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BookStack

Simple, self-hosted wiki for organising and storing team knowledge.

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  • Dashboard

    Home dashboard showing recently updated books, shelves, and activity feed.

  • Books

    Library of all books in the wiki, displayed as visual cards with descriptions.

  • Shelves

    Shelves organise books into topic collections for easy discovery.

  • Book Detail

    Inside the Engineering Handbook — chapters and pages organised in a structured outline.

  • Page Reading View

    Clean, distraction-free reading view with a sidebar table of contents and inline content.

  • WYSIWYG Page Editor

    Rich-text page editor with formatting toolbar, headings, and embedded content support.

About this app

BookStack is a wiki platform built around a book-chapter-page hierarchy for organising documentation and team knowledge. It includes a WYSIWYG editor, full-text search, diagrams.net integration for embedded diagrams, and page comments with version history, plus OIDC, SAML2 and LDAP authentication for teams that already run centralised login. People who choose BookStack point to speed and findability: pages load quickly and stay easy to navigate even as the wiki grows, thanks to its flatter book-chapter-page structure. Every feature, including diagrams and full-text search, is available self-hosted at no cost, with no paid tier at all.

  • Authentication:
    API KeysLDAP / ADMFAOIDC SSOPassword AuthSAML SSOSocial Login
  • Access Control:
    RBACUnlimited Users
  • Data:
    Audit LogData Export
  • Integrations:
    REST APIWebhooks
  • UI:
    Custom BrandingDark Mode
  • Infrastructure:
  • Wiki:
    CommentsEmbedded DiagramsFull-text SearchNested Pages & Hierarchical StructureVersion History

GitHub

BookStackApp/BookStack

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2.4k forks

Last releaseBookStack v26.09.1(14 days ago*)Last activity1 day ago*Project age11 years (2015)Contributors242

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LicenseMITOrganisation typeIndividualCountry of origin🇬🇧 United KingdomHeadquartersUnknownIncorporated inUnknown

Technology stack

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Dockerfile
  • Shell
  • SCSS
  • Blade
  • TypeScript

License

MIT

MIT License

A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

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