File Sync & Storage tools

Cloud file storage, synchronization, and sharing tools.

Memos

File Sync & Storage

Memos is a self-hosted, Markdown-native note-taking app for quick capture, timeline-based writing, web clipping, and user-controlled data management.

Siyuan

45,825

File Sync & Storage

SiYuan is a privacy-first knowledge workspace for block-based notes, linked documents, AI-assisted writing, and structured personal knowledge management.

Logseq

44,466

File Sync & Storage

Logseq is an open-source knowledge-management app for organizing notes, tasks, and ideas in local-first graphs, with desktop, web, and mobile access.

Trilium

37,438

File Sync & Storage

Trilium is an open-source note-taking application for building large personal knowledge bases with rich editing, search, organization, and self-hosted sync.

Note-gen

12,636

File Sync & Storage

NoteGen is a local-first Markdown app for capturing notes, media, and links, then organizing them with AI into editable documents, searchable knowledge.

Blinko

10,872

File Sync & Storage

Blinko is a self-hosted AI note-taking app for quickly capturing ideas as Markdown text, organizing them, and retrieving them with natural-language search.

App

6,583

File Sync & Storage

Standard Notes is an encrypted cross-platform note-taking app for capturing and syncing private notes and files across devices, with self-hosting support.

Colanode

5,015

File Sync & Storage

Colanode is an open-source, local-first collaboration workspace for team chat, rich-text pages, wikis, databases, files, and self-hosted data control.

GitJournal

4,204

File Sync & Storage

GitJournal is a mobile-first Markdown note-taking app that stores notes in Git repositories, supporting privacy, portability, journaling, and user-controlled.

Open-knowledge

3,466

File Sync & Storage

OpenKnowledge is a local-first markdown editor and AI-native wiki for creating, organizing, searching, and sharing notes and knowledge bases.

Flatnotes

3,179

File Sync & Storage

Flatnotes is a self-hosted web note-taking app that stores notes as Markdown files, with tagging, full-text search, editing, linking, and responsive access.

NoteDiscovery

2,746

File Sync & Storage

Self-hosted knowledge-base app for writing, organizing, searching, and linking Markdown notes with themes, templates, graph views, sharing, and AI integration.

Alexandrie

2,326

File Sync & Storage

Self-hosted knowledge base for organizing, searching, sharing, and exporting Markdown notes with offline access, team workspaces, and granular permissions.

Zennotes

2,308

File Sync & Storage

ZenNotes is a keyboard-first Markdown notes app for writing, organizing, searching, and previewing local files, with tasks, daily notes, diagrams, and.

TidGi-Desktop

2,000

File Sync & Storage

TidGi is a local-first desktop knowledge-management and note-taking app built on TiddlyWiki, with Git backups, plugins, and blog deployment.

Atomic

1,891

File Sync & Storage

Atomic is a self-hosted knowledge base that turns Markdown notes into linked, searchable articles with AI synthesis, semantic search, chat, and visual graph.

Haptic

1,694

File Sync & Storage

Haptic is an open-source, local-first markdown note-taking app for creating and managing private notes through desktop and self-hosted web interfaces.

Reflect-open

1,421

File Sync & Storage

Reflect is a local-first Markdown note-taking app with daily notes, wiki links, backlinks, fast local search, optional AI, and file-based sync.

Anchor

1,222

File Sync & Storage

Anchor is a self-hostable, offline-first note-taking app for creating, organizing, searching, sharing, and syncing rich multimedia notes across web and mobile.

Edgeever

1,171

File Sync & Storage

EdgeEver is an open-source notes workspace for capturing, organizing, searching, syncing, and sharing rich notes across devices with AI and web clipping.

Crossnote-app

1,087

File Sync & Storage

Crossnote is a local-first web notebook for writing and reading Markdown notes stored in the browser or local folders, with offline use and Git sync.

Notabase

910

File Sync & Storage

Notabase is an open-source personal knowledge base for linking, organizing, editing, searching, and browsing notes across devices with cloud sync.

Lumina-Note

907

File Sync & Storage

Lumina Note is a local-first Markdown desktop note app with linked knowledge graphs, PDF tools, and an AI agent for organizing and enriching vaults.

Eclaire

897

File Sync & Storage

Eclaire is a local-first, self-hosted AI workspace for organizing notes, documents, photos, bookmarks, and tasks with private data processing.

MdSilo-app

849

File Sync & Storage

mdSilo is a local-first knowledge base and note-taking app for writing, linking, organizing, and exploring ideas across Markdown files with graphs.

Plainpad

422

File Sync & Storage

Plainpad is a self-hosted note-taking application that lets users run a simple personal notes service on their own server with Docker-based deployment.

Kuku

203

File Sync & Storage

Kuku is a local-first macOS Markdown workspace for private note vaults, connected wikis, graph navigation, AI-assisted editing, and encrypted sync.

How to choose open-source File Sync & Storage software

Start with the workflow you need to replace, then compare feature coverage, deployment documentation, project activity, data portability, and support. Repository popularity is useful context, but it should not outweigh fit or the project's maintenance history.

Capabilities and use cases

Across the reviewed tools, common documented capabilities include Connected note vault creation, Local data storage, Graph and full-text search, Cross-device multimedia note capture and retrieval, Advanced and AI-powered search, Notebooks, tags, and templates, Note-to-shareable-document workflow, Cross-device apps. Verify the exact workflow on each profile before migrating production data.

Licensing considerations

Licenses represented in this category include AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, MIT, MPL-2.0. Check redistribution, modification, and hosted-service obligations against your intended use.

Self-hosting tradeoffs

27 of 27 reviewed tools are confirmed as self-hostable, and 17 document Docker support. Compare upgrade, backup, monitoring, and security work alongside hosting cost.

Related software categories

Document Collaboration Knowledge Management Note Taking Calendars & Scheduling Task Management Project Management