mo |
| Raneto | Maintained | 2.9k | MIT | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Papermerge | Active | 552 | Apache-2.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| WikiDocs | Active | 533 | MIT | ✓ | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Documize | Maintained | 2.4k | AGPL-3.0 | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| egroupware | Active | 302 | GPL-2.0 | – | 4 GB | $20/mo |
| Tracim | Active | 275 | AGPL-3.0, LGPL-3.0, MIT | – | 4 GB | $20/mo |
| AmuseWiki | Active | 221 | GPL-1.0 | ✓ | 512 MB | $3.5/mo |
| SimpleDMS | Active | 170 | AGPL-3.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| EveryDocs | Maintained | 429 | GPL-3.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| Tiki | Active | 86 | LGPL-2.1 | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| W | Active | 57 | AGPL-3.0 | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| WackoWiki | Active | 55 | BSD-3-Clause | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
| Feather Wiki | Maintained | 96 | AGPL-3.0 | – | 1 GB | $5/mo |
The options in detail
1. Outline
Extensible wiki for your team.
Active Last commit 2026-11-05. Latest release v1.12.0 (2026-10-23). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
2. Wiki.js
Modern, lightweight and powerful wiki app using Git and Markdown.
Active Last commit 2026-11-05. Latest release 3.0.2 (2026-11-02). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
3. docmost Community Edition
Collaborative wiki and documentation software (alternative to Confluence, Notion).
Active Last commit 2026-11-05. 10+ releases in the past year. Latest release v0.97.0 (2026-10-25). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
4. TiddlyWiki
Reusable non-linear personal web notebook.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. Latest release v5.4.1 (2026-07-10). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
5. Dokuwiki
Easy to use, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine with a simple syntax allowing reading the data outside the wiki. All data is stored in plain text files, therefore no database is required.
Active Last commit 2026-09-29. 4 releases in the past year. Latest release release-2026-07-14c (2026-09-02). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
6. Gitit
Wiki program that stores pages and uploaded files in a git repository, which can then be modified using the VCS command line tools or the wiki's web interface.
Active Last commit 2026-10-25. Needs roughly 512 MB RAM. How to run it →
7. Zim
Graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.
Active Last commit 2026-10-24. Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
8. Sync-in
File storage, syncing, sharing, and collaboration with real-time editing, permission management, and desktop/CLI clients.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. Latest release v2.6.2 (2026-11-01). Needs roughly 4 GB RAM. How to run it →
9. django-wiki
Wiki system with complex functionality for simple integration and a superb interface. Store your knowledge with style: Use django models.
Active Last commit 2026-10-16. 1 release in the past year. Latest release releases/0.13 (2026-07-31). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
10. Otter Wiki
Simple, easy to use wiki software using markdown.
Active Last commit 2026-11-01. Latest release v2.26.2 (2026-11-01). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
11. XWiki
Second generation wiki that allows the user to extend its functionalities with a powerful extension-based architecture.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. Latest release xwiki-platform-18.4.8 (2026-11-03). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
12. LeafWiki
Fast wiki for people who think in folders, not feeds. Fast editing. Tree navigation. Markdown on disk.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. Latest release v0.14.2 (2026-10-22). Needs roughly 512 MB RAM. How to run it →
13. Colanode
Collaboration suite with real-time messaging, rich text pages, file management, and dynamic databases - built for offline work (alternative to Slack, Notion).
Maintained Last commit 2026-04-03. 8 releases in the past year. Latest release v0.4.7 (2026-04-03). Needs roughly 4 GB RAM. How to run it →
14. Signature PDF
Sign and manipulate PDFs with collaboration, organization, compression and metadata editing.
Active Last commit 2026-10-21. 3 releases in the past year. Latest release v1.11.0 (2026-10-22). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
15. Openmeetings
Video conferencing, instant messaging, whiteboard, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
Active Last commit 2026-11-03. 2 releases in the past year. Latest release 9.1.0 (2026-07-14). Needs roughly 4 GB RAM. How to run it →
16. Mayan EDMS
Electronic document management system for your documents with preview generation, OCR, and automatic categorization among other features.
Active Last commit 2026-09-21. Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
17. Wiki-Go
Modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform.
Active Last commit 2026-11-05. Latest release v1.9.2 (2026-09-22). Needs roughly 512 MB RAM. How to run it →
18. Raneto
Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files.
Maintained Last commit 2026-03-18. Latest release 0.18.1 (2026-03-11). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
19. Papermerge
Document management system focused on scanned documents (electronic archives). Features file browsing in similar way to dropbox/google drive. OCR, full text search, text overlay/selection.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. Latest release 3.5.3 (2025-08-18). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
20. WikiDocs
Databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine.
Active Last commit 2026-10-25. Latest release 2.0.2 (2026-10-25). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
21. Documize
Modern Docs + Wiki software with built-in workflow, single binary executable, just bring MySQL/Percona.
Maintained Last commit 2026-05-18. Latest release v5.14.0 (2025-09-19). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM incl. mysql. How to run it →
22. egroupware
Software suite including calendars, address books, notepad, project management tools, client relationship management tools (CRM), knowledge management tools, a wiki and a CMS.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. 10+ releases in the past year. Latest release 26.10.20261030 (2026-10-30). Needs roughly 4 GB RAM. How to run it →
23. Tracim
Collaborative Platform for team collaboration: file,threads,notes,agenda,etc.
Active Last commit 2026-10-28. Latest release release_04.12.00 (2024-12-23). Needs roughly 4 GB RAM. How to run it →
24. AmuseWiki
Amusewiki is based on the Emacs Muse markup, remaining mostly compatible with the original implementation. It can work as a read-only site, as a moderated wiki, or as a fully open wiki or even as a private site.
Active Last commit 2026-11-02. Needs roughly 512 MB RAM. How to run it →
25. SimpleDMS
Easy-to-use, metadata-driven, document management system (DMS) for small businesses that sorts documents almost by itself.
Active Last commit 2026-10-30. Latest release v1.18.1 (2026-11-03). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
26. EveryDocs
Simple Document Management System for private use with basic functionality to organize your documents digitally.
Maintained Last commit 2026-08-03. Latest release v1.0 (2019-10-16). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
27. Tiki
Wiki CMS Groupware with the most built-in features.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
28. W
Lightweight, mutli-user, flat-file-database Wiki engine. Create pages quickly and edit them in your Web browser using Mardown/HTML/CSS/JS. The main difference with other wiki is that you are encouraged to customize each page style individually.
Active Last commit 2026-10-26. Latest release v3.19.0 (2026-10-06). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
29. WackoWiki
Light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine.
Active Last commit 2026-11-03. Latest release 6.3.0 (2026-07-18). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
30. Feather Wiki
Lightning fast and infinitely extensible tool for creating personal non-linear notebooks, databases, and wikis that is entirely self-contained, runs in your browser, and is only 58 kilobytes in size.
Maintained Last commit 2026-08-02. 2 releases in the past year. Latest release 1.9.1 (2026-07-20). Needs roughly 1 GB RAM. How to run it →
Why self-host instead of SharePoint?
- Own your data — it lives on a server you control, with backups you decide on.
- Predictable cost — a small VPS often replaces per-seat pricing for a whole team or family.
- No lock-in — open-source licenses let you keep running the software even if a vendor disappears.
The trade-off: you are responsible for updates, backups and security. Pick an app marked Active (a commit in the last 90 days) and with Docker support for the easiest ride.
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