BookStack key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- BookStack (Open Source Project)
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom (GB)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Founded
- 2015
- Data hosting
- Customer-defined
- Infrastructure
- Self-hosted
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Replaces
- Confluence, Notion Book, MediaWiki, Slab
About BookStack
BookStack is a popular open-source wiki and documentation platform designed for ease of use and simple content organization. It utilizes a metaphor of 'Books', 'Chapters', and 'Pages' to make information discovery intuitive for non-technical users. Built on the Laravel PHP framework, it offers a powerful featureset including integrated drawing tools via diagrams.net and robust search capabilities. As a self-hosted solution, BookStack provides organizations with total control over their data, making it a preferred choice for privacy-conscious teams and those with strict data sovereignty requirements. It supports enterprise-grade authentication standards like LDAP and SAML2, allowing it to fit seamlessly into existing corporate infrastructures while remaining completely free to use under the MIT license.
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