SilverBullet
SilverBullet is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Note-taking & Editors category, licensed MIT and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Obsidian and ships a Docker image. It has 6,387 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 22, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 6,387
- Forks
- 520
- Open issues
- 348
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,452
- Last commit
- Oct 22, 2026
- Latest release
- 2.12.1Oct 12, 2026
- Created
- Feb 16, 2022
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 22, 2026, 1,452 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors48 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 22, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,452 |
| Latest release | 2.12.1 (Oct 12, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 78 |
| Open issues | 348 |
| Open pull requests | 26 |
| Good first issues | 3 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 16, 2022 |
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About SilverBullet
Note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet.
Topics
- knowledge-management
- markdown
- personal-knowledge-management
- note-taking
- end-user-programming
- lua
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Is SilverBullet free and open source?
Yes. SilverBullet 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 SilverBullet with Docker?
Yes. SilverBullet 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 SilverBullet?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to SilverBullet include Excalidraw, AFFiNE and Memos. SilverBullet itself is a self-hosted alternative to Obsidian.
Is SilverBullet actively maintained?
The most recent commit to SilverBullet was on Oct 22, 2026 with 1,452 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 2.12.1, published Oct 12, 2026. It had 348 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.