Simple, self-hosted documentation platform
Tech Specifications
Trust & License
BookStack is a free, self-hosted wiki and documentation platform built on PHP and the Laravel framework. It organizes information using a simple, intuitive structure of books, chapters, and pages, making it easy for teams to capture and maintain knowledge without a steep learning curve.
Key capabilities include a WYSIWYG editor alongside a Markdown editor with live preview, full-text search across all content, page revision history, and built-in diagrams.net integration for drawings. It offers role-based permissions, multi-factor authentication, and pluggable authentication via LDAP, SAML2, OIDC, and social login.
BookStack is typically used as an internal knowledge base, team wiki, or product documentation site. It requires a MySQL or MariaDB database and PHP 8.2 or later, and is well suited to small teams running on a modest single server.
Install on Hop3
hop3 catalog install bookstack-nixgen
Build paths
The same application, packaged different ways. The default is the one tested most; pick another if you have a reason to.