Many Notes
Many Notes is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Note-taking & Editors category, licensed MIT and written mainly in PHP. It ships a Docker image. It has 1,090 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,090
- Forks
- 46
- Open issues
- 8
- Commits, last 12 months
- 296
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.18.1Oct 22, 2026
- Created
- Jul 9, 2024
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 296 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases9 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 296 |
| Latest release | v0.18.1 (Oct 22, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 9 |
| Releases, all time | 47 |
| Open issues | 8 |
| Open pull requests | 1 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jul 9, 2024 |
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About Many Notes
Markdown note-taking web application designed for simplicity.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/brufdev/many-notes.
Topics
- collaboration
- docker
- documentation
- knowledge-base
- markdown
- note-taking
- notes
- php
- privacy
- productivity
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Is Many Notes free and open source?
Yes. Many Notes 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 Many Notes with Docker?
Yes. Many Notes 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 Many Notes?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Many Notes include Excalidraw, AFFiNE and Memos.
Is Many Notes actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Many Notes was on Oct 24, 2026 with 296 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.18.1, published Oct 22, 2026. It had 8 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.