BookStack

BookStack organizes documentation and company knowledge in books, chapters and pages. Teams can maintain content with a visual editor or Markdown, search it and share it selectively through roles.

The actively maintained application is licensed under MIT and self-hosted. It is built with PHP on Laravel, JavaScript and MySQL. OpenID Connect and SAML are available without an additional edition. The project offers paid support and receives sponsorship.

Fact Sheet

Categories
Status
Actively maintained
License
  • MIT
Operation
  • On-Premises / Self-hosted
Technologies
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • MySQL
Demo
  • Open demo
  • Username admin@example.com
  • Password password
Single Sign-On (SSO)
MCP server
  • Unknown: not specified

Data last checked on October 27, 2026

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