BookStack

Full role and permission system to lock down content and actions as required.

Supports email/password login, OIDC, SAML2, LDAP for self-hosted & enterprise environments, plus social-based secondary authentication options.

Configuration options to set-up BookStack for specific use cases. Change name, logo, registration options, and visibility settings.

Ability to link directly to any paragraph allowing documentation to stay connected and cross-referenced.

Ability to sort content across multiple books.

Public demo instance available to test BookStack with automatic database and image storage reset every half hour.

Page editor has diagrams.net drawing capability built-in for quick and easy creation of diagrams within documentation.

Optional markdown editor with live-preview as users write documentation.

Built using PHP on top of Laravel framework with MySQL storage. Can run on minimal resources like a £2.50 IONOS VPS.

Fully free and open, MIT licensed. No cost to downloading and installing your own instance.

Users can set their preferred language. Supports EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, JA, NL, PL, RU and many more languages.

Built-in image upload and management capabilities.

Content in BookStack is fully searchable at book level or across all books, chapters and pages.

MFA built-in and can be enforced at a per-role level. Supports TOTP (Google/Microsoft Authenticator, Authy) and static backup codes.

User interface available in both light and dark themes, configurable at user level.

WYSIWYG page editor with simple interface. Content organized into three real-world groups: Books, Chapters, and Pages.

Track and manage revisions of pages over time.