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AFFiNE

Open-source Notion & Miro alternative combining docs, whiteboards, and databases.

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  • Getting Started Doc

    Rich-text document editor showing formatted text, tables, and advanced blocks.

  • Edgeless Whiteboard

    Infinite canvas whiteboard mode for the same document, with a mind-map and sticky notes.

  • All Docs

    Workspace document library listing every doc and journal entry.

  • Settings

    Appearance, editor, workspace preferences, and team member management.

  • Admin Panel — Accounts

    Self-hosted admin panel for managing user accounts and roles.

About this app

AFFiNE is a privacy-first, local-first knowledge base that merges document editing, visual whiteboarding, and structured databases into a single workspace. It lets individuals and teams write, draw, plan, and organize knowledge without switching between separate tools, while keeping full control over their data through self-hosting.

  • Authentication:
    Password Auth
  • Access Control:
    TeamsUnlimited Users
  • Data:
    Data Export
  • Integrations:
  • UI:
    AndroidiOS
  • Wiki:
    Full-text SearchInfinite Canvas WhiteboardNested Pages & Hierarchical StructureReal-time Collaborative Editing
  • Databases:
    No-code Database Builder

Last release

0.27.2 (3 days ago*)

Last activity

about 13 hours ago*

70.7k stars

5.1k forks

Funding

SaaS

Also offered as a paid cloud service

Company-backed

Backed by a commercial company

Other

Other or unknown funding sources

Technology stack

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • Shell
  • Rust
  • HTML
  • NSIS
  • Java
  • Swift
  • Ruby

License

Custom

Custom or non-standard license

Not a single clean license — GitHub's own license detector reports "NOASSERTION" because the root LICENSE file is a compound license. Per that file: most of the codebase (frontend/client, most packages) is MIT via LICENSE-MIT, but packages/backend/server — the Node.js/ NestJS server that is exactly what runs inside this deployment's ghcr.io/toeverything/affine:stable image — and packages/common/native are carved out under a separate "AFFiNE EE License" file. That file's own text says any part of that carved-out code "distributed as part of AFFiNE Community Edition (CE)" (i.e. everything currently published, since AFFiNE Enterprise Edition "is yet to be published" per the repo's README) is actually licensed under MPL 2.0, not MIT — so the self-hosted backend server carries file-level MPL 2.0 copyleft obligations, not permissive MIT terms. Upstream's own README simplifies this to "free for self-host under the MIT license," but that is a marketing simplification, not what the LICENSE file itself states for the deployed server component.

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