Memos
Memos is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Note-taking & Editors category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Evernote and Google Keep and ships a Docker image. It has 64,080 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 64,080
- Forks
- 4,901
- Open issues
- 34
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,012
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.31.0Sep 19, 2026
- Created
- Dec 8, 2021
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,012 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases5 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,012 |
| Latest release | v0.31.0 (Sep 19, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 5 |
| Releases, all time | 100 |
| Open issues | 34 |
| Open pull requests | 33 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 8, 2021 |
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About Memos
Knowledge base that works with a SQLite db file.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/usememos/memos.
Topics
- react
- go
- sqlite
- markdown
- self-hosted
- note-taking
- memo
- docker
- microblog
- foss
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Is Memos free and open source?
Yes. Memos 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 Memos with Docker?
Yes. Memos 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 Memos?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Memos include Excalidraw, AFFiNE and Joplin. Memos itself is a self-hosted alternative to Evernote and Google Keep.
Is Memos actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Memos was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,012 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.31.0, published Sep 19, 2026. It had 34 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.