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BookStack

by BookStackApp

BookStack is a self-hosted wiki and documentation platform that organises content into shelves, books, chapters and pages. It is meant for teams that want a simple place to write and find internal documentation without needing technical skills.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

View on GitHubProject website

Stars
19.1k
Licence
MIT
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Moderate
Language
PHP
Age
4077 days

What you can do with it

  • Write and organise company procedures, guides and notes into books and chapters
  • Share a searchable knowledge base with staff or clients, with permissions per user
  • Customise and extend your own instance using the documented options, without changing the source code

Could replace

  • Confluence

Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.

Make money with it

Offer to set up and host BookStack knowledge bases for small businesses as a paid service, including content migration and ongoing maintenance.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Keep staff training guides and standard procedures in one searchable place instead of paying for a hosted wiki
  • Give clients a branded help centre or documentation site for your product or service

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

You install it on your own web server as a PHP (Laravel) application by following the official installation instructions on the BookStack website.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • The project has moved to Codeberg, so the GitHub repository may no longer be the main place for updates
  • Not designed as an extensible platform for other purposes, so feature requests may be declined
  • You are responsible for running, backing up and updating your own server

Who's talking about it

Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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