6 alternatives to Trilium
triliumnext/trilium — Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes (38,468 stars, AGPL-3.0, ui, database, files).
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 does not serve code from triliumnext/trilium itself (licence class: network-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toeverything/affine | 7.4 | MIT | 73,768 |
| 2 | lfnovo/open-notebook | 7.3 | MIT | 40,442 |
| 3 | vectifyai/openkb | 6.9 | Apache-2.0 | 4,851 |
| 4 | glushchenko/fsnotes | 5.5 | MIT | 7,541 |
| 5 | agricidaniel/rustacean | 7.0 | MIT | 20 |
| 6 | vercel-labs/knowledge-agent-template | 4.8 | MIT | 1,079 |
The alternatives in detail
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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.score 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 73,768 stars · 3,000 components · search them
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An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and featuresscore 7.3/10 · MIT permissive · 40,442 stars · 287 components · search them
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OpenKB: Open LLM Knowledge Basescore 6.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 4,851 stars · 138 components · search them
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Fast Markdown note-taking app for Mac and iPhonescore 5.5/10 · MIT permissive · 7,541 stars · 266 components · search them
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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
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Open source file-system and knowledge based agent template. Build AI agents that stay up to date with your knowledge basescore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 1,079 stars · 165 components · search them
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