Atomic vs BookStack

Comparing two open source alternatives to Notion. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Atomic

MIT

A self-hosted personal knowledge base that turns markdown notes into an AI-augmented knowledge graph with semantic search and wiki synthesis.

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BookStack

MIT

Open source wiki and documentation platform with a books/shelves/pages model — a simple, self-hostable alternative to Confluence and Notion.

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Side-by-side comparison

	Atomic	BookStack
License	MIT	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	2,002	311
Forks	143	37
Open Issues	36	715
Last Commit	Sep 29, 2026	Nov 5, 2026
First Released	Nov 25, 2025	Apr 27, 2026
Categories	Note Taking & Knowledge Management Tools	Wiki Software
Tags	#note taking #markdown #knowledge-management #LLM #local ai	#documentation #self hosted #laravel #php #markdown

GitHub stars over time

Atomic

BookStack311

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