The best wiki softwares, according to hackers
9 wiki softwares recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
- Most recommendedConfluence38 people recommend it
- Least regretOutline10 recommend, 0 criticize
- Free and lovedTiddlyWiki19 people recommend it
All wiki softwares
- ConfluenceRecommended as a shared team wiki where everyone keeps documentation in one place; critics find it slow, with weak search and messy pages.38recommend
- TiddlyWikiRecommended for long-lasting reliability, open-source code and single-file use. Caveat: many find it overwhelming and convoluted.19recommend
- MediaWikiPeople recommend MediaWiki for its wide feature set, multimedia support and easy multi-user editing. Critics point to security risks from embedded JavaScript and an awkward authoring flow.15recommend
- OutlinePeople recommend Outline as a free, self-hostable knowledge base that can replace Notion or Google Docs for most notes.10recommend
- OzBrainA shared knowledge base that lets AI agents and teams read and write the same documents, useful for multi-model setups and business docs; people praise its agent-first design and sharing.8recommend
- TV TropesFree wiki cataloguing storytelling tropes across media, loved for its endless browsing; the main caveat is that it easily eats hours.7recommend
- DokuWikiFree self-hosted wiki that stores pages as human-readable files rather than in a database, and people find it low-trouble and reliable to run over time.6recommend
- Zim Desktop WikiFree desktop wiki that people use for years of notes and snippets, often as a daily driver; a critic finds it weak on macOS.5recommend
- CabinetFree, open source knowledge base that combines Obsidian-style notes with an LLM, liked for fitting Claude Code workflows and shipping HTML apps.5recommend