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Crowi

Open-source alternative toNNotionCConfluence

Crowi is a self-hostable Markdown wiki for team knowledge sharing, with hierarchical pages, real-time editing, search, and a web frontend for teams.

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Total stars

Last 7 days

1,099

HostingSelf-hostable

LicenseMIT

LanguageTypeScript

Last commitAug 12, 2026

Latest releaseAug 12, 2026

Release frequency10 per year

Contributors48

Stars1,099

Forks164

Issues0

What it does

Crowi is a Markdown wiki designed for team knowledge sharing. Its URL-based page hierarchy organizes content into paths such as `/team/handbook/onboarding`, while the web frontend supports wiki access and real-time collaborative editing through Yjs and Hocuspocus.

The product includes pluggable storage and search backends, including local filesystem storage, S3, MongoDB-native search, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch. It also documents OAuth 2.0, personal access tokens, an embedded MCP server, KaTeX and PlantUML renderers, and an end-user CLI for reading, writing, and searching through the HTTP API.

Crowi is deployable under user control. The repository documents local development with Node.js, pnpm, MongoDB, and Redis, and provides published Docker images plus Docker Compose, deployment, and self-hosting guidance. The current v2 release line is an active prerelease.

Capabilities

#Team knowledge-base pages from capture to shared source of truth

#Collaborative documents

#Enterprise search

#Collaborative knowledge pages from draft to maintained team reference

#Workspace search and answers

Categories

#Document Collaboration#Knowledge Management#AI Assistants#Project Management#Digital Whiteboards

Built with

NNodeJS
RReact
ZZod
RRedis
MMongoDB
NNext.js
EESLint
nnvm
DDocker
BBash
ppnpm
JJest
PPrettier
JJavaScript
GGitHub Actions
CCSS
TTypeScript
VVite
TTailwind
VVitest
LLucide Icons
PPlaywright
HHonoJS
JJSX

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