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Haptic

Open-source alternative toOObsidian

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

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1,694

HostingSelf-hostable

LicenseAGPL-3.0

LanguageSvelte

Last commitOct 1, 2025

Latest releaseSep 15, 2024

Release frequency2.3 per year

Contributors5

Stars1,694

Forks53

Issues41

What it does

Haptic is a local-first, privacy-focused application for writing and managing markdown notes. It is presented as a lightweight open-source home for notes, using a local database and a Tauri desktop application, with a web instance also available.

Users can run the web version through a self-hosted Vercel deployment or Docker container and access it in a browser. The README identifies note synchronization and note sharing as planned roadmap items, so these capabilities are not documented as currently available. The repository is licensed under AGPLv3.

Capabilities

#Connected note vault creation

#Local data storage

Categories

#Document Collaboration #Knowledge Management #Note Taking #File Sync & Storage

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