Open-source alternatives to Obsidian
5 open-source projects that do what Obsidian does. Picked or featured by Willet; numbers are from GitHub.
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| Project | What it does | Stars | License | Last commit | Self-hostable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A local-first note app built from blocks you can link and query | 46.9k | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | ||
| A private outliner for notes and journals, linked together as a graph | 45.3k | AGPL-3.0 | No | ||
| A note app for building a large personal knowledge base as a tree of notes | 38.4k | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | ||
| Desktop editor for markdown note vaults stored as git repositories | 20.1k | AGPL-3.0 | No | ||
| Local-first notes, journal and tasks stored as plain Markdown files | 4.2k | MIT | Yes |
