# BookStack

- Canonical: https://siax.io/en/projects/bookstack
- Language: en
- Publisher: SIAX Technology AB, siax.io

- Updated: 2026-10-30
- Review status: published
- Category: collaboration / documents / knowledge-base
- Website: <https://www.bookstackapp.com>

Wiki and knowledge base organised into books

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.

## Facts with verification

| Fact | Value | Status | Provenance | Supported | Sources |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Licence (SPDX) | MIT | Verified | official-docs | 2026-10-29 | <https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/raw/commit/045c6a98cac21ea86906674bb91d01f375460db6/LICENSE> |
| Licence status | osi | Verified | official-docs | 2026-10-29 | <https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/raw/commit/045c6a98cac21ea86906674bb91d01f375460db6/LICENSE> |
| Licence type | permissive | Verified | official-docs | 2026-10-29 | <https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/raw/commit/045c6a98cac21ea86906674bb91d01f375460db6/LICENSE> |
| Commercial use | allowed | Verified | official-docs | 2026-10-29 | <https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/raw/commit/045c6a98cac21ea86906674bb91d01f375460db6/LICENSE> |
| Source code | https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack | Verified | official-docs | 2026-10-29 | <https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack>, <https://api.github.com/repos/BookStackApp/BookStack> |
| Data control features | unknown | Unknown | – | – | – |
| Deployment options | self-hosted | Verified | official-docs | 2026-10-30 | <https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/installation/> |
| Packaging | unknown | Unknown | – | – | – |
| Minimum resources | unknown | Unknown | – | – | – |
| Sign-in (SSO) | ldap, oidc, saml | Verified | official-docs | 2026-10-30 | <https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/oidc-auth/>, <https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/saml2-auth/>, <https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/ldap-auth/> |
| Project health | unknown | Unknown | – | – | – |
| Security | unknown | Unknown | – | – | – |
| SIAX status | In the SIAX catalogue | Observed | siax-record | 2026-10-29 | internal source (siax-internal) |

## Data quality (separate measures, no combined score)

- Completeness: 19/29 facts filled in
- Verification: 18/19 filled-in facts verified
- Freshness: oldest source 2026-10-29, newest 2026-10-30
- Consistency: open discrepancies: 0
- Identity: repo-url codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack

## What it can replace

### Confluence (https://siax.io/en/alternatives/atlassian-confluence)

- Relationship type: Partial alternative
- Review status: Verified
- Basis: upstream; provenance: official-docs
- Verified: 2026-10-29; last checked: 2026-10-29
- Migration effort: unknown
- Evidence: <https://www.bookstackapp.com/about/confluence-alternative/>

### Notion (https://siax.io/en/alternatives/notion)

- Relationship type: Partial alternative
- Review status: Proposed
- Basis: siax-assessment; provenance: siax-record
- Verified: –; last checked: 2026-10-29
- Migration effort: unknown

## Terms

- Fakta bär källa och verifieringsstatus per fält. Inga betyg, inga påhittade siffror. Varumärken tillhör sina ägare och nämns endast för att beskriva vad ett verktyg kan ersätta.
- Varje projekts egen licens gäller för projektets kod; se license.verifiedFromUrl.
- Data licence for reuse: CC-BY-4.0 (<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>).
- SIAX-authored and curated data (taxonomy, relations, assessments, verification records and editorial text) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (credit SIAX Technology AB, siax.io, with a link to the page or API endpoint).
- Third-party fields observed from other sources, such as GitHub metadata and repository descriptions, upstream licence texts and vendor list prices, keep their source's terms. Each one carries its source and retrieval date.
- Text from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0) is not used, because its share-alike terms would extend to our dataset. Only the identity of a project and its links are taken from it.
- The code of each project is covered by that project's own licence.
- Product and company names belong to their respective owners and are used here only to describe what a tool can replace.
- Methodology: https://siax.io/en/methodology