BookStack
Self-hosted wiki that organises content into books, chapters and pages.
Documentation & Wikis
BookStack is a self-hosted wiki that organises content into books, chapters and pages, with a WYSIWYG or Markdown editor, search across books, chapters and pages, page revisions and role-based permissions. It is built in PHP on the Laravel framework and stores data in MySQL. There is a single self-hosted edition with no cost to download or install; the vendor sells optional paid support plans, not a separate paid software edition.
Key features
Self-hosted editions
- Self-hostedFree self-hosted
- LicenceOpen source · MITDeploymentSelf-hosted
Limits, notes & source
Self-hosted
- Limits
- No cost to download and install your own instance; the platform's functionality ships in this single edition rather than behind a paid tier.
- Notes
- Paid support plans exist (Professional and Enterprise, sold by a separate company) but they are services, not software editions. No user limit is published. Licence confirmed in the repository licence file.
- Source
- www.bookstackapp.com ↗
Pros & cons
Strengths
- MIT licensed, and the vendor states there is no cost to running your own instance. Source
- One free version only: the vendor states there is no enterprise edition and no locked features. Source
- Optional paid support from the project's own maintainers: Professional £450/year, Enterprise £4,500/year. Source
Trade-offs
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- Container deployment is community-provided, not officially supported by the project. Source
BookStack replaces
Products this app is built to take over from, with the vendor's own evidence.
Moving your content across: Documented per product: what you do on the side you are leaving, what this app does with the result, and what does not survive the trip. Every step links to the page that documents it.
- CaveatThe vendor states there is no automated Confluence to BookStack migration; the REST API is offered for partial automation.Source
- ExportIn Confluence: Space settings → Export space → HTML (or XML), then download the archive.Source
- ImportBookStack imports its own “Portable ZIP” format (Books view → Import) and content via its REST API; it does not read a Confluence export.Source
- CaveatConfluence's HTML export leaves page comments behind, and blog posts are not included in HTML or PDF exports.Source
- Microsoft Teams WikiOfficial page targets teams whose Microsoft Teams wikis are being retired.Source
- CaveatBookStack's Teams-wiki retirement page argues for the alternative (SSO, self-hosting, flat HTML, REST API) but names no tool or step for importing existing wiki content.Source
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