# BookStackApp/BookStack

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Repository: https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bookstack
Homepage: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: bookstack, laravel, php, wiki, selfhosted, documentation
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:04:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4022, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 13.0, "n_releases_24m": 47}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 19001, forks 2424 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:27.331661+00:00)

## What it is
BookStack is a free, open-source, self-hosted documentation and wiki platform built with PHP and Laravel. It organizes content into Books, Chapters, and Pages with a simple WYSIWYG editing experience, user roles, and search.

## Use cases
- self-host a team wiki for internal documentation
- organize company knowledge base with books and pages
- replace Confluence or Notion with an open-source alternative
- create public documentation site with per-user permissions
- store and search SOPs and how-to guides
- collaboratively write docs with WYSIWYG editing

## When to choose
- you want an opinionated, easy-to-use self-hosted wiki with minimal setup
- you need role-based permissions and structured book/chapter/page hierarchy
- you prefer PHP/Laravel stack and simple deployment (including Docker)

## When to avoid
- you need a highly extensible or programmable platform beyond documentation
- you want a minimal markdown-file-based wiki like a static site generator
- you need real-time collaborative editing

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: documentation, web-framework, search-engine, auth, self-hosted
- domain: documentation, web-development, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: php, self-hosted
- tags: wiki, knowledge-base, laravel, documentation-platform, wysiwyg-editor, web-server, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- BookStackApp/BookStack (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.331661+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:00:42.602780+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.331661+00:00, sha a5f4b03a0c3f)
  - homepage: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.806305+00:00, sha 93189266a23a)
  - site_page: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.818074+00:00, sha 7ffd1ab1d66b)
  - site_page: https://codeberg.org/explore/repos?q=documentation&topic=1 (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.822302+00:00, sha b1e458d5b059)
  - site_page: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.815897+00:00, sha fe3047f34c81)
  - site_page: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/src/branch/development/dev/docs/development.md (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.827486+00:00, sha b1e458d5b059)
  - site_page: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/src/branch/development/dev/docs/release-process.md (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.830606+00:00, sha b1e458d5b059)
  - site_page: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/commit/35b6f57912cfbc56e4b875b9f41b568aedf5cd71 (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.823956+00:00, sha b1e458d5b059)
  - site_page: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.820301+00:00, sha 75646b933a93)
  - site_page: https://codeberg.org/bookstack/bookstack/releases/latest (fetched 2026-08-29T07:59:45.825660+00:00, sha c4efe8b32155)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.