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BookStack vs Gitit: catalog facts
BookStack	Gitit
Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Fixed hierarchy makes large documentation sets easy to navigate Granular permissions plus LDAP, SAML and OIDC sign-in	Pages stored in Git, editable outside the wiki Pandoc rendering with support for several markup formats
PHP, MySQL and a web server are required; there is no single-binary option The rigid structure gets in the way if you want a free-form wiki	Building from source needs the Haskell toolchain No published GitHub releases
Self-hosted, Web application	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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