5 alternatives to AFFiNE

toeverything/affine — There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use. (73,768 stars, MIT, ui, database, auth).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,000 licence-cleared components from toeverything/affine itself.

The alternatives in detail

• colanode/colanode
  Open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative that puts you in control of your data
  score 5.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 5,187 stars · 832 components · search them
• microsoft/vscode
  Visual Studio Code
  score 6.5/10 · MIT permissive · 194,523 stars · 3,086 components · search them · alternatives
• smaug6739/alexandrie
  📚 The open-source, offline-first Notion, Obsidian & Confluence alternative. Advanced Markdown, multi-tenant teams, OIDC/SSO, and local S3 backups. Deploy in one command.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 3,875 stars · 465 components · search them
• agricidaniel/rustacean
  A cross-linked Obsidian knowledge brain for writing correct, idiomatic, current Rust (edition 2024). 584 linked notes plus a Rust agent.
  score 7.0/10 · MIT permissive · 20 stars · 137 components · search them
• rubisetcie/vscodius
  Binary releases of Visual Studio Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing and various personal workflow improvements.
  score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 14 stars · 3,000 components · search them

Licence data: JustClaw-It's per-repo licence policy. Is AFFiNE still maintained? Check it. Licence details: licence checker. Ranking data from 2026-11-07T02:36:21Z.