Jotty
Jotty is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Note-taking & Editors category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep and ships a Docker image. It has 2,026 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Note-taking & Editors
- TypeScript
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,026
- Forks
- 120
- Open issues
- 49
- Commits, last 12 months
- 879
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- 1.29.2Oct 25, 2026
- Created
- Aug 11, 2025
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 879 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 879 |
| Latest release | 1.29.2 (Oct 25, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 65 |
| Open issues | 49 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Aug 11, 2025 |
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About Jotty
Lightweight but powerful alternative for managing your personal, file based, notes and checklists.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/fccview/jotty.
Topics
- checklists
- homelab
- notes
- opensource
- selfhosted
- task-manager
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Is Jotty free and open source?
Yes. Jotty is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Jotty with Docker?
Yes. Jotty 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 Jotty?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Jotty include Excalidraw, AFFiNE and Memos. Jotty itself is a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep.
Is Jotty actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Jotty was on Oct 25, 2026 with 879 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 1.29.2, published Oct 25, 2026. It had 49 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.