Open-source alternatives to Notion
8 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Notion. Appflowy is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.
Side by side
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Appflowy | 77,551 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | Dart |
 Affine.pro | 73,652 | Active | Not identified | ○ | TypeScript |
 Outline | 40,968 | Active | Not identified | ○ | TypeScript |
 Focalboard | 26,519 | Slowing | Not identified | ○ | TypeScript |
 Docmost | 22,029 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
 Zettlr | 13,783 | Active | Copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
 Standardnotes | 6,669 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | TypeScript |
 Bangle-io | 1,236 | Active | Not identified | ○ | TypeScript |
Each one, briefly
- Appflowy77,551 stars · network copyleft · active
Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.
- Affine.pro73,652 stars · not identified · active
There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
- Outline40,968 stars · not identified · active
The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
Also replaces Atlassian Confluence
- Focalboard26,519 stars · not identified · slowing
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Also replaces Asana, Trello
- Docmost22,029 stars · network copyleft · active
Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.
Also replaces Atlassian Confluence
- Zettlr13,783 stars · copyleft · active
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
Also replaces Evernote, Obsidian, Scrivener
- Standardnotes6,669 stars · network copyleft · active
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
Also replaces Evernote, Onenote, Roam Research
- Bangle-io1,236 stars · not identified · active
A web only WYSIWYG note taking app that saves notes locally in markdown format. v2: https://app.bangle.io/
Also replaces Evernote, Google Docs
Where this comes from
Which projects are offered against Notion comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Notion. Browse every open-source alternative.