octopus vs BookStack

octopus

🐙 Octopus - Internal wiki with diagrams for software and product teams (by livechat)

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BookStack

A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel (by BookStackApp)

Wikis Bookstack Laravel PHP Wiki Selfhosted Documentation

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octopus		BookStack
	Project
1	Mentions	312
290	Stars	13,951
0.0%	Growth	1.9%
0.0	Activity	9.6
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 13 hours ago
JavaScript	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

octopus

Posts with mentions or reviews of octopus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-22.

Finding a wiki thats easy to add pages and supports LDAP group syncing
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 22 Mar 2022

I found a gem of a wiki project on GitHub a few years back been using it since then, extremely powerful and easy, and has a lot of features: https://github.com/livechat/octopus

BookStack

Posts with mentions or reviews of BookStack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

15 open-source tools to elevate your software design workflow
22 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2024

Link | Demo | Github | License
What wiki platforms are you using and how is it structured?
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 11 Dec 2023

While I haven't used it, Bookstack is spoken of favourably.
Solution de documentation local ?
1 project | /r/Sysadmin_Fr | 24 Nov 2023
Revision numbers?
1 project | /r/BookStack | 12 Oct 2023

On another topic, anyone knows anything similar to what's mentioned in this issue? https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/473
Welche Note taking/Wiki App nutzt ihr, falls überhaupt?
9 projects | /r/de_EDV | 10 Jul 2023
I am tired of creating documents in WORD. Looking for suggestions
1 project | /r/ITManagers | 10 Jul 2023
System documentation -IT dept (not MSP)
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 5 Jul 2023

We use a selfhosted Bookstack
What do you guys use to save / store resources you find online for later use?
1 project | /r/csMajors | 23 Jun 2023

In a self hosted bookstack wiki alongside my notes etc. https://www.bookstackapp.com/
Someone please create a modern alternative to MediaWiki
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 18 Jun 2023

Are you sure you need a wiki and not a knowledge base like osticket or bookstat? https://www.bookstackapp.com/
What WIKI do you recommend
5 projects | /r/sysadmin | 9 Jun 2023

You can spend as low as nothing and use BookStack for a great wiki experience.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing octopus and BookStack you can also consider the following projects:

d3-graphviz - Graphviz DOT rendering and animated transitions using D3

Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

datorss - Simple search interface around FeediRSS API.

Outline - The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

react-firebase-starter - Boilerplate (seed) project for creating web apps with React.js, GraphQL.js and Relay

gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

react-static-boilerplate - Boilerplate (seed) project for creating web apps with React.js, GraphQL.js and Relay [Moved to: https://github.com/kriasoft/react-firebase-starter]

Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

Documize - Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS

Mediawiki - 🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.

Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.