Livebook
Livebook is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Note-taking & Editors category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in Elixir. It ships a Docker image. It has 5,893 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 20, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 5,893
- Forks
- 526
- Open issues
- 18
- Commits, last 12 months
- 208
- Last commit
- Oct 20, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.19.10Sep 18, 2026
- Created
- Jan 7, 2021
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 20, 2026, 208 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases9 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 20, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 208 |
| Latest release | v0.19.10 (Sep 18, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 9 |
| Releases, all time | 74 |
| Open issues | 18 |
| Open pull requests | 5 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jan 7, 2021 |
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About Livebook
Realtime collaborative notebook app based on Markdown that supports running Elixir code snippets, TeX and Mermaid Diagrams. Easily deployed using Docker or Elixir.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/livebook-dev/livebook.
Topics
- phoenix
- elixir
- notebooks
- collaborative
- realtime
- liveview
- math
- markdown
- visualization
- charts
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Is Livebook free and open source?
Yes. Livebook is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 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 Livebook with Docker?
Yes. Livebook 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 Livebook?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Livebook include Excalidraw, AFFiNE and Memos.
Is Livebook actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Livebook was on Oct 20, 2026 with 208 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.19.10, published Sep 18, 2026. It had 18 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.