Trilium
by TriliumNext
Trilium Notes is a cross-platform hierarchical note-taking application that helps build large personal knowledge bases with rich features like WYSIWYG editing, note versioning, and synchronization.
Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.
- Stars
- 38.6k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- TypeScript
- Age
- 3443 days
What you can do with it
- Create and organize notes
- Edit notes with rich text and images
- Synchronize notes across devices
Could replace
- Evernote
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Organize and manage business-related notes and documents
- Create a personal knowledge base for internal use
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download the latest release from GitHub or use Docker for self-hosting.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Part of these stacks
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
