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Benotes vs Servas: catalog facts
Benotes	Servas
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Notes and bookmarks in one place Markdown and rich text editing	Nested groups and tag-based smart groups Firefox and Chrome extensions
Still in beta and may have bugs No tagged releases; commits are infrequent	No page archiving Setup requires a few manual Docker steps
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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