BookStack
Wiki and knowledge base organised into books
- Can replace
- Confluence, Notion
- Where the data is stored
- Wherever you run the tool
- Savings
- Run your own numbers in the savings calculator
About BookStack
A simple documentation wiki where content is grouped into books, chapters and pages. The source code is MIT licensed. Development now happens on Codeberg, and the GitHub repository points there.
What it can replace
Confluence
Partial alternativeVerified- Basis:
- The project's own material
- Provenance:
- Official source
- Migration effort:
- Not assessed
- Confidence in the assessment:
- Not assessed
- Last checked:
Officiell sida: BookStack som öppet alternativ till Confluence
Notion
Partial alternativeProposed- Basis:
- SIAX's assessment
- Provenance:
- SIAX record
- Migration effort:
- Not assessed
- Confidence in the assessment:
- Not assessed
- Last checked:
SIAX:s kategoribedömning; projektets eget material (README, webbplats) nämner inte tjänsten som alternativ vid kontroll 2026-10-29
Feature coverage
The features have not been assessed yet. We show no coverage without evidence.
Three separate assessments
Licence, project health and security are reported separately. We never combine them into one score.
Licence
- Licence (SPDX)
- MIT
Verified · Official source
- Official source, retrieved : codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/raw/commit/045c6a98cac21ea86906674bb91d01f375460db6/LICENSE
- Status
- OSI-approved licence
- Type
- Permissive
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Verified against
- the upstream LICENSE file
Project health
Not verified. No figures are shown until they have been retrieved automatically from the source.
Security
Not assessed by SIAX. No security assessment is shown without evidence.
Operations and data control
- Deployment options
- Self-hosted
Verified · Official source
- Official source, retrieved : www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/installation/
- Packaging
- Unknown Unknown
- Databases
- mysql, mariadb
- Minimum resources
- Unknown
- Sign-in (SSO)
- LDAP, OIDC, SAML
Verified · Official source
- Official source, retrieved : www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/oidc-auth/
- Official source, retrieved : www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/saml2-auth/
- Official source, retrieved : www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/ldap-auth/
- Export
- Unknown
Data residency and GDPR
For organisations operating in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Only sourced facts are shown. This is not legal advice.
- Data location
- You decide: when you run the tool yourself, the data stays where you run it, for example in a data centre in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Inferred
- Data control features
- None documented yet Unknown
- Run by SIAX
- The hosting provider and region of SIAX Cloud are listed in the list of sub-processors.
GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) applies to personal data processed in Sweden as in the rest of the EU. Transfers to countries outside the EU/EEA are governed by Chapter V.
Product and company names belong to their respective owners and are used here only to describe what a tool can replace.