We track 11 open-source Notion alternatives, of which 8 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 9 ship a Docker image. AFFiNE Community Edition leads on health at 99/100 with 160 commits in the last 90 days; across all 11 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, BUSL-1.1 and 2 other licences.
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Next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, customizable and ready to use (alternative to Notion and Miro).
★ 73k · ⟳ yesterday · v0.27.4 · MIT
Knowledge base that works with a SQLite db file.
★ 63k · ⟳ today · v0.30.0 · MIT
A privacy-first personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
★ 46k · ⟳ today · v3.8.3 · AGPL-3.0
Extensible wiki for your team.
★ 41k · ⟳ today · v1.10.1 · BUSL-1.1
All-in-one project management platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion).
★ 28k · ⟳ 18 days ago · v0.7.426 · EPL-2.0
Collaborative wiki and documentation software (alternative to Confluence, Notion).
★ 22k · ⟳ 2 days ago · v0.96.0 · AGPL-3.0
Note taking application with markdown editor and encryption support for mobile and desktop platforms. Runs client-side and syncs through a self hosted Nextcloud instance or similar (alternative to Evernote).
★ 56k · ⟳ today · v3.7.18 · MIT
Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.
★ 17k · ⟳ today · v5.6.1 · MIT
Modern, lightweight and powerful wiki app using Git and Markdown.
★ 29k · ⟳ today · v2.5.314 · AGPL-3.0
Collaboration suite with real-time messaging, rich text pages, file management, and dynamic databases - built for offline work (alternative to Slack, Notion).
★ 5.1k · ⟳ 5 months ago · v0.4.7 · Apache-2.0
Organize and store information. Stores documentation in a book like fashion.
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AFFiNE Community Edition scores highest at 99/100, with 160 commits in the last 90 days, 73k GitHub stars and its latest release (v0.27.4) published 27 days ago. SiYuan has the most raw commit activity at 3709 commits in 90 days.
6 of 11 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): AFFiNE Community Edition (MIT), Memos (MIT), Joplin (MIT), Docs (MIT), Colanode (Apache-2.0), BookStack (MIT). 4 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.
9 of 11 publish a Docker image or Compose file: AFFiNE Community Edition, Memos, SiYuan, Outline, Huly, docmost Community Edition and 3 more. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.