Dendron
dendronhq/dendron
An open-source alternative to Roam Research.
The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do! (from the repository)
- Stars
- 7,467
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Last push
- 2025-11-13
- Written in
- TypeScript
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Slowing
Last push 12 months ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Ships untagged
No tagged release
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
56% closed
782 open · 980 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+3 in 9 days
7,467 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
PermissiveApache-2.0
Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Dendron’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.
Dendron against the other open-source options
Every project offered against Roam Research, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Logseq | 45,291 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | Clojure |
 Trilium Notes | 38,399 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
 Dendron (this page) | 7,467 | Slowing | Permissive | ○ | TypeScript |
 Standardnotes | 6,669 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
 Unigraph | 767 | Quiet | Permissive | ○ | TypeScript |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with Roam Research and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data