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HedgeDocBookStack
Free

The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…

 Free

The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…

Web, Self-hosted Web, Self-hosted
  • Real-time collaborative editing with a live Markdown preview
  • Presentation mode turns a note into slides without export
  • Fixed hierarchy makes large documentation sets easy to navigate
  • Granular permissions plus LDAP, SAML and OIDC sign-in
  • Version 2 has been in development for a long time while 1.x is what most people run
  • 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
Self-hosted, Web application Self-hosted, Web application
Open source Open source
License: AGPL-3.0 License: MIT
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

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 22, 2026

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