LeafWiki is a lightweight self-hosted wiki designed for long-lived documentation such as runbooks, internal notes, personal knowledge bases, engineering notebooks, and operational guides.
It’s aimed at users who want something more structured than a folder of Markdown files, but smaller and easier to operate than a large wiki or workspace suite.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Markdown-first editing with a built-in editor and live preview.
- Tree-based navigation for keeping documentation organised.
- Full-text search across page titles and page content.
- Supports images, files, Mermaid diagrams, tables, task lists, footnotes, embedded media, and practical Markdown extensions.
- Admin, editor, and viewer roles for basic access control.
- Runs as a single Go binary, with Docker and Docker Compose deployment options.
- SQLite-based runtime storage with Markdown content stored on disk.
- Public read-only mode with authenticated editing.
- Optional revision history and link refactoring through feature flags.
- Markdown importer for bringing in ZIP archives, linked pages, local assets, and Obsidian-style wiki links.
- Mobile-friendly interface with dark mode and basic branding options.
Website: github.com/perber/leafwiki
Support:
Developer: perber
License: MIT License
LeafWiki is written in Go and TypeScript. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Wiki Engines | |
|---|---|
| Wiki.js | Wiki engine running on Node.js and written in JavaScript |
| MediaWiki | Collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia |
| XWiki | Enterprise wiki written in Java |
| TiddlyWiki | Personal wiki and non-linear notebook |
| DokuWiki | Targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies |
| Docmost | Collaborative wiki and documentation software |
| Tiki Wiki | Wiki-based content management system |
| BookStack | Platform to create documentation/wiki content |
| Gollum | Simple wiki system built on top of Git |
| PmWiki | Offers a simple-to-install system |
| JSPWiki | Built around the standard J2EE components of Java, servlets and JSP |
| Foswiki | Supports the embedding of active and passive macros |
| WackoWiki | Small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual written in PHP |
| PhpWiki | Wiki engine written in PHP |
| MoinMoin | Advanced, easy to use and extensible wiki engine implemented in Python |
| TWiki | Easy to use enterprise wiki and collaboration platform |
| WikkaWiki | Flexible, lightweight, standards-compliant wiki engine |
Read our verdict in the software roundup.
 Explore our comprehensive directory of recommended free and open source software. Our carefully curated collection spans every major software category.This directory is part of our ongoing series of informative articles for Linux enthusiasts. It features hundreds of detailed reviews, along with open source alternatives to proprietary solutions from major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, Oracle, and Autodesk. You’ll also find interesting projects to try, hardware coverage, free programming books and tutorials, and much more. Discovered a useful open source Linux program that we haven’t covered yet? Let us know by completing this form. |