I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative

In plain words

Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation platform designed as an alternative to Confluence and Notion. It features a real-time collaborative rich-text editor with support for LaTeX, inline comments, tables, and callouts. The software includes spaces for teamwork, user permissions, groups, comments, page history, nested pages, search functionality, and file attachments. It is suitable for teams and organizations seeking self-hosted documentation solutions.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. - docmost/docmost

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Hello HN, I am building Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion. I have been working on it for the past 12 months. This is the first public release (beta). The rich-text editor has support for real-time collaboration, LaTex…

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