AFFiNE
AFFiNE is a source-available, self-hosted app in the Note-taking & Editors category, licensed MIT (client) and AFFiNE Enterprise Edition license (server) and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Notion and Dropbox Paper and ships a Docker image. It has 73,850 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Note-taking & Editors
- TypeScript
- MIT / AFFiNE EE License
- Source-available
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 73,850
- Forks
- 5,393
- Open issues
- 668
- Commits, last 12 months
- 753
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.27.4Aug 18, 2026
- Created
- Jul 31, 2022
- License
- MIT (client) and AFFiNE Enterprise Edition license (server)Source-available
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 753 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 753 |
| Latest release | v0.27.4 (Aug 18, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 596 |
| Open issues | 668 |
| Open pull requests | 128 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jul 31, 2022 |
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About AFFiNE
Privacy-first workspace that combines docs, whiteboards and databases, an open-source Notion alternative.
Description written by appsgit. Source code: github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE.
Topics
- editor
- crdt
- knowledge-base
- markdown
- miro
- notion
- rust
- rust-lang
- whiteboard
- wiki
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Is AFFiNE free and open source?
Not by the OSI definition. AFFiNE is source-available rather than open source: its code is public under the MIT (client) and AFFiNE Enterprise Edition license (server), which is not an OSI-approved open-source license. This is a custom license: the source is public, but it adds conditions that OSI-approved licenses do not, such as limits on commercial, hosted or production use. Read it before you deploy. Check the license in the repository before using it commercially.
Can I run AFFiNE with Docker?
Yes. AFFiNE provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to AFFiNE?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to AFFiNE include Excalidraw, Memos and Joplin. AFFiNE itself is a self-hosted alternative to Notion and Dropbox Paper.
Is AFFiNE actively maintained?
The most recent commit to AFFiNE was on Oct 25, 2026 with 753 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.27.4, published Aug 18, 2026. It had 668 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.