The Best Trilium Alternatives in 2026

Manage knowledge and collaborate with Logseq, an open-source platform described by its project as privacy-first.

SwarmVault combines a local-first LLM wiki with a knowledge graph, RAG knowledge base, and agent memory store.

TidGi is a desktop knowledge-management and note app with automated Git backups, according to its repository description.

SiYuan offers a self-hosted knowledge workspace described as open-source and privacy-first, with collaboration for people and AI agents.

Silicon Notes is a web-based personal knowledge base described as having few frills.

Note Discovery describes itself as a self-hosted knowledge base, according to its repository page.

Memos provides a self-hosted timeline for short notes, which users can later find by search, tag, or date.

A fully open source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

NoteDiscovery provides a self-hosted Markdown knowledge base with AI assistant integration, wikilinks, and graph views.

Memos supports short notes without titles or folders as an open-source, self-hosted app.

AppFlowy is a self-hosted AI workspace for enterprise teams to manage projects, wikis, and data with private AI, flexible databases, and full data control.

BookStack provides a self-hosted wiki for organizing and storing information.

Manage Markdown knowledge bases with Tolaria, a desktop app described by its project page.

Trilium Notes is an open-source app for taking notes and organizing a personal knowledge base locally or through synchronization.

SilentNotes synchronizes notes between Android and Windows devices, according to its repository description.

KeyNote NF offers a tabbed notebook with a rich-text editor, nested notes, and encryption, according to its project description.

Standard Notes is an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app for capturing notes and files, according to its repository description.

This repository implements an open-source alternative to NotebookLM with additional flexibility.

VNote is a Qt-based open-source note-taking application that combines note management with editing for Markdown, Typst, plain text and code, mind maps, and PDF reading on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

WikiDocs is a flat-file wiki built with Markdown and does not require a database, according to its repository description.

DokuWiki provides an open-source wiki engine, according to its project repository.

Org-roam is a Roam-inspired note-taking project built around Org-mode, as stated in its repository description.

Saber supports handwriting in an open-source app designed for use across platforms, according to its project description.

Xournal++ supports handwritten note-taking and PDF annotation on Linux, macOS, and Windows, including pen input from devices such as Wacom tablets.