LeafWiki
LeafWiki is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Wikis & Knowledge Bases category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 1,200 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,200
- Forks
- 96
- Open issues
- 38
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,080
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.14.2Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- Mar 25, 2025
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 1,080 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors5 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,080 |
| Latest release | v0.14.2 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 57 |
| Open issues | 38 |
| Open pull requests | 14 |
| Good first issues | 2 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Mar 25, 2025 |
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About LeafWiki
A fast wiki for people who think in folders, not feeds. Fast editing. Tree navigation. Markdown on disk.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/perber/leafwiki.
Topics
- go
- markdown
- wiki
- self-hosted
- docker
- file-based
- knowledge-base
- react
- runbooks
- single-binary
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Is LeafWiki free and open source?
Yes. LeafWiki is open-source software released under the MIT 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 LeafWiki with Docker?
Yes. LeafWiki 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 LeafWiki?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to LeafWiki include SiYuan, Outline and Wiki.js.
Is LeafWiki actively maintained?
The most recent commit to LeafWiki was on Oct 24, 2026 with 1,080 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.14.2, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 38 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.