Best self-hosted Wikis apps

A wiki is a publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly using a web browser.

27 open source Wikis tools you host on your own server — with full control of your data and no per-user cost.

Outline

★ 39,025

Outline is a fast, beautiful wiki for team documentation, with powerful search and a modern editor. Self-hosted, it's the alternative to Notion/Confluence for the company's knowledge base.

Wikis BUSL-1.1

Wiki.js

★ 28,480

Wiki.js is a modern, lightweight wiki built on Git and Markdown, with access control and visual editors. Hosted by you, it keeps documentation versioned and under your domain.

Wikis AGPL-3.0

docmost

★ 20,700

Collaborative wiki and documentation software (alternative to Confluence, Notion).

Wikis AGPL-3.0

Gollum

★ 14,283

Simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

Wikis MIT

TiddlyWiki

★ 8,599

Reusable non-linear personal web notebook.

Wikis BSD-3-Clause

Dokuwiki

★ 4,652

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.

Wikis GPL-2.0

Raneto

★ 2,893

Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files.

Wikis MIT

Documize

★ 2,407

Modern Docs + Wiki software with built-in workflow, single binary executable, just bring MySQL/Percona.

Wikis AGPL-3.0

Gitit

★ 2,274

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.

Wikis GPL-2.0

Zim

★ 2,180

Graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.

Wikis GPL-2.0

django-wiki

★ 1,923

Wiki system with complex functionality for simple integration and a superb interface. Store your knowledge with style: Use django models.

Wikis GPL-3.0

Otter Wiki

★ 1,461

Simple, easy to use wiki software using markdown.

Wikis MIT

XWiki

★ 1,273

Second generation wiki that allows the user to extend its functionalities with a powerful extension-based architecture.

Wikis LGPL-2.1

Wiki-Go

★ 590

A modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform.

Wikis GPL-3.0

WikiDocs

★ 505

A databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine.

Wikis MIT

LeafWiki

★ 482

A fast wiki for people who think in folders, not feeds. Fast editing. Tree navigation. Markdown on disk.

Wikis MIT

Mycorrhiza Wiki

★ 375

Filesystem and git-based wiki engine written in Go using Mycomarkup as its primary markup language.

Wikis AGPL-3.0

AmuseWiki

★ 216

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.

Wikis GPL-1.0

Oddmuse

★ 89

Simple wiki engine written in Perl. No database required.

Wikis GPL-3.0

Tiki

★ 81

Wiki CMS Groupware with the most built-in features.

Wikis LGPL-2.1

WackoWiki

★ 55

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine.

Wikis BSD-3-Clause

W

★ 53

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.

Wikis AGPL-3.0

BookStack

Organize and store information. Stores documentation in a book like fashion.

Wikis MIT

Feather Wiki

A 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.

Wikis AGPL-3.0

Mediawiki

Wiki software package that powers Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, serving hundreds of millions of users each month.

Wikis GPL-2.0

PmWiki

Wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

Wikis GPL-3.0

WiKiss

Wiki, simple to use and install.

Wikis GPL-2.0

Frequently asked questions

What are the best self-hosted Wikis tools?

Among the 27 options, the most popular include Outline, Wiki.js, docmost. Compare license, platform and popularity in the list below.

Is there a free open source alternative for Wikis?

Yes — all 27 tools on this page are open source and you run them on your own server, with no monthly fee.

Where can I host a Wikis app?

On a home server (homelab) or a cheap VPS from ~€4/mo. See the suggestions on this page.