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BookStack

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# Simple & Free
Wiki Software

BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

GitHub  -  Demo  -  Install


Latest Blog Post:
BookStack Release v25.07

## Features

#### Free & Open Source

BookStack is fully free and open, MIT licensed. The source is available on GitHub. There is no cost to downloading and installing your own instance of BookStack.

View the source here »

#### Easy, Simple Interface

Simplicity has been the top priority when building BookStack. The page editor has a simple WYSIWYG interface and all content is broken into three simple real world groups:

Books    Chapters   Pages

#### Searchable and Connected

The content in BookStack is fully searchable. You are able to search at book level or across all books, chapters & pages. The ability to link directly to any paragraph allows you to keep your documentation connected.



#### Configurable

Configuration options allow you to set-up BookStack to suit your use case. You can change the name, logo and registration options. You can also change whether the whole system is publicly viewable or not.

#### Simple Requirements

BookStack is built using PHP, on top of the Laravel framework and it uses MySQL to store data. Performance has been kept in mind and BookStack can run happily on a $5 Digital Ocean VPS.

#### Built-In diagrams.net

The page editor within BookStack has diagrams.net drawing capability built-in, allowing the quick and easy creation of diagrams within your documentation.



#### Multi-Lingual

BookStack users can set their preferred language. Thanks to great community contributors, current languages built into BookStack include EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, JA, NL, PL, RU and many more.

#### Optional Markdown Editor

If you prefer to write in Markdown then BookStack supports you. A markdown editor is provided and includes a live-preview as you write your documentation.

#### Integrated Authentication

As well as the default email/password login, BookStack supports OIDC, SAML2 and LDAP for self-hosted & enterprise environments, in addition to a range of social-based secondary authentication options.



#### Powerful Features

On top of the powerful search and linking there is also cross-book sorting, page revisions and image management. A full role and permission system allow you to lock down content and actions as required.

#### Multi-Factor Authentication

MFA is built in & can be enforced at a per-role level where desired. MFA options include TOTP (Google/Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, etc...) and static backup codes.

#### Dark & Light Modes

BookStack provides its user interface in both a light theme and a dark theme, saving the eyes of those that prefer to work in the shadows. This is configurable at a user level.

## Project Sponsors

Shown are our bronze, silver and gold project sponsors.
Big thanks to these companies for supporting the project.
Note: Listed services are not tested, vetted nor supported by the official BookStack project in any manner.

View all GitHub sponsors »
View donate & sponsor options »



##### Our Gold Sponsor





##### Our Bronze Sponsors



## Try Out BookStack

You can try out BookStack right now by using the given details. **The demo database & image storage is automatically reset every half hour.** Most standard actions are available using the provided admin login but some actions, listed below, have been restricted to keep the demo instance open & available. That said, all options & actions are at least visible to the demo admin user.

**Actions Restricted In Demo**

- User deletion
- User updates
- Setting updates

Demo site url
https://demo.bookstackapp.com
Admin email

Admin password


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## Screenshots

#### Page View

How core content is viewed in BookStack

#### Page Editor

The WYSIWYG interface for editing pages

#### Image Manager

How images are uploaded and managed



#### All Books Overview

An overview of the top-level categorisation

#### Book Overview

A view of the main content container: A book

#### Book Sorting

How created content can be sorted within a book



#### Global Search

The main interface for searching created content

#### App Settings

A view the of application system settings

#### Profile Page

A user profile page, showing their activity and content

## Latest From The Blog

BookStack Release v25.07

A Decade of BookStack

Things I'm Proud of in the BookStack Project

BookStack Release v25.05

Read the blog »

BookStack - Created By Dan Brown and developed with the community. Page generated with hugo, Site source can be found here on Codeberg.

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BookStack® is a registered trade mark of Daniel Brown.
Copyright 2015-2025 Dan Brown.

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