Documize
Modern Docs + Wiki software with built-in workflow, single binary executable, just bring MySQL/Percona.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push May 2026.
Comparisons in Wikis: Confluence alternatives.
At a glance
Documize quick facts
- Health score
- 38/100 STALE
- Stars
- 2,424
- Last commit
- 6 months ago (May 2026)
- Latest release
- v5.14.0, Sep 2025
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Documize Community is an open source, modern, self-hosted, enterprise-grade knowledge management solution."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Documize scores 38/100, #20 of 24 in Wikis: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v5.14.0, 1.1 years ago) earns 14.5 of 25, 2,424 stars add 13.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 14.5 / 25
v5.14.0 released 1.1 years ago
- Stars 13.5 / 20
2.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 1
- Last 12 months
- 6 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #20 of 24 tools in Wikis by health , between Feather Wiki (#19) and Gitit (#21) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Go |
| Latest release | v5.14.0 · 1.1 years ago |
| Stars | 2,424 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | documize/community ↗ |
Documize vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Documize (Wikis), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outline | 98 | 41k | BUSL-1.1 | today |
| Wiki.js | 98 | 29k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| docmost Community Edition | 97 | 22k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Otter Wiki | 93 | 1.6k | MIT | 5 days ago |
| LeafWiki | 92 | 1.2k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| Documize (this tool) | 38 | 2.4k | AGPL-3.0 | 6 months ago |
Documize: common questions
Is Documize still maintained?
Documize had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 6 months ago; the latest tagged release, v5.14.0, is from 1.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.