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Knowledge management is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information. Repoly tracks 11 open-source knowledge management tools tools, each scored nightly from its repository activity and ranked by that score alone. AFFiNE Community Edition leads at 99/100 with 117 commits in the last 90 days and 74k stars, followed by SiYuan (99) and Atomic Server (93). 6 of the 11 score 70 or above, 7 publish a Docker image, and the median health is 72. MIT is the most common licence, carried by 5 of them. Between them they stand in for Notion, Google Docs, Evernote, Google Keep and Miro and 1 more proprietary products.
Most starred
73,981 stars on GitHub, the largest community in the category.
Most active
4,820 commits in the last 90 days, the fastest-moving codebase here.
Most permissive
MIT licence with health 93/100: the strongest option if you need to embed or fork commercially.
Ranked by health
Top pick · highest health
Next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, customizable and ready to use (alternative to Notion and Miro).
★ 74k 117 commits / 90d ⟳ 3 days ago MIT Docker
A privacy-first personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
★ 47k 4820 commits / 90d ⟳ today AGPL-3.0 Docker
Knowledge graph database with documents (similar to Notion), tables, search, and a powerful linked data API. Lightweight, very fast and no runtime dependencies.
★ 1.6k 1113 commits / 90d ⟳ today MIT Docker
Host and create your own mindmaps. Share your mindmap sessions with your team and collaborate live on mindmaps.
★ 516 142 commits / 90d ⟳ today MIT Docker
Collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales.
★ 17k 399 commits / 90d ⟳ today MIT
Create simple mindmaps (documentation in French).
★ 3 30 commits / 90d ⟳ 15 days ago AGPL-3.0
Web-based knowledge base solution. A simple web app, it runs on pretty much any web server or hosting provider with PHP and MySQL.
★ 62 17 commits / 90d ⟳ 3 days ago GPL-3.0
Structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode.
★ 2 66 commits / 90d ⟳ 5 days ago AGPL-3.0 Docker
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.
★ 2.5k 0 commits / 90d ⟳ 8 months ago MIT Docker
Manage your knowledge in documents with folders, markdown, full text search and webpage collection support.
★ 0 0 commits / 90d ⟳ unknown ⊘ Proprietary Docker
Online assessment software. From a quick quiz on your phone to large scale, high stakes, proctored desktop testing, easy, secure and economical.
★ 0 0 commits / 90d ⟳ unknown GPL-2.0
| # | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AFFiNE Community Edition Docker | 74k | 117 | MIT | 3 days ago | |
| 2 | SiYuan Docker | 47k | 4820 | AGPL-3.0 | today | |
| 3 | Atomic Server Docker | 1.6k | 1113 | MIT | today | |
| 4 | TeamMapper Docker | 516 | 142 | MIT | today | |
| 5 | Docs | 17k | 399 | MIT | today | |
| 6 | Digimindmap | 3 | 30 | AGPL-3.0 | 15 days ago | |
| 7 | LibreKB | 62 | 17 | GPL-3.0 | 3 days ago | |
| 8 | memEx Docker | 2 | 66 | AGPL-3.0 | 5 days ago | |
| 9 | Aleph Docker | 2.5k | 0 | MIT | 8 months ago | |
| 10 | Wiznote Docker | 0 | 0 | ⊘ Proprietary | unknown | |
| 11 | QST | 0 | 0 | GPL-2.0 | unknown |
AFFiNE Community Edition and SiYuan tie at 99/100. SiYuan is the busier codebase, with 4,820 commits in 90 days to 117. AFFiNE Community Edition also has the largest following, at 74k stars.
The most recent release is SiYuan v3.8.9, published yesterday. memEx publishes no tagged releases, which costs up to 25 of the 100 points. None of the measured options scores under 40. By stack, Nodejs (2), PHP (2) and Go (1) are the most common. AFFiNE Community Edition, Atomic Server, TeamMapper and 2 more are permissively licensed; SiYuan, Digimindmap, LibreKB and 2 more are copyleft. Wiznote is source-available rather than open source, which limits commercial reuse. Wiznote and QST are not hosted on a forge Repoly can read, so they have no measured score yet.
By Repoly's GitHub health score, AFFiNE Community Edition at 99/100 (117 commits in 90 days, v0.27.4 from 2 months ago). SiYuan is next at 99. The score measures maintenance, not features, so shortlist the top few and try them.
SiYuan (4,820 commits in 90 days), Atomic Server (1,113 commits in 90 days) and Docs (399 commits in 90 days). Commit activity is 35 of the 100 health points, the largest single term.
7 of 11 publish a Docker image or Compose file, led by AFFiNE Community Edition, SiYuan, Atomic Server, TeamMapper, memEx and 2 more.
5 of 11: AFFiNE Community Edition (MIT), Atomic Server (MIT), TeamMapper (MIT), Docs (MIT), Aleph (MIT). 5 are copyleft.
Notion (AFFiNE Community Edition ranks highest here), Google Docs (Docs ranks highest here), Evernote (SiYuan ranks highest here), Google Keep (SiYuan ranks highest here) and Miro (AFFiNE Community Edition ranks highest here), plus 1 more listed on the comparison pages.
