Docmost
An open-source, self-hosted wiki for team documentation with real-time collaborative editing.
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About Docmost
Docmost is a documentation and wiki platform you deploy on your own servers as an alternative to Confluence and Notion. Pages are edited together in real time with live cursors, organized into team spaces, and can be shared publicly as wikis. It also offers bases and Kanban boards.
Access is managed with group-based permissions, and a page verification workflow tracks reviews and approvals. An optional AI suite adds search and chat and can use self-hosted models through Ollama or vLLM. Import from Confluence and Notion is supported, and enterprise plans are sold through sales.
Strengths
- Real-time collaborative editing with live cursors
- Self-hosted with group-based permissions
- Migration from Confluence and Notion
- Optional AI search that can use self-hosted models
Limitations
- Needs a server to run and maintain
- Some enterprise features are sold through sales
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree open-source edition, with paid enterprise plans.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Docmost
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Best suited for
- Teams that want a self-hosted wiki in place of Confluence or Notion
- Categories
- Note-taking, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Docmost
Compare allSoftware that can replace Docmost for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Confluence
Atlassian's web-based team workspace for writing, organizing and sharing documentation and internal knowledge.
Confluence is Atlassian's hosted team wiki with AI drafting and answers from pages, but content lives on Atlassian's servers and it is closed source.
Outline
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Wiki.js
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BookStack
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BookStack is an MIT self-hosted wiki with a fixed shelves, books and chapters hierarchy and LDAP, SAML and OIDC sign-in, requiring PHP and MySQL.
Notion
All-in-one workspace combining notes, databases, wikis, and task boards.
Notion is a hosted closed-source workspace with wikis, databases and real-time collaboration, so documentation lives on Notion's service rather than your server.
Nuclino
A collaborative team workspace for wiki pages, documents and projects in one place.
Nuclino is a hosted lightweight team wiki with a simple editor and instant search, removing server maintenance but keeping data on Nuclino's servers.
Slite
A hosted team knowledge base with AI features that keeps company documentation verified and current.
Slite is a hosted team knowledge base that marks documents as verified and uses AI to flag outdated pages, with documents on Slite's servers.
AppFlowy
Organize documents and projects in an open-source workspace.
AppFlowy is an AGPL-3.0 workspace for documents and projects with desktop and mobile clients and self-hosting options, aimed more at individuals than wiki teams.
Docmost as an alternative
Listings that name Docmost as an alternative.
HackMD
A web-based Markdown editor for writing and editing notes and documents together in real time.
Docmost is an open-source, self-hosted team wiki with real-time collaborative editing and live cursors, adding group permissions but requiring a server to maintain.
HedgeDoc
Collaborative Markdown editor for notes written together in real time.
Docmost is an open-source, self-hosted wiki with real-time collaborative editing and live cursors, organised as team documentation with group permissions rather than standalone Markdown pads.
Microsoft Loop
A collaborative workspace app from Microsoft with shared pages and live components across Microsoft 365.
Docmost is an open-source, self-hosted wiki with real-time collaborative editing and live cursors, keeping pages on your own server.
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