TriliumNext Notes
Cross-platform hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases (fork of Trilium Notes).
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 7,543 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.106.1 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
TriliumNext Notes quick facts
- Health score
- 98/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 38,621
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.106.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to TriliumNext Notes
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Arabic | Chinese (Simplified Han script) | Chinese (Traditional Han script) | Czech | English (United Kingdom) | English | French | German | Greek | Indonesian | Irish | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Polish | Romanian | Russian | Spanish | Ukrainian | Urdu | Uyghur | Vietnamese."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
TriliumNext Notes scores 98/100, #2 of 21 in Note-taking & Editors: 7,543 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.106.1, 7 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 38,621 stars add 18.3 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 1.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
7543 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.106.1 released 7 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 18.3 / 20
39k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 7543
- Last 90 days
- 20,366
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 21 tools in Note-taking & Editors by health , between Memos (#1) and HedgeDoc (#3) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Docker, K8S |
| Latest release | v0.106.1 · 7 days ago |
| Stars | 38,621 |
| Open issues | 569 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | TriliumNext/Trilium ↗ |
TriliumNext Notes vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with TriliumNext Notes (Note-taking & Editors), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TriliumNext Notes (this tool) | 98 | 39k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| SilverBullet | 95 | 6.4k | MIT | today |
| Many Notes | 92 | 1.1k | MIT | 6 days ago |
| Joplin | 89 | 57k | MIT | yesterday |
| plumio | 89 | 141 | AGPL-3.0 | 9 days ago |
| Docs | 87 | 17k | MIT | today |
TriliumNext Notes: common questions
Is TriliumNext Notes still maintained?
TriliumNext Notes had 7,543 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v0.106.1, is from 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
Run itSponsored
Run TriliumNext Notes on a VPS from $4/mo
TriliumNext Notes ships a Docker image, so any of these providers can run it on a small instance.
- is*hosting NVMe VPS in 20+ locations, hourly billing from $5/mo Deploy ↗
- ProHoster VPS with DDoS protection included from $4/mo Deploy ↗
- GODLIKE Game and app servers on NVMe from $4/mo Deploy ↗
Affiliate links. Repoly may earn a commission, which never affects health scores.