BookStack

Product Overview

BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, and easy-to-use platform for organizing and storing information. It allows users to document content in a book-like fashion, making it a great tool for creating and sharing knowledge bases, documentation sets, or even personal notes. With BookStack, you can create books with chapters and pages, search through your content, and link directly to specific paragraphs.

Main Features

• Free & Open Source: BookStack is fully free and open-source, licensed under the MIT license, with no cost to download and install.
• Easy, Simple Interface: The page editor features a simple WYSIWYG interface, making it easy to create and edit content.
• Searchable and Connected: Content in BookStack is fully searchable, allowing you to search across books, chapters, and pages. You can also link directly to specific paragraphs for easy navigation.
• Configurable: Set up BookStack to suit your use case by changing the name, logo, registration options, and more.
• Simple Requirements: BookStack runs on PHP, Laravel framework, and MySQL, making it a lightweight option that can run on a $5 Digital Ocean VPS.
• Built-in diagrams.net: The page editor includes built-in diagrams.net drawing capabilities for creating diagrams within your documentation.
• Multi-Lingual: BookStack supports multiple languages, including EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, JA, NL, PL, RU, and many more.

These features make BookStack an excellent choice for anyone looking to create a self-hosted knowledge base or documentation system.