AppFlowy

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.

⭐ 70,226 stars on GitHub · 🍴 5,192 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Dart

What is AppFlowy?

AppFlowy gives teams a Notion-style workspace without handing their knowledge base, projects, and internal docs to a closed SaaS platform. Its differentiator is control: you can use it across desktop and mobile, self-host the backend, and keep an open source path for customization.

Main components

• Collaborative documents for notes, specs, wikis, and structured team knowledge
• Database-style views for tasks, projects, content calendars, and lightweight CRM workflows
• Kanban boards for to-dos, sprint tracking, editorial pipelines, and operational checklists
• AppFlowy AI for drafting, summarizing, and working with workspace content
• AppFlowy Sites for publishing clean documentation from workspace content
• Cross-platform clients for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android, built with Flutter and Rust

Clear use cases

• Build an internal wiki where engineering, product, and ops teams can document decisions without depending on Notion
• Run project tracking with databases and Kanban boards for small teams that do not need a full Jira setup
• Create a personal knowledge base that works across desktop and mobile while keeping an exit path from proprietary tools
• Publish product docs, team handbooks, or lightweight knowledge portals using AppFlowy Sites
• Self-host a collaborative workspace for privacy-sensitive teams that need tighter control over data location and access

The biggest strength is data ownership with a familiar workspace model — AppFlowy delivers the blocks, databases, boards, and polished UX people expect from Notion, but with open source code and self-hosting options. That matters if your team likes modern collaborative tools but cannot justify putting internal strategy, customer notes, or technical documentation into a vendor-controlled black box. Compared with commercial competitors, the trade-off is maturity and ecosystem depth, but the upside is control, portability, and the ability to adapt the stack to your policies.

Best for small teams, startups, consultants, and privacy-conscious IT groups that want a self-hostable Notion alternative for docs, projects, and knowledge management.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ blog
• 🏷️ confluence-alternative
• 🏷️ content-management
• 🏷️ content-services
• 🏷️ documentation
• 🏷️ flutter
• 🏷️ note-taking
• 🏷️ notion-alternative
• 🏷️ project-management
• 🏷️ task-management

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy.git
cd AppFlowy
docker build -t AppFlowy .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 AppFlowy

Minimum system requirements

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🎯 Benefits:

• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
• Dedicated IPv4, root access, unmetered domestic bandwidth
• Daily snapshot backup
• Free install assistance from the VSIS team

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy
• 🌐 Homepage: https://appflowy.com
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.