Self-hosted Knowledge Management Tools software

Knowledge management is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information.

12 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Alternatives to NotionAlternatives to Confluence

SiYuan

Privacy-first personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

Actively maintained ★ 47.1k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Docs

Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.

Actively maintained ★ 17k MIT ~$5/mo

NoteDiscovery

Markdown note-taking app with plain-file storage, graph view, and MCP integration (alternative to Obsidian, Notion).

Actively maintained ★ 2.9k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Atomic Server

Knowledge graph database with documents (similar to Notion), tables, search, and a powerful linked data API. Lightweight, very fast and no runtime dependencies.

Actively maintained ★ 1.6k MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Marmot

Data catalog for discovering and organizing data assets across your stack, including databases, APIs, message queues, and pipelines.

Actively maintained ★ 629 MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

TeamMapper

Host and create your own mindmaps. Share your mindmap sessions with your team and collaborate live on mindmaps.

Actively maintained ★ 516 MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Aleph

Tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case.

Maintained ★ 2.5k MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

LibreKB

Web-based knowledge base solution. A simple web app, it runs on pretty much any web server or hosting provider with PHP and MySQL.

Actively maintained ★ 62 GPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

memEx

Structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode.

Actively maintained ★ 2 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Digimindmap

Create simple mindmaps (documentation in French).

Health unknown AGPL-3.0 ~$5/mo

QST

Online assessment software. From a quick quiz on your phone to large scale, high stakes, proctored desktop testing, easy, secure and economical.

Health unknown GPL-2.0 ~$3.5/mo

Wiznote

Manage your knowledge in documents with folders, markdown, full text search and webpage collection support.

Health unknown ⊘ Proprietary 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Related categories

Note-taking & EditorsWikisDatabase Management