SiYuan
SiYuan is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Wikis & Knowledge Bases category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Notion, Evernote and Obsidian and ships a Docker image. It has 46,938 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Wikis & Knowledge Bases
- TypeScript
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 46,938
- Forks
- 3,089
- Open issues
- 9
- Commits, last 12 months
- 10,181
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.8.8Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Aug 30, 2020
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 10,181 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 10,181 |
| Latest release | v3.8.8 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 1,036 |
| Open issues | 9 |
| Open pull requests | 1 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Aug 30, 2020 |
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About SiYuan
A privacy-first personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan.
Topics
- note-taking
- local-first
- knowledge-base
- markdown
- self-hosted
- siyuan
- ai-agent
- mcp
- agentic-ai
- workspace
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Is SiYuan free and open source?
Yes. SiYuan is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 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 SiYuan with Docker?
Yes. SiYuan 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 SiYuan?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to SiYuan include Outline, Wiki.js and docmost Community Edition. SiYuan itself is a self-hosted alternative to Notion, Evernote and Obsidian.
Is SiYuan actively maintained?
The most recent commit to SiYuan was on Oct 26, 2026 with 10,181 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.8.8, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 9 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.